Achilles and Briseis

Achilles and Briseis is an ancient Roman painting from the 1st century AD, executed in distemper, a technique between fresco and colored whitewashing. It illustrates a scene from Homer's Iliad in which the Trojan princess and priestess Briseis is forcibly taken from Achilles on the orders of Agamemnon. The painting was discovered in the House of the Tragic Poet at Pompeii and is now held in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. The Italian engraver Agostino Carracci later based an engraving on the composition, including it in his print collection I Modi. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/