Frescoes and fast-food joints are just a few of the latest discoveries, but a small piece of graffiti is making scholars rethink the date of Pompeii's ruin.
"We're seeing here the last phase of the Pompeian wall painting with incredible details, so you can stand before these images for hours and still discover new details," he added ahead of Tuesday's reopening. Casa dei Vetti is covered in extravagant wall art © Marco Cantile/LightRocket/...
The first room would be the changing room. You'd take off you clothes and put them in boxes up along the wall. Above each box was a risqué painting which makes some people think the baths were the start of the evenings orgy. Actually the drawings were supposed to make the bather laugh...
The vividly colored wall paintings also include a representation of a symplegma—a sexual encounter between a satyr and a nymph—a frequent motif symbolizing the wild, uninhibited forces of nature in Greek and Roman mythology. Other images from the wide repertoire of Greco-Roman imagery were foun...
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Along with these are the plaster casts made from almost perfect molds left in the solidified ash by the bodies of those caught in the sudden destruction. As these spaces were found by excavators, they were carefully filled with plaster, forming images of the victims as they tried to escape....
Here is the art you will need. Make more than one copy to work with, and if you only have an ink jet printer you must seal both sides to protect the image from the glue. Every printer has it's limits but these should print out the right size. The garden images for either side ne...
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The comparison and the integration of images provided by the two techniques allows the conservation state of both the painting layers and wooden support to be investigated. Relevant information on the painting technique and figurative scene can be obtained as well. The proposed approach was applied ...
Among the many thousands killed by Vesuvius’ eruption was Pliny the Elder, the ancient world’s greatest naturalist, whose death is depicted in an 1813 painting by Pierre Henri de Valenciennes. (Deagostini / Getty Images) The scrolls represent the only intact library known from the classical...