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Happy Birthday to the wonderful Dr Sophie Hay 🥳
aka Sophe from created by based on Dr Hay’s excavations at Pompeii, and lovingly drawn by me ❤️

Have a lovely day matey!

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2021-09-15

"House of Ceii". The grand fresco (my fav) with wild animals hunting at the Nile Delta was restored to its colorful former glory. Painted on the garden's back wall it expanded the size of the area and evoked an idyllic atmosphere.

https://t.co/LMKKnHjy8w

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2021-08-27

thinkin about,, loki freeing the goats in pompeii,, (also tried testing out a new brush)

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2021-06-19

- still in Pompeii, this time with a panel of Polyphemus and Galatea from the House of the Ancient Hunt (VII.4.48), discovered in 1834. And one perhaps for the attention of

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (27687)

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2021-05-28

Taking all the known building perimeters of Pompeii, a computer fills in the rest. What a city using only one story buildings where everyone is less than ten minutes walk from the open countryside could look like, at a population density greater than than that of London today.

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2021-05-14

“The Late-Night Creature Feature in Pompeii, Indiana”, an r/ written by MCsinister765, and read by ;)

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2021-03-06

❤️Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is my final Valentine, Eros riding a Crab, based on a fresco from the House of the Vetii in Pompeii, and drawn just for my husband, who just seriously *loves* crabs. ❤️

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2021-02-14

Aquatints engraved by Paul Fumagalli from 1821-1825
1. Vue de la Basilique de coutè du Foro a Pompei
2. "Vue du Teatre tragique a Pompei"
3. Vue de la Basilique de coutè du Foro a Pompei
Beautuful atmospheric views.
https://t.co/e5F8B2cSed

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2020-12-16

Fresco from Italy - Wall painting with Hercules fighting a lion.

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2020-12-15

Yet another fresco from Pompeii, now at . It shows two teenage girls, one of them reading attentively the open polyptych, and at the same time thoughtfully touching her lips by the stylus. A curious friend looks from behind her shoulder. 1st century AD.

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2020-11-11

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov, !799 - 1852, Russian Painter, The Last Day of Pompeii, Detail

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2020-09-13

Villa dei Misteri, is a well-preserved suburban ancient Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy, famous for the series of exquisite frescos in one room, which are usually thought to show the initiation of a young woman into a Greco-Roman mystery cult.

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2020-07-15

Pompeii, in the footsteps of the Romans

A really cool educational series in 12 short movies to discover the lifestyle of the Romans through the example of Pompeii. - in French.

https://t.co/hWxKapX3rh

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2020-03-31

These paintings from & remind me of how essential & were for the ancient even at home, like we all are now. A kind of of the ca. 2000 years ago! 😊

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2020-03-30

one of my ocs for a friend's rp!! she's a 2,000 year old immortal who discovered her immortality when she and her wife did NOT die in Pompeii, now they own an estate in italy and commit tax evasion.

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2019-08-07

Rather pleasing to read that Ingres was so influenced by the fresco of Odysseus & Penelope found in the Macellum in 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

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2019-05-20

Scene of worship in an idealized Egyptian landscape. Fresco of the Temple of Isis in preserved in .

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2019-02-19

Roman fresco of a laundry. When dry, clothes were brushed and hung on a vessel of basket-work. From shop of Veranius Hypsaeus Pompeii, Italy

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2017-09-04

Ancient Roman fresco from the "House of Sirico" in Pompeii, Italy;1st century. Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples)

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2016-09-02