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Nike • Winged Victory 🌿
My take on a fresco from Pompeii. I loved working on this in the last weeks - I am quite busy with uni work (I had a nice but quite demanding Aristotle seminar & I'm writing my Plato paper atm) but I steadily continued drawing :) /1

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2023-03-18

Shrine with the household gods (lares) pouring libations and making offerings in the House of the Vettii,
The snake represents the genius (spirit) of the household/individual/place and provides protection.
This room has just opened to the public

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2023-03-17

Gm ☀️ it’s a good day to run from a volcanic eruption, don’t end up like the people from Pompeii.


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2023-02-02

The sanctuary of a garden fresco from

One of the earliest houses to be excavated, this fresco was found on 30th June 1764 in the House of Diana in the Insula Occidentalis.

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2022-08-23

An erotic fresco of the Greek myth of 'Leda and the swan', discovered in Pompeii. (late 2nd - early 1st Century BC)

In Greek mythology the God Zeus takes the form of a swan and seduces or rapes Leda.

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2022-07-24

I did my PhD on wall painting but the frescoes from Pompeii will never cease to amaze me: a beautiful dove from the Casa del Bracciale d'oro.
On display in the special exhibition "Art and sensuality in the houses of Pompeii" - in Pompeii.

Photo: https://t.co/NQtL9xrhgD

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2022-07-11

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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2022-06-18

A Roman fresco from a fullonica - a dyer's shop in Pompeii. One man is brushing wool. The man under the cage is fabric whitening. The owl on the cage represents Athena who was a protector of the lanaiuoli - companies of wool merchants. 🦉

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2022-06-06

Scientific drawing of Pikachu in the style of James Audubon

Pikachu, ancient graffiti in the Roman ruins of Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius looms in the distance. Photo

Pikachu, collodion photograph

Pikachu, Hanna-Barbera cartoon

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2022-05-28

🪔 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


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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2022-05-06



“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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2022-04-29

| 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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2022-03-04

2 splendid & enigmatic mosaics came up in 2018 in Pompeii. Is this one about the Orphic myth of Orion's metamorphosis, or Herakles capturing a Chimera as he did Cerberus ? (but then what about the butterfly ?)

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2022-01-05

It's good to be a patrician :
Triclinium of the House of the Chaste Lovers in Pompeii.

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2021-12-09

A lararium, the shrine to the guardian spirits of the Roman household, from a villa at Terzigno, We can see 2 Lares flanking a genius or ancestor-figure, and 2 serpents underneath, representing the nature's principle of generative power.

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2021-11-20

It's

These two still life pieces decorated the walls of the House of Julia Felix in Dating to c. 1st century CE, Julia rented parts of her house as luxury apartments prior to Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

🏛️

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2021-11-05

It’s and we’re celebrating with this beautiful detail of a bird by a fountain.

This is part of a much larger tripartite fresco from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii.

🏛 Naples Museum

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2021-09-03

Georgy Kurasov.
Three Graces or Penultimate day of Pompeii.

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2021-09-01

Painted decoration from the 'lararium' (domestic altar), room 23, at the House of the Centenary in It depicts the earliest known representation of and Bacchus dresses in a bunch of grapes, alluding to the production and fertile of the region

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2021-08-29