No title: Three naked young men servants, their heads decorated with olive branches, with an olive branch in one hand and a tray in the other

Wall frescos discovered during excavation in Ercolano / Herculaneum

Published in "Le Antichita di Ercolano esposte"

Naples, 1757-1792

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Joseph Wright of Derby - Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples (1776) [2500 x 1775]

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Undine Giving the Ring to Massaniello, Fisherman of Naples, 1846 https://t.co/zOIKF1wQ7S

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Raffaele Marinetti is a freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Naples, Italy, who creates digital paintings, private commissions, books, magazines covers, advertising, comic books etc.
https://t.co/ueFuTkUiRa

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"Naples: a city located in southern Italy. It's a famous tourist spot so beautiful that people say you should see it at least once before you die."

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A particularly pleasing one recently arrived from Naples. It contained an appendix giving the English names for some common plants, and as most were new to me, I thought I might transcribe them.

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The Modesty
(Pudicizia Velata)
by Antonio Corradini, 1752
Cappella Sansever, Naples

It's just a personal opinion, but this may be the most exquisitely sensual piece of sacred art I've ever seen

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- a rather fabulous panel from the large triclinium of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. I love the details of the shadows on the column.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (SN5). Link - https://t.co/ViArjVex6h

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Onofrio Palumbo (with landscape by Didier Barra), St. Gennaro intercedes with the Holy Trinity on behalf of Naples, Oil on canvas, 350 cm x 220 cm (Naples, Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini), 1640-1660

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Inside the alleys of Naples I run, I run 🎵🎵

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'The Castle of Otranto' (1764) by Horace Walpole is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. The initial edition purported to be a translation based on a manuscript printed at Naples in 1529 https://t.co/qXPaGmwKqQ

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Autumn is here!
although it is obvious that it has been here for almost a month...
But it has arrived in Naples! and with it comes the desire to drink a bottle of wine every day~

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Undine Giving the Ring to Massaniello, Fisherman of Naples, 1846

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by Alex Shot in Naples, Italy 🇮🇹

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3/3 René d'Anjou was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples as René I from 1435 to 1442. Having spent his last years in Aix-en-Provence, he is known in France as the Good King René.

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Totally transfixed by the architectural visions and post-apocalyptic fantasies of François de Nomé, a French painter who lived in Naples through the 1610s–20s, and created feverishly baroque visions of collapsing temples, catastrophic saintly martyrdom and white marble utopias

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"View of Naples in Moonlight" (1829) by Sylvester Shchedrin

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"The Gulf of Naples. Moonlight" (1820-21) by Johan Christian Dahl

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