sep 12, 480 BC - Tomb of the Triclinium

Description:

Date: 480 BCE ~ 470 BCE

Artist: unkown

Medium: Tufa and Fresco

Location: Tarquinia, Italy

Function:
- tomb
- funerary ritual
- a dinning room

Form:
- figures are angular and stiff
- clothes
- trees spring up between the main figures and shrubbery grows beneath the reclining couches suggesting a rural setting
- ceiling has polychrome checkerboard pattern
- figures dancing

Comparison:
- House of the Vettii
- sistine Chapel

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