'Pompeii archaeologists discover pizza painting'?

Of course, this is no big deal to us ...



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Lesbia parla sempre male di me, e neppure smette di parlar
di me: mi venga un colpo se Lesbia non mi ama.
Come lo so? Perché sono simile lei: la ricopro ogni giorno
d’insulti, ma mi venga un colpo se non l’amo.

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Casa de Marte e Venere. Pompeii

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La composizione raffigura Efesto che forgia insieme ai suoi aiutanti l'armatura che Teti donerà a suo figlio Achille per vendicare la morte di Patroclo. Di particolare interesse il riflesso sullo scudo di Teti retto da Efesto e un aiutante.

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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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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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- I adore this fresco from the House of Marcus Lucretius, Pompeii (IX.3.5), depicting the drunken Hercules at the court of the Lydian Queen, Omphale. She herself sports Heracles' club and lion-skin.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8992)

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Pompeii - once lost in time & where some secrets are best left hidden for what is revealed may prove perilous.
Echoes of Stone and Fire
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Don't miss "Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii" at opening on Feb. 24!

This exhibition explores landscape scenes as a striking new genre of ancient Roman art.

Get Tickets:
https://t.co/PEp9VrDNPM
See you at SAMA!

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TULIPS

series “New Pompei Masters” | oil and charcoal on canvas | 89x116cm | 2020

The "FLOWER POWER OF MONACO" Exhibition in LA Vitrine Contemporaine is still on view in Palais de La Scala. So I will post couple more of my flower series here

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I am obsessed with Liebig Co.'s trading cards produced in the 19th-20th c. to promote their meat extract. Here a Pompeian street with shops (‘Brood, wijn en ojie nij Romeinen’ series) & greengrocer ('Poids et mesures' series).

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Border control.
Sometimes all the action is happening in the border framing the main fresco panels. Where else would you find cupids racing chariots pulled by goats?
From the house of the Painters at Work,

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Little Bruno went to a trip to Pompeii on his day off, he's not great at reading a map so he asks for help from a stranger who seems to know their way around 👀
day 8: travel

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Dedicated a song to each of the Starless Clan Trio.

Nightheart: World’s Smallest Violin by AJR
Sunbeam: No Lover by Jetty Bones
Frostpaw: Above the Clouds of Pompeii by Bear’s Den

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DIE POMPEI DIE!
GO CEOBE GO!

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- Fresco from Pompeii depicting Phrixus & Helle fleeing their hate-filled stepmother on the golden-fleeced ram sent. Helle fell off the ram into the sea and either died or was rescued by Poseidon and turned into a sea goddess. The sea was named Hellespont after her.

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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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At Pompeii by Gustave Boulanger, 19th c.

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