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/
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Achilles and Briseis is an ancient Roman painting from the 1st century AD, executed in distemper, a technique between fresco and colored whitewashing.
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Achilles and Briseis is an ancient Roman painting from the 1st-century AD, depicting the scene from the Iliad where the captured Trojan princess and priestess Briseis is taken away from Achilles by the order of Agamemnon. It was f
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The image is painted in distemper, similar to coloured white-washing and intermediary between fresco and paint.
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It was moved to the Naples National Archaeological Museum, where it remains.
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