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🪔 For #FrescoFriday: a Nightingale from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. The nightingale is a migratory bird 🐦, residing mostly in woods. It was rarely painted on frescoes because it was not colorful. It is likely to have been kept as a caged bird for its 🎶 songs.

☀️ For #FrescoFriday: the Street Musicians fresco & the mosaic with the same scene were created after a common prototype dated to 3rd c. BC. The fresco is from the Villa Stabia near Pompeii, and the mosaic is from the Pompeii Villa of Cicero. Both are in the Naples museum today.

☀️ For #FrescoFriday, a fragment with a meal preparation. To the right there is a large vessel with handles in the shape of goats’ heads.🏺 Vessels of this shape were used to dilute wine with water at dinner parties, suggesting that this scene relates to a festive occasion. 🥂

🍭👀 #Eye_candy post. In times of social distancing, it's nice to see people enjoying life - even on ancient frescoes. 🎉 These three roman frescoes and one mosaic depict banquets with friends or family. Sometimes not without some excess... 🥂

🍭👀 #Eye_candy post. These are beautiful & less know frescoes 🎨 depicting women: detail from "Pan & the nymphs" (House of Fatal Love in Pompeii), "Woman with a scroll" (Casa di Fusco), "Young girl" (from Stabiae) & detail from "Sacrifice of Iphigenia" (H. of the Tragic Poet).

🧙‍♂️⚔"100 Rulers & Rebels of Rome". 📒 Day 62. #Carausius (?-293). Former sailor, he was appointed by Maximian to clear the Channel from pirates, but he rebelled, fled to Britain & proclaimed himself Emperor. He ruled for 7 years. His place: 🏛 #Boulogne_sur_Mer, his stronghold.

🍭👀 "Eye candy" post. Some of the most beautiful and best preserved ancient bronze horses 🐴 : Cartoceto di Pergola (Ancona), "Horses of Saint Mark"(Venice), Marcus Aurelius statue (Capitoline Museums), Medici Riccardi horse head (Florence). 🏛

For eyes pleasure: four exceptional gems from the recent Getty Museum acquisition, the most significant of the past 10 years. These gems were never displayed before. Links with more info inside.

These maenads hold in their hand a thyrsos - fennel stalk, attribute of Dionysus (Bacchus). Bacchus turned plant into weapon, concealing iron points in the head of leaves. His thyrsus is called "spear in vine-leaves", and its point was thought to incite to madness. Tchin !