Roman Fresco Magnets

$7.95 at The Getty Museum.

We have reproduced four designs of delicately painted images from ancient Roman frescoes on magnets made of a resin that mimics the texture of a plaster wall from antiquity. Each has a detail from a fresco fragment in the collection of the museum at the Getty Villa. Each resin magnet is 1 3/4" square. Fresco painting was one of the most popular methods of wall decoration in ancient Rome. A wall would first be covered with fresh plaster. Pigments were then dissolved in water and applied to wet plaster. The…