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The Trier painted ceiling – quick notes

Seven pairs of flying Erotes, Eros and Psyche, and seven life-size busts (three philosophers or poets and four busts of women) are depicted in a chessboard-like alternation.

© Museum am Dome, Trier / Rudolf Schneider
Trier, lady with jewelry box © Museum am Dom / Rudolf Schneider
Trier, lady with mirror © Museum am Dome / Rudolf Schneider
Trier, couple of Erotes © Museum am Dom / Rudolf Schneider
https://www.vgt-trier.de/tour/museum-am-dom/
  1. The Trier Ceiling: Power and Status on Display in Late Antiquity; Marice E. Rose https://www.jstor.org/stable/4122462
  2. Ceiling Frescoes in Trier https://publications.ias.edu/sites/default/files/Lavin_CeilingFrescoesTrierIllusionismConstantinianPainting_1967.pdf
  3. Constantine ceiling painting https://www.visitmosel.de/stadt-kultur/unesco-welterbe/museum-am-dom
  4. https://www.livius.org/pictures/germany/trier-augusta-treverorum/trier-faustas-fresco/