VM_365 Day 4

Is this Thanet’s earliest art?

Following on from yesterdays image, today’s VM_365 picture is of some fragments of painted plaster found at the Abbey Farm Roman Villa at Minster in Thanet.

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Painted wall plaster from Abbey Farm Villa, Minster-in-Thanet

We have over 7,500 pieces of painted wall and ceiling plaster from the site ranging in size from a few centimetres to roughly the size of an A4 page.

As the technique used here was fresco, where the paint was applied directly to fresh plaster, we know that the artist who painted these designs must have been on the Isle of Thanet carrying out the work. This makes them one of the earliest artists in the area.

Visit the Virtual Museum to see some of the other pieces of plaster from the site.

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