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#FrescoFriday - Beginning the day with this fabulous panel of the torture of Ixion from the east wall of the exedra of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii (VI.15.1). Ixion on his wheel is marginalised, focussing our attention on the reaction of Juno and Mercury. #Roman #Art

#LatinForTheDay - 11 June

"nequitiam fugio—fugientem forma reducit;
aversor morum crimina—corpus amo.
sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum,
et videor voti nescius esse mei.
aut formosa fores minus, aut minus inproba, vellem"

Ovid, Amores 3.11b.37-41

#FrescoFriday - still in Pompeii, this time with a panel of Polyphemus and Galatea from the House of the Ancient Hunt (VII.4.48), discovered in 1834. And one perhaps for the attention of @museumbums

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (27687)

#FrescoFriday - 'The Aldobrandini Wedding', a Roman fresco ca. Early 1st Century AD, discovered on the Esquiline Hill in 1601, reinterpreted by Müller as deriving from Euripides' 'Hippolytos Stephanephoros'. (1/2)

Image: Musei Vaticani (79631). Link - https://t.co/7g5RVCvVUo

The rose had long enjoyed a position as a numismatic marker of Rhodes (see below); while the diadem had long been a symbol of Hellenic kingship, i.e. sole power.

Image: Rhodian didrachm: ANS 1944.100.48620. Link - https://t.co/5Z0E4JRBVq

#FrescoFriday - a bright start to the morning with this fresco of wide-eyed faces from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii (VI.17.42). They are sometimes interpreted as theatrical masks, but the mouths do not suggest that to me.

Image: Parco Archeologico di Pompei (40693)

@RitaEsposito22 I'm afraid I can't say. It may be intended as some form of aegis, but all I see is...

"Steady now... Steady..."

Fabulous Roman carnelian ring-stone, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD showing an artist, holding a brush and palette, seeming to paint a portrait bust... all rendered on a stone 1.2cm in length. #Roman #Gem

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (81.6.48).

Do any of you have that one colleague who NEVER replies to emails?

Fayum Mummy portrait of a man wearing a beautiful gold wreath of ivy, ca. 2nd Century AD. These portraits really affect me. #Roman #Egypt

Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1922.4798). Link - https://t.co/c1gU43AC5s