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Home Is Where the Art Is: Domestic Art and Life in the Time of Trajan
From elaborate dinner parties to immersive garden landscapes, life at home was rarely dull for wealthy Romans during the reign of Trajan. Claire Lyman, curatorial intern for European art to 1800, will look closely at a selection of objects from the exhibition Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan to paint a picture of elite domestic life in the late-first and early-second centuries.
<emFresco Depicting a Couple in Flight, 1st century CE; Roman, Imperial period; fresco on plaster; 28 3/4 x 26 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches; The National Archaeological Museum of Naples 2026.30
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