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| The vivid Minoan fresco of the "Saffron Gatherer".

Up to 3,400 years old, it was uncovered in the prehistoric city of Akrotiri at Santorini, Greece.

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Polyphemus & Galatea in a landscape: Roman fresco from the imperial villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, Italy: last decade of the 1st century BCE.

📷 AlkaliSoaps: The Met Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920 (20.192.17)Creative Commons Legal Code: via Britannica

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is know in Italy as (April's fish), so today is this 2nd c. AD scene with boats and fishes from the luxurious complex of Pietra Papa. The ships,without mailmast & sails, are the typical fluvial boats, while the fishes are more heterogeneous

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the Veneralia festival, in honor of Venus Verticordia and Fortuna Virilis. And for an image of seated Venus from the 4th century CE. Found in and now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

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- House of the Deer (IV, 21)

This fresco consists of three One portrays a peach branch; on another the upper step there is a large plate of matte glass, lowboard, with figs and dates. As well as other fruits.

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“Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome.

SCALA/Art Resource, New York: via Britannica

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A frescoed woman with a lyre sits above a doorway at Villa San Marco. Stabiae. As well as other frescoes from the

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Delphic Sibyl, fresco by 1508–12; in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City. Scala/Art Resource, New York: via Britannica

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| A fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries in

Dating to c. 1st century BCE, it may depict a woman being initiated into the Dionysian mysteries. Her direct gaze gives a striking sense of realism.

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- High art meets high emotion with this panel of the torture of Ixion from the east wall of the exedra of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii (VI.15.1).

Ixion on his wheel is marginalised, focussing our attention on the reaction of Juno and Mercury.

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Byzantine fresco in Asinou Church, Nikitari, Cyprus : unbekannter Maler A.D. 1106 : Source: Britannica.

The image depicts Christ's apostles receiving communion.

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A vividly hopeful scene from the villa of Agrippa Posthumus @ Boscotrecase (1st c. BCE): a pale Andromeda embraces her fate: as a terrifying beast emerges from a dark blue sea, windswept Perseus arrive to save the day! 🧵

Images by Author. Met Museum 20.192.16.

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- The fabulous panel from the House of Marcus Lucretius, Pompeii (IX.3.5), showing the drunken Heracles at Omphale's court. The Queen stands on the right, sporting Heracles' club and lion-skin.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8992)

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This beautiful fresco is from the triclinium (dining room) of the Villa Arianna, Stabiae.

The almost nude Nereid appears to be riding a sea horse. Together they are captured moving gracefully.

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| This stunning work from the Villa of the Mysteries in shows a Bacchic rite - the fifth of seven similar frescoes.

Here a woman kneels before a priestess beside a mynaed or thyiad and a figure holding a thyrsus.

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- a Satyr and Maenad panel from the tablinum of the House of L. Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii (V.1.26). They are described as 'embracing'... Riiiigggghhhht.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (110590). Link - https://t.co/q5xImwtL62

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Fragmentary wall painting from Pompeii depicting Phaedra of Greek Mythology. Dating to AD 20-60, the wall painting is part of the collections

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Villa A at Oplontis (Poppea’s Villa) has been on my wish list for visiting for a year. Believed to be the seaside residence of Nero’s second wife, it was only properly excavated in the 1960s. It is held to contain the very best frescoes in the Roman world (1/2)

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from atrium 2 of the House of Meleager at Dido sits on her throne, surrounded by maids and the personification of Africa, as Aeneas sails away in the background. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli!

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shoiwng scene of dressing a priestess or Found in the palaestra of the Forum Baths at  Dated back to the 1st C AD.

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