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#FrescoFriday from the tablinum of the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto (V-4-A) #Pompeii. This #painting from the centre of the north wall portrays Mars and Venus on the left, Eros in the centre and groups of serving girls.

#Archaeology #Art #History #Myth
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
kpw1453.bsky.social
Restored painted walls from Lullingstone Roman Villa in Kent. Dating from the 4th century AD, the figures have been interpreted as priests at prayer. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Lullingstone #RomanBritain
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
sapinuwa.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday Heading from the Egyptian section to Braccio Nuovo of Musei Vaticani we passed through a narrow vaulted corridor which has bird painted fresco plates on its walls.
#archaeobirds
A rectangular red plate on a white background, on it there are 2 crested black and white birds resembling lapwings
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
This #FrescoFriday we travel to the tomb of Gaius Vestorius Priscus, Pompeii.

This scene is part the inner west wall of the tomb and depicts gladiators squaring off. It seems reasonable to suppose this fresco captures a fight held in honour of the departed Gaius Vestorius Priscus.
Two gladiators are depicted against a red background. The one to the right is sitting on their shield and seems to be at the mercy of the fighter standing to the left.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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#FrescoFriday - Wall painting depicting Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece. Dated AD 150-200.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Germany.
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In the centre of the fresco, the precious fleece of the ram hangs down from a tree trunk. A coiled snake guards it. On the left, the king’s daughter Medea, seated on a rock, dips the snake’s head into a magic potion to enable her beloved Jason to seize the fleece. Ready to flee, Jason already grasps the fleece with his raised right hand.
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
alisonfisk.bsky.social
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!

Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!

Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me

#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
My photo shows detail from a Roman fresco (wall painting) in a corridor at Villa A, the luxurious so-called ‘Villa Poppaea’ at ancient Oplontis (modern day Torre Annunziata) in the Bay of Naples, Italy. The fresco depicts a small light brown bird standing on a small pinky-brown wooden shelf, against a vibrant red background panel. The bird is shown in profile, facing left, with plummage painted in various shades of light brown and grey to beautifully depict detail of its feathers. The bird is lowering its head with beak open, about to peck into a fig on the shelf in front. There are two further figs painted behind the bird which have already been pecked into. The figs are painted light brown. The figs which have already been pecked into have cream flesh and red seeds.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#FrescoFriday
Fresco que representa a una mujer vertiendo un líquido en un pequeño recipiente.
Data de alrededor del año 25 d. C. y procede de la Casa della Farnesina.
🏛Palazzo Massimo, Roma 🇮🇹 Italia.
#History #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology #Art
#AncientBluesky
Fresco que representa a una mujer vertiendo un líquido en un pequeño recipiente. Data de alrededor del año 25 d. C. y procede de la Casa della Farnesina. 🏛Palazzo Massimo, Roma 🇮🇹 Italia.
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday at the #Praedia of #JuliaFelix in #Pompeii (though the #fresco is now in #Naples) gives us a floating scene of a #satyr holding a bucket of #grapes on one shoulder and carrying off a #maenad with his other arm. He seems cannibalistically interested in her forearm. #AncientBluesky 🏺
SATYR AND MAENAD, 62-79 CE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI This centrepiece of a wall (MANN inv. 8598) in the tablinum of the Prædia of Julia Felix shows two floating figures against a yellow background, though there are hints that an Eros was once holding two wreaths above the heads of the figures. The female figure is a Maenad, a Dionysiac devotee, and her natural male counterpart in art is, as here, the male figure of a satyr. He is carrying her off, but she has a devil-may-care manner in her expression, her bare torso, and her right arm flung up into the air as if to say, "Go ahead. Take me to the bed." But is that the satyr's intention? He seems more likely to take her to the kitchen, with his glass bucket on his shoulder and what I would call an unnatural, even hungry interest in her forearm.
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃

May the spirits be settled and placated and the night sit lightly upon you. This blackbird is our pick for #FrescoFriday and #Halloween
From Pompeii, the blackbird perches on the handle of a beautiful urn against a green backdrop.
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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For #frescofriday the extraordinary 'black room' from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase, dating to the end of the first century BC. It might look dark and gloomy now, but the walls would originally have been burnished to a glossy finish, filling the room with almost magical reflected candlelight.
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
katesfwriter.bsky.social
These frescoes decorate a room in the house of Vigna Guidi, c. AD 130s. It was partly destroyed & buried, like the whole neighborhood adjacent to Porta Capena, to make way for the great complex of the Baths of Caracalla, built above it from 212 AD on.
#FrescoFriday #FindsFriday #AncientRome
📸 my own
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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#FrescoFriday 🏺

Nicely characterised couple from medallion on a wall somewhere in #Pompeii.
Bare-chested man with woman who wears a powder-blue tunic + matching headband. Her hairstyle suggests Augustan date.
From Wm Temple's vast collection, bequeathed to BM 1856.
Head and shoulders of a man with bare shoulders and curly hair, and a woman with light blue clothing and hairband, both looking up and to the right.
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
Costume suggestions for #FrescoFriday #Halloween from a #fresco from the #domus of the #Farnesina, 30-20 BCE: this odd pair of women in long chitons, one in front with a shield on her head topped with olive branches, and another taller woman behind, holding a menacing little saw. #AncientBluesky 🏺
SCENE FROM A CORRIDOR IN THE DOMUS OF THE FARNESINA, 30-20 BCE. PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME A baffling scene from a myth or a ritual. Against a blue-green background, two women are walking toward the right. Both are wearing long plain chitons with red lines along the sides going from shoulder to hem. The shorter woman in the front seems to be wearing a shield on her head, convex side out, which is covered with leafy branches of laurel or olive. She holds another branch in her left hand and steadies the shield with her right. She looks a bit downtrodden. Behind her, at left, is a taller woman (?) whose face is missing, dressed identically. In both hands she holds a very strange tool in black, a straight diagonal line which expands upward like 3 sides of a rectangle before returning to its original line. A dotted line closes off the bottom of this shape, and I've interpreted this as a sort of jigsaw, possibly for cutting the branches the woman in front is carrying. I have no idea what is going on here. The internet offers no clues. But I *can* say with confidence that if you wear these outfits for Halloween, absolutely no one will guess who you are.
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
doccrom.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday - From the House of Actors, Pompeii (I.2.6), comes this mythological panel showing Diomedes and Ulysses stealing the Palladium from Troy. The figures - including Helen - are identified by dipinti. #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (109751)
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
doccrom.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday - Discovered in late October 1763 at Casa della Danzatrice, Pompeii (VI.17.10), this vivid and free mythological panel shows the moment when the infant Opheltes is attacked and killed by a serpent. #Pompeii #Myth 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8987)
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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2nd-3rd century CE Roman Frescoe unearthed during the construction of Termini Railway Station in Rome courtesy of Mary Harrsch. #FrescoFriday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday gives us this #Pan holding a #thyrsus, a #Dionysiac symbol, in this #fresco fragment from the Evan Gorga collection now in #PalazzoAltemps. This is of possibly #Neronian date and is all about fun and revels, rather Saturnalian, with Pan wearing the crown of #Serapis.
Pan, against a black background, holds a thyrsus in his left arm horizontally over his head. A red jewel dangles from the pointed end of the thyrsus. Pan himself looks fun, not dangerous, despite his goat horn and ears. He's wearing a yellow tunic and may be holding a wine jug in his other hand. Atop his head is the golden flowerpot-shaped crown we usually associate with the syncretic Roman/Egyptian god Serapis, husband to the Roman version of Isis.
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
‼️Riot in Pompeii ‼️

This #FrescoFriday we travel to Pompeii to bear witness to the riot that broke out in 59 CE during the games. This scene shows the arena of Pompeii and fighting breaking out into the surrounding streets.
Description from World History Encyclopaedia: “Fourth Style fresco depicting a riot that broke out in Pompeii in 59 CE during games held in the arena involving Pompeians and inhabitants of Nuceria. The fresco was found in the house of Actius Anicetus in Pompeii.” Now held in the MAN Napoli.
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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#FrescoFriday. Fragment de peinture murale retrouvé à Boscoreale près de Pompéi (vers 50 av. J.-C.). La fresque représentant un génie ailé est conservée au Louvre. #LouvreMuseum
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday

#Roman frescoes recovered from Stabiae 1st century. #Italy
#Archaeology
#History
#beauty
#art
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#FrescoFriday - Fresco panel from the Constantine ceiling paintings in Augusta Treverorum depicting a woman with a nimbus and a mirror. From a Roman palace underneath the Trier Cathedral. Dated ca. AD 310.

Cathedral Museum (Museum am Dom), Trier, Germany.
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
annazona.bsky.social
That beautiful #face staring at us. #Fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. #Fridayfaces #FacesOnFriday #FrescoFriday #frescopainting #art #artyear #photography #foto #photo #ancientart #travel #history #archaeology #anzaa #eastcoastkin
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
kpw1453.bsky.social
Fragments of painted wall plaster from a Roman villa site at Hunsbury in Northamptonshire. Now part of the collections at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain #Hunsbury #Northampton
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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#frescofriday A fresco in Cardinal Bibbiena's Loggetta by Raphael's workshop (1516) showcasing strong knowledge of classical antiquity & its contemporary interpretation.

🎬 RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT, "Strongly recommended " - Paul Joannides
▶️ ideasroadshow.com/raphael/

🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky
October 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
🌿Villa of Livia🌷 is our pick for #FrescoFriday.

Now housed in the Palazzo Massimo, this extraordinary fresco shows all kinds of plants in bloom or with fruit at the peak of ripeness. Birds can be seen amongst the foliage like in this detail.

#AncientRome
Image: a white bird is partially obscured by a bush. There’s a glimpse of orange fruit overhead and plenty of red and pink flowers in the foreground.
October 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM