A fresco of a slender fantastical candelabrum crowned by a miniature frieze, on a saturated red ground, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work in The Metropolitan Museum (CC0). The red is the house’s own colour, straight from the source. Ornament, when it is this sure of itself, becomes the subject.

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-00226

As chosen: 12 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 18 in
Outside size	13.6 x 19.6 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
8 x 12 in	298	Excellent	Trimmed 4.8%
12 x 16 in	208	Excellent	Trimmed 6.6%
12 x 18 in	198	Good	Trimmed 4.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 24 in	149 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	139 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	119 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 36 in	99 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	59 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

2,506 x 3,577 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 58, lights 112 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

6.48

Notes

Narrow tonal range (23 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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