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29 avril 2009

The frescoes from the City of Pompeii @ the Naples National Archaeological Museum

The frescoes from the City of Pompeii @ the Naples National Archaeological Museum
There are 400 frescoes in total, exceptionally conserved by the ashes from Mount Vesuvius which wiped out the city in 79 AD. Photo: EFE. NAPLES.- The frescoes from the City of Pompeii will again go on view starting tomorrow in Naples with their original...
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28 avril 2009

A Roman mosaic panel. Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.

A Roman mosaic panel. Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
A Roman mosaic panel. Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D. Composed of pink, russet, yellow, ochre, green, pale blue, grey, white and black tesserae, depicting a Nereid or Venus seated on the back of a bearded triton, naked with her drapery over her right leg and...
28 avril 2009

A Roman marble female portrait bust. North Africa, circa 2nd Century A.D.

A Roman marble female portrait bust. North Africa, circa 2nd Century A.D.
A Roman marble female portrait bust. North Africa, circa 2nd Century A.D. With an acquiline nose, shapely lips and small rounded chin, her large heavy lidded eyes set beneath a defined brow, her wavy hair centrally parted, wearing earrings and a tunic,...
28 avril 2009

A Roman marble sarcophagus fragment. Early 3rd Century A.D.

A Roman marble sarcophagus fragment. Early 3rd Century A.D.
A Roman marble sarcophagus fragment. Early 3rd Century A.D. From the corner of a sarchophagus, carved in high relief on one side with a nude satyr, facing right, with pointed ears and deeply drilled locks, a goat-skin falling in folds over his left shoulder,...
27 avril 2009

A Roman marble head of Aphrodite, Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.

A Roman marble head of Aphrodite, Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
A Roman marble head of Aphrodite, Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. Depicted with a serene expression on her face, her head tilted and turned to the right, the waving hair centrally-parted and dressed with a diadem around her head, the elaborate curls drawn...
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27 avril 2009

A Roman marble head of a bearded male. Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.

A Roman marble head of a bearded male. Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
A Roman marble head of a bearded male. Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. Probably a portrait of a Greek philosopher, depicted with a serious, imposing expression, his small almond-shaped eyes set beneath a frowning browline and creased forehead, the wavy hair...
27 avril 2009

A Roman marble group of two wrestling children. Circa 1st Century A.D.

A Roman marble group of two wrestling children. Circa 1st Century A.D.
A Roman marble group of two wrestling children. Circa 1st Century A.D. With one child on the back of the other, wrapping his arms around his neck, and biting his ear, the other child twisting his chubby body and attempting to disengage himself, with furrowed...
26 avril 2009

A Roman marble archaistic kore. Circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.

A Roman marble archaistic kore. Circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.
A Roman marble archaistic kore. Circa 1st Century B.C./A.D. Dressed in a diaphanous long-sleeved chiton beneath a himation worn in a thick fold across the chest from her left shoulder and hanging in rippling folds below, the flattened back with details...
26 avril 2009

A Roman marble male torso. Circa 1st Century A.D.

A Roman marble male torso. Circa 1st Century A.D.
A Roman marble male torso. Circa 1st Century A.D. Standing in contrapposto, with the weight on his right leg, his left shoulder raised, the muscular torso with defined pectorals, shapely hips and a recessed naval, with well-formed buttocks and muscular...
26 avril 2009

A Hellenistic terracotta funerary wall painting. Circa 3rd Century B.C.

A Hellenistic terracotta funerary wall painting. Circa 3rd Century B.C.
A Hellenistic terracotta funerary wall painting. Circa 3rd Century B.C. The painted panel moulded with a simple fascia above and below, and raised pilasters at either side, possibly once surmounted by a pediment, now missing, the scene set against a pale...
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