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Model of the Paestum Tomb, attributed to Domenico Padiglione
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Model of the Paestum Tomb, attributed to Domenico Padiglione
Cork and stucco
Height: 43cm
Width: 43cm
Depth: 67cm
Width: 43cm
Depth: 67cm
Museum number: M1088
On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Excavations outside the city walls of Paestum uncovered a series of particularly richly decorated and furnished tombs and this model is a synthesis of several of these sepulchres. The interior is adorned with paintings and decoration from a number of monuments taken from the cemeteries outside Paestum. As with the other tombs on display here, this model also contains a miniature burial along with a selection of grave goods. Again, these were based on actual archaeological finds.
Literature
Valentin Kockel, 'Towns and tombs: three dimensional documentation of archaeological sites in the kingdom of Naples in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', in Ilaria Bignamini (ed.), Archives and Excavations, London 2004, p.143-162
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