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#BlueMonday
Leda and the swan myth on azulejos tiles at @PousadasPRT Palacio de Estoi #Algarve #Portugal
From the same room as the fresco of the young girl in regio V at #pompeii Is this painting in the House with Garden on Vicolo dei Balcone
The classical inspired gardens of Palacio d’Estoi #Portugal are a delight. An azulejo of Leda & the swan set amongst box hedges, bucolic scenes & fountains with views over the algarve to the Atlantic Ocean.
Tombstone of a #Roman Asturian cavalryman from Ribchester #Lancashire and it’s likely original colour. The mixing of people’s from Spain, above, Hungary (Sarmatia) and Syria (Aelius Antoninus from Melitenis on the Euphrates) with the Celtic Brigantes is an amazing melting pot.
#OTD #AlexandertheGreat died in 323bce. The painting from 1644 by Pietro da Cortona shows Alexander defeating Darius III at the battle of Issus which hangs in the Capitoline Museum #Rome
A fanciful “Discovering the ruins of palmyra” #Syria by Gavin Hamilton 1758 in the @NatGalleriesSco - #Edinburgh following James Dawkins and Robert Woods visit in 1751.
The Villa Farnesina # Rome has a room - actually under a stair case - layed out with bright pompeian frescos, painted in 1861 -63 for the then owner of the house the Spanish Duke of Ripalta