File:Chiron instructs young Achilles - Ancient Roman fresco.jpg

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sconosciuto. Il prototipo era probabilmente un gruppo scultoreo esposto a Roma nei Saepta.
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Italiano: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. nr. 9109). Da Herculaneum, Basilica - L'affresco mostra il centauro Chirone, pedagogo di Achille, che insegna all'eroe ancora giovinetto l'uso della lira. Il prototipo per questo affresco non è stato un altro dipinto ma una statua che Plinio il Vecchio ricorda era esposta a Roma nei Saepta Iulia.
Dimensions cm 127 x 125
National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
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Accession number
9109
Credit line Herculaneum, Augusteum (cd. Basilica)
References AA.VV. Ercolano, Tre secoli di scoperte, Electa Napoli 2008, pag. 255-256, nr. 29
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