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Astonishing detail revealed in these close-up photos of two of the objects that were found amongst the collection of talismans discovered in #Pompeii.
I love the vine leaf crown (of Bacchus?) and is that a satyrs tail I can see?
Photos courtesy @MassimoOsanna on Instagram

Am in total love with this swooping black-headed dove in the dining room fresco from the House of the Golden Bracelet, #Pompeii. The bronze statue—a truly elaborate lamp stand—is from the House of Ephebus, #Pompeii #LastSupperinPompeii

Rather pleasing to read that Ingres was so influenced by the fresco of Odysseus & Penelope found in the Macellum in #Pompeii, that he made use of her pose in his represention of Stratonice in the painting ‘The Sickness of Antiochus’.
Image 1: Sergey Sosnovskiy CC BY-SA 4.0

For those interested the last image is a detail from one of two stunning frescoes from #Herculaneum showing stages of a religious ritual dedicated to Isis. The god is symbolised by water in a golden vase. from The other fresco also has some lovely ibises lurking around the altar.

Goodness! As my counter ticks over the 20,000 followers mark (!!) I was busy tweeting about Roman #wallporn from #Pompeii.
Couldn’t have been more fitting if I tried.

By way of thanks, here’s Mercury the messenger from #Pompeii emerging from the pumice stones & now in Naples.

In my element... Admiring the collection of the Secret Cabinet—created to hide away the rude objects that were flooding out of excavations in #Pompeii in the 18th century. Bourbons were shocked by both the subject matter & that it pervaded all strata of Roman society. #wallporn

The bull’s side-eye is magnificent.
Europa and the Bull fresco from the House of Jason #Pompeii #NaplesMuseum

Stumbled across this, presumably rare, photograph of the painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema on site in #Pompeii sketching in the House of Sallust.
His most famous painting of Pompeii is ‘An Exedra’ (1869) set at the schola (bench) tomb of the priestess Mammia near the Herculaneum Gate.

Plenty of superb owls in #Pompeii but perhaps my favourite is the graffito in the House of the Cyptoporticus that looks like an owl-headed person hunting an oversized chicken.
#SuperbOwl

The garden scene from Livia’s villa at Prima Porta, just outside of Rome, is undoubtedly one of the most stunning frescoes from the Roman world. Such serenity.
Now on display in @PalMassimoTerme

Also apt for #NationalBirdDay