Art in ancient Pompeii
Nothing can last forever. The sun shines so bright, will sink into the sea. Also decreases the moon, which now shone full. Thus, the storms of your Venus often follows the gentle breeze. Writt...
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Pompeii - Painting
THE FOUR STYLES OF PAINTING POMPEIANA
The first technique that meets in Pompeii, widespread in buildings and in particular in the home, occurs from the age Samnite, ie from 150 to. C. up aell'80 ...
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Pompeii - The Mosaic
The art of mosaics became one of the most typical and successful of the Roman world. The mosaics made from small pieces of equal size made from stones and colored marbles (opus tessellatum), an...
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The still life painting in the Vesuvian
Conference held on 11 December 1999 by Prof. Stefano De Caro Archaeological superintendent of the provinces of Naples and Caserta.
Until the end of the 800 Pompeian painting was studied pain...
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Mythological paintings of Roman houses
Taken from the lecture of prof. Irene Bragantini teacher Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, held October 28, 2000.
In a space of time a hundred years, more or less between 30 BC and...
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The Civil Forum
At first the hole was probably an irregular shape, but in the second century BC, it was rebuilt with rectangular and surrounded by columns on three sides. The colonnade had two floors to make i...
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The Temple of Apollo VII 7, 32
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The axis of the building deviates slightly from the axis of the hole current (the Temple is located in the middle of the long side of the hole to the south-west), which means that the Temple...
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The Basilica - VIII 1, 1
Basilica is a Greek word, derived perhaps from the throne rooms or halls of hearings colonnaded rulers ellenistici.La Basilica of Pompeii was the place where justice was administered, a meeting...
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The Triangular Forum
The Triangular Forum is located in the south-west of the Teatro Grande (2) and the portico of the Gladiators (4) in a suggestive position on a ridge overlooking the plain of origin vulcan...
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House of the Vettii VI - 15, 1
This provides a very precious record of Pompeian painting and is one of the most beautiful and interesting houses in the town. The excellent state of preservation allows us, from a distance of cent...
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House of Menander I - 10, 4
The last owner of this grand house was the freedman Quintus Poppaeus, office building around 40 AD member of a family that boasted ties with Poppaea Augusta, wife second wife of Nero. The fam...
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House of the Citharist I - 4, 25
The house originated from the merger of two houses in the first century. BC that has two atria and three peristyle with a total area of 2700 m2. The oldest part is the bottom one, which overlo...
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Villa of Diomedes
Here we have before us one of the masterpieces of Pompeian architecture, especially in terms of the unusual design of the building. Indeed, though it maintains certain important features o...
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House of the Faun VI - 12, 2
This grand private residence (3,050 m2) takes its name from the bronze statue depicting a dancing faun in the center of the tank dell'impluvio main, which is now a copy. It occupies an entire ...
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Building Eumachia VII-9, 1. 67
The new impetus given by the trade led a lady, a priestess of Venus, the family of Eumachii, possibly of Greek origin, to be built in the Augustan age, the building on the east side of the Foru...
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Forum Baths VII - 5
The thermal baths are not the civil largest in the city, but for the elegant decorations and the good condition of the caldarium and tepidarium, are a must in our visit to Pompeii. The Baths were ...
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Temple of Isis VIII - 7, 28
The Temple of Isis, just north of the Grand Theatre, was built towards the end of the second century BC, shortly after the new arrangement of the Triangular Forum and the reconstruction of the L...
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Temple of Vespasian VII - 9, 2
Located on the eastern side of the Forum Civil, between the Shrine of the Lares and the building of public Eumachia. The layout of the temple is a little squashed due to lack of space. The int...
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Temple of Aesculapius (Jupiter Melichio) VIII-7, 25
III - II century BC We do not know much Meilichio Jupiter, in the Peloponnese, where the cult was widespread, Meilichio Zeus was worshiped with secrets. The cult of Hera or Aphrodite Meilichia ...
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Workshop Coriariorum (tannery)
The complex of the tannery, the only one so far identified in Pompeii, takes up almost the whole block (insula 5). The laboratory where the tanned skin was installed in the atrium of the little ho...
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House of the Centenary IX-8, 6
The original house was probably built in the period of tufa (we then around the second century BC). The property is double peristyle atrium square with two rows of columns located in the front ...
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Dal 29 marzo al 26 maggio 2013 La Fondazione del Monte presenta, in collaborazione con l'Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Sezione di Archeologia, un inedito progetto espositivo dedicato alla straordinaria figura dello scenografo e vedutista bolognese Luigi Bazzani (Bologna 1836 - Roma 1927), le cui opere sono conservate in molte prestigiose gallerie in Italia e all'estero: nel Museo Archeologico Nazionale e nella Galleria di Capodimonte a Napoli, nella Galleria di Arte Moderna a Roma, ma anche nel Victoria and Albert Museum di Londra, che acquistò dall’artista oltre cento acquerelli.
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