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Fascinating artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city doomed and buried by Mount Vesuvius’s deadly eruption in AD79.. The most impressive discovery is ...
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.
An ancient figure dubbed “Pompeii’s Unluckiest Man” will likely need a new nickname, notes the New York Times.. The man initially earned the title when archaeologists found yet another ...
According to the painter's widow Sylvia Willink , the other men are also self-portraits: to the left is Willink as a young man, in the middle as he imagined himself in his middle age, and to the right as an old man. [5] Willink painted Late Visitors to Pompeii with oil on canvas in 1931. It has the dimensions 92 cm × 142 cm (36 in × 56 in).
After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy.
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Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.
The graffiti within the brothel included both texts and images as well as death notices, poems, etchings, greetings, and compliments. [6] The Lupanar's graffiti was considered a multi-sensory experience. Because much of the Pompeii population was not completely literate, graffiti was an intentionally interactive experience for all visitors.