Word: cubiculum
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...calls "one of the most moving depictions of a figure in prayer in the entire history of art." It is thus the only such group in the world to portray the Jonah story from beginning to end. The works were probably commissioned by an unknown early Christian for a cubiculum. As for the artist, scholarship can only produce guesses; he was almost certainly Greek, or at least Greek trained, and probably pagan. Even the site at which the marbles were recently unearthed remains a dealer's secret. Says Curator Wixom: "Antioch seems the most likely candidate...
...Hearst Foundation in 1957 to give him a lofty 45-by 47-ft. Spanish baroque choir screen, whose 60,000 Ibs. of elegant grillwork spans one of the Met's halls. Only a museum can frame a room as art, such as the Met's cubiculum, or bedroom, from the Roman town of Boscoreale on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Its wall scenes of architectural vistas help make the museum's Roman painting the best outside Italy, as well as giving a sense of the 1st century B.C. country squire's yearning for civility. The private...
...Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom slathered with wall paintings that was buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius, dug up in 1900, and only recently restored by the museum...
...chalk drawing, Prudence, by the Dutch Master Engraver Goltzius; Rembrandt's masterly little etching, Landscape with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); and a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium. Also on view is the Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom whose walls are slathered with paintings. Buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius, it was dug up in 1900 and only recently restored by the museum...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. Air-conditioning installation has put most of the Met's special events on ice, but the Cubiculum, a splendidly decorated little bedroom first dug up near Pompeii in 1900, has been unearthed again after a year in restoration. A new ceiling and a new molding copied from the original have been added...