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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

My photographs of the new Pompeii museum are online under CC BY-NC-SA license on the "Pompeii in pictures" website. They have been added to the pages devoted to their archaeological contexts and grouped together on the "Antiquarium" page!
🔗 https://t.co/8tfUkbzbog https://t.co/zrKX96Z2Oc

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2021-05-05

Trying to shoe-horn in a link to and my Covid vaccination (as only I would do) leaves me with a fresco of a medical procedure—Aeneas having an arrowhead removed from his leg—and enemas discovered in the House of the Surgeon. Yikes.
Image 2: https://t.co/WuoRyJamhM

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2021-05-02

*pompeii by bastile starts playing*

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2021-04-27

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.
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© 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

The restored version of John Martin's Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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2021-04-23

Color version of the professor taking notes back in pompeii

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2021-04-17

"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

Working from books of paintings of frescoes Some painters were extremely accurate, some less so. Sometimes their works is all that is left of the originals since damaged by neglect, theft or destroyed in war.
Achilles discovered in Skyros, House of the Dioscuri

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2021-04-05

the pompeii gay lovers speculation continues to stay relevant and is as funny as ever https://t.co/11vJMMwEQk

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2021-04-05

The remains of stone walls and façades we observe today along the streets of were, in fact, full of colours. Can you imagine for a minute what it was to stand at a crossroad or at the entrance of a house, flanked by many graffiti?

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2021-03-31

lithographs of (ca. 1830-1862). Drawing by Giacinto Gigante (Lithographer: unknown). Love the colours and details!!!

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2021-03-31

Dazzling ancient colours of Pompeii's beautiful household shrines (lararia) - by the brilliant Luigi Bazzani who spent 35 years from 1880-1915 documenting the ongoing excavations of Pompeii with masterful watercolor paintings.

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2021-03-25

A painting from Pompeii showing the sale of bread

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2021-03-22

For there is an issue with ancient Greek because nobody knows whether "strouthos" mean a sparrow or small ostrich-type bird. So here are two exquisite bits of fresco from Oplontis, the sister town of Pompeii and Herculaneum, instead.

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2021-03-20

Can you feel the summer heat? 😥
Made screenshot redraw of our edited screenshot from Pompeii fight in Heart of Surging Flame event.

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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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