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While doing yet another artwork check for CLC Book 1 I'm reminded of a perk of my job: getting my favourite frescoes into the book....

First up, Cupids Playing Hide and Seek...

Image credit

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2021-05-07

The majority of well preserved frescoes were found in in the region around the Bay of It is here that Mount erupted in August, 79 A.D., burying much of the countryside, the cities of and


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2021-05-07

On this discover the paintings brought to light on the site of "La Verrerie", in Arles (France), dating to I s. BCE. Amazing Second pompeian style set.
https://t.co/8lDjZC1Zfp

© Julien Boislève, Inrap / MDAA / CD13
© Marie-Pierre Rothé, Alain Genot, MDAA / CD13

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2021-04-23

- 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)

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2021-04-23

"ramble on, and see, at every turn, the familiar little tokens of habitation and everyday pursuits;"

Charles pictures of 1844-45

Banqueting scene from the House of the Chaste Lovers.
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2021-04-16

☀️ For 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. 🥂

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2021-04-02

Other images included Christ raising Lazarus from the dead (note how how he looks like a regular Roman, no beard and long hair), Hercules and the hydra, slaves building a villa (?) and what seems to be a medical symposium. /2

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2021-03-20

This we present this gorgeous fragment of the landscape of the River Nile!

Dating to the 1st century CE, it depicts a crocodile sneaking up on a boat. In the background, a bridge and colonnaded portico stretch into the distance.

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2021-03-19

It’s and

We’re celebrating these excellent things with this fresco from Pompeii’s House of Mars and Venus.

This fresco is impressive enough to inspire the name of the house in which it was found.

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2021-03-19

Campaigning in Roman times: For a painting from Pompeii that was long believed to show the sale of bread. It's thought now to be the free distribution of bread ahead of an election by a politician in a white toga.

Photo: MANN Inv. No. 9071

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We often think that Roman spent most of their lives inside their own houses. Archaeological evidences & literally sources instead tell us that they frequently enter business, working but also running corporations & even owning factories

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The "Tomb of the Dancing Women" is a semichamber Peucetian tomb discovered in Ruvo di Puglia. On the 6 painted wall panels 30+ women, dressed with bright coloured veils & chitons, dance in circle, with their arms interlocked, from the 5th C. BC

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2021-03-13

Roman fresco from Pompeii AD45-79. It depicts the workshop of the smith-god Hephaestus. Thetis, mother of Achilles, inspects the new armour which she has commissioned for her son. Her reflection is seen in the famous Shield of Achilles.

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2021-03-12

For the figure of a winged victory from the Moregine complex near harbour. The use of light in this painting is just extraordinary - the delicate white lines to pick out details, the shine on the helmet and the face. It is almost luminous.

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2021-03-05

Me trying to get out of and into right now.

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2021-03-05

2021

Aurora (1614)

Guido Reni (1575-1642)🖌️ 🇮🇹
fresco ceiling, 280 x 700 cm
Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy

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2021-03-02

frescoのインクローラーってアナログっぽくて楽しくないです？

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2021-02-21

A last for the morning, with this awesome panel of Dido from the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Dido is seated on her throne, with an attendant personification of Africa, as Aeneas' ship departs.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

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2021-02-12