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: fresque retrouvée à (vers 30-50 ap. J.-C.) représentant des femmes avec un faon. Cette scène est parfois identifiée à une scène de culte en l'honneur de Bacchus. Elle est exposée dans la Galerie du Temps du Louvre-Lens.

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2022-09-16

For a Roman Fresco recovered from Vesuvian ash at Stabiae on the Bay of Naples courtesy of Mary Harrsch

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2022-08-19

Bird Fresco from the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii

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2022-08-19

- A key example of the reconstruction of Minoan mural art from a few damaged fragments, with all the ensuing debate: the 'Ladies in Blue' fresco from Knossos, ca. 1525–1450 BC.

Image: Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Link - https://t.co/b2jGkSonoh

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As patron deity of Venus certainly knew how to arrive in style! Here's Venus Pompeiana in an elephant-drawn quadriga, from the frontage of the House of Verecundus (IX.7.6)

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2022-07-08

I didn’t realise my nightshift was on last night so the palette for yesterdays’ Mars and Venus study for looked a lot different in the morn 💀

Here’s what it shoulda been! 🕊️🚩⚔️💋

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Mars and Venus study for 🕊️🚩⚔️💋

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- As patron deity of Pompeii, Venus certainly knew how to arrive in style! Here's Venus Pompeiana in an elephant-drawn quadriga, from the frontage of the House of Verecundus (IX.7.6).

Image: Antiquarium - Pompeii Sites. Link - https://t.co/tTudwjKREE

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2022-07-01

The Healing of the Blind Man and the Raising of Lazarus: first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34): Spanish
transferred to canvas
https://t.co/YmBxjH323L

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2022-07-01

Ancient Greek word of the day:

μοιρα, -ας f. (moira) = destiny

Roman fresco of Dido abandoned by Aeneas, 1st c. AD, from the House of Meleager, Pompeii.

Naples National Archaeological Museum.

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- Fresco of Venus restored as Roma, known as the “Dea Barberini” (“Barberini goddess”). Dated to the first quarter of the 4th century AD.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

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- Discovered in 1755 in the 'Villa at the Royal Stables' on Portici, this subtly coloured panel is usually interpreted as the myth of Galatea and Polyphemus, though other pairings have been suggested.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8983)

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- Discovered 12 October 1829 in the atrium of the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). A grief-stricken Dido, alongside the personification of Africa in elephant headdress, weeps as Aeneas departs.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

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🪔 For 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.

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2022-05-27

- Starting the day with this gorgeous panel from Magna Graecia, more precisely a Messapian tomb painting from Gnathia (modern Egnazia): ca. 300-250 BC.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9361). Link - https://t.co/AA484fdyHt

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Part of a wall-#painting from the Villa of the Papyri. Four ducks have been hung above two antelope. The antelopes are still alive, and their hooves have been tied. Hunting is a common them in the wall-paintings of and

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“Pane for the people!” This scene shows a vendor selling bread with the same distinctive shape as charred examples found in Pompeii.

Just extraordinary 🍞

📍 The House of the Baker or Casa del Forno, Pompeii
📸 Marie-Lan Nguyen

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A fresco of an angel in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo) in Florence, Italy

© mikeby/stock.adobe.com via Britannica

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2022-04-29

| A lively Roman fresco depicting Hercules discovering his son Telephus.

Found in Herculaneum, Telephus is suckled by a deer as Arkadia, Pan and a winged Virgo watch on.

🏛️

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Fascinating insights into wool work! One man brushes wool while the man beneath the caged dome whitens fabric.

The owl may be a symbol of Athena, who was thought to protect wool merchants.

📍 The dyer's shop (fullonica) of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii
🏛 MANN

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