#ancientfrescoes

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Details of red & white frescoes, Herculaneum.

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: • ARTEMIS "Statue of Artemis against cinnabar-red background. The colour of the wall has darkened when exposed to sunlight." [ MANN Tag ] . 2nd half of the 1st BC. From Pompeii, Insula Occidentalis . Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli MANN • MSP • 08|20 3350X5750 300dpi Part of 'MANN.Selected' Online Gallery [please see direct links below] . #naples #pompeii #pompei #archaeologicalmuseum #insulaoccidentalis #ancientart #frescoes #pompeiifresco #mural #romanart #arthistory #ancientfresco #archaeology #antiquity #ancient #museology #mythology #greekgoddess #goddess #artemis #goddessartemis #άρτεμις #artemida #артемида #artemide #warrioress #warriorwoman #archaeologyphotography #museumphotography #michaelsvetbird mann @museoarcheologiconapoli 08|20 ©msp @michael_svetbird • sorry for the watermarks • part of MANN.SELECTED: . facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1329554957413078&type=3 . deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/76957935/mann-selected (at Naples, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLbXIEGrQVE/?igshid=18u2ng0ul2m5o

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"Ladies in Blue" fresco from Knossos (detail). Excavated before 1914 near Royal Magazines, Knossos. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #ladiesinblue #fresco #knossos #ancientfrescoes #ancientgreece #ancientart #themetropolitanmuseumofart #newyork #museums #ancienthistory #history #crete #ancientworld #detail

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Fresco detail with Quail stacking cherries, and below a second bird, less visible, but perhaps a dove.

Herculaneum.

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Restored fresco details. 

House of the Vetii, Pompeii.

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Observant birds.

Fresco at Vila San Marco, Castellammare di Stabia.

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The House of the Beautiful Courtyard, Herculaneum.

This is one of the things which make Herculaneum so special - experiencing interior spaces which still exist, untouched (save the ravages of time), from the ancient world.

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Details from a fresco showing ancient women - A mother, two daughters and an ancilla (servant/slave girl).

This piece lives behind glass in the museum at Herculaneum; so I do apologise for the reflections visible.

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Rooftop terrace decorated with columns and red frescoes + details.

Herculaneum.

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White fresco, Pompeii.

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Wallpaper fresco, Villa Ariana, Castellammare di Stabia.

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Fortuna, digitally restored by me, and the original photograph from which I worked.

She is in Herculaneum.

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Details of relief in the palaestra of the Central Baths, Pompeii.

Above, a bird with a sprig of flowers (perhaps) in its beak beside a female figure. Below, two male figures, one much smaller than the other. The smaller appears to be carrying a club or something similar.

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A semi-intact ceiling and fresco. 

Herculaneum.

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Fresco + details. 

Villa Arianna, Castellammare di Stabia.