A fresco of a delicate sacred landscape painted on a deep black ground, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work in The Metropolitan Museum (CC0). Two thousand years old, and it reads like a piece of mid-century design. Black was never absence. It was the stage.

Maker: Unknown
Date: last decade of the 1st century BCE
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00225

As chosen: 16 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 16 in
Outside size	17.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
16 x 16 in	175	Good	Edge to edge

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
20 x 20 in	140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 30 in	93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

2,800 x 2,800 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 18, lights 71 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

12.12

Notes

Narrow tonal range (25 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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