Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the forty-ninth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
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Visible reflectance photograph Frieze with vines and an Eros in front of a candelabra, lower half of the sheet free activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
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  • Incident light image. Section of a frieze with vines and an Eros figure in front of a candelabra, from the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine Hill
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Album 1, Leaf 50

A small winged Eros (Cupid) growing out of a vine – this motif was found on an ancient frieze fragment from the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine in Rome. The gardens are named after the Farnese family, who in the mid-16th century had extensive gardens laid out that would eventually span several terraces on the Palatine and were richly decorated. Today, only a small part of the complex remains.

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