#FrescoFriday - A charming still life panel fresco showing a rabbit nibbling at figs. 🐰 From Pompeii, dated AD 40-79.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
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#FrescoFriday Détails de la fresque représentant l’enlèvement d’Europe. Trouvée dans la domus de Jason (paroi ouest du cubiculum) en 1878 à Pompéi, elle est exposée au musée archéologique de Naples.
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Fresko mit gelbem Untergrund, verschiedene Anordnungen von Zierstreifen. In einem Feld mittig ein Frauenkopf über einer Art flachen krone dargestellt, der erschrocken oder wütend nach rechts sieht, rechts davon das hintere Teil eines Greifs. Zahlreiche Risse in der Wand.
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Fresco in the House of the Golden Cupids, Pompeii
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An #Easter #FrescoFriday 👀
The Ecce Homo in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, #Spain, is a fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez depicting #Jesus crowned with thorns. Both the subject and style are typical of traditional Catholic #art
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A fresco of Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, Pompeii, c. 1st c. AD.
A fresco of Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, Pompeii, c. 1st c. AD.
Two frescoes of Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, Pompeii, c. 1st c. AD.
Her name means ‘heavenly’. In ancient art her attributes include a celestial globe and a pointer.
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For #FrescoFriday another First Century Roman War Galley fresco from Pompeii; courtesy of Mary Harrsch. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
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This lovely fresco is from Herculaneum. Like our pet rabbits, he loves his fruit and we see him here investigating plump, succulent figs.
🕰️C1st AD
🏛️📷 National Archaeological Museum, Naples
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What a way to celebrate Friday with this gorgeous depiction of Venus. She appears to glide across the sea as she reclines in a shell. She is accompanied by a nereid riding a dolphin and Cupid shyly hanging back behind the shell.
✨Venus, House of Venus - Pompeii✨
What a way to celebrate Friday with this gorgeous depiction of Venus. She appears to glide across the sea as she reclines in a shell. She is accompanied by a nereid riding a dolphin and Cupid shyly hanging back behind the shell.
#FrescoFriday #AncientRome
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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#PharosFriday
#FrescoFriday
#FontsOnFriday
#FriaryFriday
#FacadeFriday
#FountainFriday
#FootpathFriday
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#ForestFriday
#FerrousFriday
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MALE FIGURE WITH CORNUCOPIA AND PLATE, FROM THE VILLA OF NUMISIA PROCULA, C. 150 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This idealised figure is painted in shades of red-brown against a white background. He's nude apart from two cloths wrapped around his forearms. The only other colour is green, which is used for sketched-in long leaves on the plate he holds in his right hand, more greenery emerging from the cornucopia he holds in his left hand, and a leafy crown around his head. His torso is beautifully modelled in light and shadow, his hands (always hard to paint) are convincing, and he stands with his weight on his right leg, or rather floats, as there is no ground. The artist has sketched him in outline first, and filled the figure in afterward. His form is based on a famous Greek statue, the Doryphoros or Spear-Bearer by Polykleitos. This fresco is a clear testimony of the taste for Greek art popularised by the emperor Hadrian.
This #FrescoFriday, the #VaticanMuseums is serving up naked young men in #fresco form. This one comes from the villa of Numisia #Procula at #TorMarancia along the via #Nomentana outside #Rome. She was the noble wife of an ex-consul, and the villa dates from about 150 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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#FoxFriday
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#FridayFaces
#FrogForFriday
#FrogFriday
#FungiFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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#PhilatelyFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
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WALL FRESCO FROM THE "CUBICULUM" OF THE HOUSE "OF AUGUSTUS", 30 BCE. PALATINE HILL In this rather unclear scene, we can make out two female figures. One, at centre left, is taller and facing away from us, her hair tied behind her head. She's wearing a white peplos and himation, and the elegant line of her neck draws our attention down to her shoulder and along her arm. Facing her is a shorter girl we see in profile, tilting her head as if listening as she looks at the woman in white. The girl has her brown hair in a bun and her white peplos leaves a shoulder uncovered. Her peplos is, however, red-brown with a flower or leopard-skin pattern on it. She carries a silver plate. I hope these two women are having a conversation that isn't about men, but we'll never know.
For #FrescoFriday I present this small #fresco from about 30 BCE, in the corner of the "cubiculum" of the so-called #HouseofAugustus on the #Palatine in #Rome. Two elegantly attenuated female figures stand outdoors in a somewhat illegible space. Perhaps a #Dionysiac scene. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Detail from a Roman fresco depicting Phrixus and Helle attempting to flee their hate-filled stepmother by crossing the sea between Europe and Asia on a flying golden ram. Pic: Carole Raddato. #FrescoFriday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
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Römisches Fresko, eine Frau mit einer blauen Stola sitzt in einem Sessel, ein Mann mit einem Helm mit Feder steht hinter ihr und fässt ihr an den Busen, wobei sie seinen Unterarm festhält und ihn vielleicht auch führt. Links unten hockt eine Frau, mit etwas auf dem Boden beschäftigt, rechts ein geflügelter Amoretto. Das Bild ist stark verwittert.
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I like this family-looking scene.
Mars and Venus, #Pompeii found in the House of the punished Eros. Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
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Un fresco de la Casa de Marco Lucrecio Frontón, en Pompeya, es una destacada residencia romana del siglo II a.C., sepultada por la erupción del Vesubio en el 79 d.C. 📷 Pompeiisites.org
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Un fresco de la Casa de Marco Lucrecio Frontón, en Pompeya, es una destacada residencia romana del siglo II a.C., sepultada por la erupción del Vesubio en el 79 d.C.
#History #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology #Art
#AncientBluesky
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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#PharosFriday
#FrescoFriday
#FontsOnFriday
#FriaryFriday
#FacadeFriday
#FountainFriday
#FootpathFriday
#FingerpostFriday
#ForestFriday
#FerrousFriday
#ForgeAndFoundryFriday
#FoggyFriday
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1st century fresco fragments from Fishbourne Roman Palace, near Chichester in Sussex. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne
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Many homes in Pompeii were decorated with frescoes celebrating feasting. This 1st century AD panel from the House of the Chaste Lovers depicts a cockerel pecking at a pomegranate with figs & pears behind. It’s an extraordinary, vibrant image
🏛️📷Parco Archaeologico di Pompeii
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This fresco from the triclinium in the House of the Vettii in Pompeii, seems to run counter to today’s notions of good taste…
#FrescoFriday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Euripides
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#FoxFriday
#FrescoFriday
#FridayFaces
#FrogForFriday
#FrogFriday
#FungiFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
#PharosFriday
#PhilatelyFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#VikingFriday
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Is this Cleopatra? The precise details of her hair and earring distinguish it as a portrait, although the subject's identity is not certain. Wall painting from #Pompeii, C1st. In the collections of National Archaeological Museum, Naples (@MANNapoli), Inv. 9091. Photo is my own, 2026. #FrescoFriday
Is this Cleopatra? The precise details of her hair and earring distinguish it as a portrait, although the subject's identity is not certain. Wall painting from #Pompeii, C1st. In the collections of National Archaeological Museum, Naples (@MANNapoli), Inv. 9091.
Photo is my own, 2026. #FrescoFriday
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DETACHED WALL FRESCO OF MARS, C2 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS We don't know much about the discovery of this fresco, found in Pius IX's excavations of Ostia Antica beginning in 1855. These excavations were more careful and scientific than previous ones which were little more than scavenger hunts, but the goal was still to strip Ostia of its beauties and place its mosaics in the Vatican and in various churches. The frescoes came to the Vatican Museums. Here we see the handsome but angry face of the god of war, in a gold cuirass and red cloak, looking at us with a calculating eye as he raises a spear in his right arm and holds his shield back on his left arm in order to throw more accurately. He looks like a formidable foe. The fresco has a white background and Mars is standing on a gold pedestal, so this is likely a fresco of a painted statue.
For #FrescoFriday we're in the #VaticanMuseums to admire a beautiful though sadly isolated figure of #Mars Propugnator, the god of attack, from a domus of the C2 CE, discovered at #Ostia in 1858. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Ausschnitt aus einem alten römischen Wandbild: Ein Spatz pickt zwischen zwei Steinen am Boden. Gelblicher Hintergrund.
#FrescoFriday und gleichzeitig Weltspatzentag #sparrow !
Deshalb hier noch ein Kollege aus Pompeji, das Haus weiß ich leider nicht mehr:
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On a black background a graceful winged female figure in flight looks up to the left. She's wrapped around with a fine, flowing pink stole.
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A female figure swathed in pink gracefully flying away.
From atrium of Villa Arianna, Campania, 1st C.
In the Museo Arqueológico de Stabiae Libero D'Orsi, Castellamare. 🏺
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Description from Wikimedia Commons: “From Herculaneum (no known findspot), a fresco tondo portrait of Herakles/Hercules, carrying his club, his head crowned in ivy and ribbons. He's framed by an oval vegetal wreath against a beautiful Egyptian Blue background. 45-79 CE. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (Naples National Archaeological Museum), MANN inv. 9003. Photo credit: Chapps.”
✨It’s Hercules… I mean, HUNKcules! ✨
Celebrate your Friyay right with this elegant depiction of the half-man, half-god, Hercules. This fresco is thought to come from Herculaneum (apt!) and is now held in the MAN Napoli.
#FrescoFriday #AncientRome #Hercules
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#FrescoFriday with this section of the Villa Farnesina Crypotoporticus A in Palazzo Massimo!
A column is painted onto the white and red background, with the base of the column itself painted to resemble shells, though they could also be feathers.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
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Ein geflügeltes weißes Pferd mit einem großen Zier Kringel auf dem Kopf, als verwitterte Wandmalerei vor blauem Hintergrund
Pegasus from Herculaneum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
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For #frescofriday The Allegory of Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1337-1339.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorian #art #medievalsky #FindsFriday
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