# frescofriday

🪔 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

☀️ For the Street Musicians fresco & the mosaic with the same scene were created after a common prototype dated to 3rd c. BC. The fresco is from the Villa Stabia near Pompeii, and the mosaic is from the Pompeii Villa of Cicero. Both are in the Naples museum today.

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2021-09-25