Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Section of wall and floor with double row of columns; from small room near the summer triclinium. This decoration is composed exclusively of architectural elements. A colonnade of pilasters is shown in front of a wall that is decorated with a cornice upheld by sirens and with a painted imitation polychrome marble revetment. The Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale: A Virtual Tour

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at BoscorealeWall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at BoscorealeWall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at BoscorealeWall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at BoscorealeWall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.