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The Aldobrandini Wedding (detail).

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2021-07-30

- it's another day for enjoying the garden, so here's a panel of the 'Garden Fresco' from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii (VI.17.42). The details of the birds are exquisite.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (40690)

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2021-07-23

- oh sure, it looks like a peaceful way to start the day, but we all know Zeus is up to some bullshit! A panel showing Europa and the Bull, from the House of Jason, Pompeii (IX.5.18).

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (111475)

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2021-07-09

Today we've chosen this stunning depiction of a Bacchic rite from the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii - 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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2021-07-02

The Laestrygonians throwing rocks at Odysseus' ships (from the fourth panel of the 'Odyssey Landscapes'). Vatican Museums, Rome. 60–40 B.C.

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2021-07-02

Back to Roman (Barcino) for This colorful depiction of a man on a horse, perhaps a military commander, is reminiscent of the central figure in the Ludovisi sarcophagus, below. Note the stylistic details on his tunic.

Museum of the City of Barcelona.

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2021-07-02

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This wall painting from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor dates to c. 50 BCE and depicts a woman holding a shield.

She is likely a seer predicting the birth of a future king, with his image appearing on the shield.

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2021-06-18

- Beginning the day with this fabulous 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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2021-06-18

This gorgeous Maenad appears in a diaphanous dress (maybe silk!) which is as revealing as it is flowing.

She holds the distinctive thyrsus rod of Dionysus.

This Roman fresco is from the Casa del Naviglio in Pompeii.

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2021-06-18



The fertility tree (1265)
A tree with dozens of penises hanging from it. A crowd of women waits for them to fall and two of them are clearly fighting over one in particular

Fresco. Massa Marittima 🇮🇹

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2021-06-18

For a marvellous wall painting depicting Cupid and Pan fighting while watched by Silenus. The fight between Cupid and Pan is commonly interpreted as the conflict between love and sexual desire.
From the House of Meleager, Pompeii. 1/2

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2021-06-11

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In memory of Jacopo Robusti
called Tintoretto (1518-94) 🎨🇮🇹

"Allegoria della Musica"
image © Masterpieces of Art

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2021-05-31

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Apollo and the Muses and related stories

Ceiling fresco
Tommaso Conca (1734-1822) 🖌️🇮🇹
Vatican Museums, Vatican City

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2021-05-29

It's Today we've chosen the Punishment of Ixion!

This stunning fresco was found in the House of the Vettii in Mercury is in the centre between Juno, Iris and Vulcanus. Nephele is at his feet and Ixion is tied to the wheel.

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2021-05-28

- 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

For a representation of Hermaphroditus wrapping a band of cloth around the chest while looking in a mirror held by Cupid. Dating around 50 AD.

Photo: Landesmuseum Württemberg

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2021-05-14

For painted sarcophagus from ~400 BCE, encaustic on marble.
The border of a lid is decorated with a repeating sequence of myrtle & flower branches. In the pediment scene with the conical funerary monument (tymbos), 2 women on the right, 2 men on the left.

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2021-05-14

- 'The Aldobrandini Wedding', a Roman fresco ca. Early 1st Century AD, discovered on the Esquiline Hill in 1601, reinterpreted by Müller as deriving from Euripides' 'Hippolytos Stephanephoros'. (1/2)

Image: Musei Vaticani (79631). Link - https://t.co/7g5RVCvVUo

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2021-05-14

This we present this touching portrait of two young Roman woman.

Dating to the 1st century CE, this fragment resides with the .

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2021-05-07