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Portrait of Terentius Neo and his wife, from Pompeii, c. AD 50. The Portrait of Terentius Neo is a Roman fresco, created circa 50 AD, [1] depicting a couple holding objects important to literacy. It was found in Pompeii in the House of Terentius Neo in Regio 7, Insula 2, 6, [2] and is now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
Roman fresco with a banquet scene from the Casa dei Casti Amanti, Pompeii The Pompeian Styles are four periods which are distinguished in ancient Roman mural painting.They were originally delineated and described by the German archaeologist August Mau (1840–1909) from the excavation of wall paintings at Pompeii, which is one of the largest groups of surviving Roman frescoes.
Punishment of Ixion, House of the Vettii, Pompeii Painting in ancient Rome is a rather poorly understood aspect of Roman art, as there are few survivals, which are mostly wall-paintings from Pompeii, Herculaneum and other sites buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, where many decorative wall paintings were preserved under the ashes and hardened lava.
English: "Pompeii - Painting tiles and ornaments in the House of Actaeon". Identifier: pompeianaedifice00gell (find matches) Title: Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii
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Venus was the divine protector of Pompeii, and featured in many frescoes around the city. [15] The goddess of love, sex, and fertility, Venus was closely associated with eroticism and prostitution in ancient Rome. [16] The mural of Venus from Pompeii may have been a Roman copy of the then famous painting by Apelles which Lucian mentioned ...
English: Identifier: pompeianaedifice00gell (find matches) Title: Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii Year: 1817 Authors: Gell, William ...