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Landscape on Black Ground
A sacred landscape floating on pure black — the most modern-looking wall in antiquity.
What
A fresco of a delicate sacred landscape painted on a deep black ground, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase.
Why
A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work in The Metropolitan Museum (CC0).
Notice
Two thousand years old, and it reads like a piece of mid-century design.
“Black was never absence. It was the stage.”
Format
The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.
Sized to protect print quality — this source supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$39.00
Honesty
ReproductionA faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 20.192.10.
- Kind
- reproduction
- Era
- Roman, Pompeian, last decade of the 1st century BCE
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — a work of antiquity (Pompeii / the Greek vase canon). Cleared by open-access-registrar on 2026-07-18. The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access (CC0). isPublicDomain:true; accession 20.192.10; direct-fetch confirmed 2026-07-18.
