#palazzoMassimo
For #ReliefWednesday, a magnificent #jasper #intaglio depicting #Athena Parthenos in profile, in #palazzoMassimo. A tiny signature in Greek running vertically behind her helmet names the artist as one Aspasios. The artist took inspiration from the great statue in the #Parthenon. #AncientBluesky 🏺
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
#FrescoFriday shows us a tender maternal scene of the care of the Holy Child. Yes, it's the infant #Dionysus in the care of the nymphs of Mt Nysa, into whose care #Zeus consigned the baby, from Cubiculum B of the #domus of the #Farnesina, 30-20 BCE, in #palazzoMassimo. #AncientBluesky 🏺
December 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Détails d’une fresque de la villa de Livie (épouse d’Auguste) à Prima Porta près de Rome. La fresque est conservée au Palazzo Massimo alle Terme à Rome. #palazzomassimo
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
#FrescoFriday returns us to the #Augustan #domus of the #Farnesina, whose surviving #fresco work is in #PalazzoMassimo alle #Terme in #Rome. Here we meet two figures of #Greek #philosophy famous in antiquity, the consciously shameless #Cynic couple #Crates and #Hipparchia. #AncientBluesky 🏺
September 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Portonaccio Sarcophagus
Fnd 1931 #Rome
180-190AD
'Roman Sarcophagi: Warfare, Myth, Theatre, Nature' article
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#roman #sarcophagus #archaeology #ancient #art #antiqvvs
June 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
For #mosaicMonday another fine piece from the Museo Nazionale at #PalazzoMassimo in #Rome - this a #Nile scene with a rather splendid #hippo!
April 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Another gorgeous mosaic from the #PalazzoMassimo in #Rome
#mosaicMonday
March 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Very late but it is still #mosaicMonday so here’s a figure of #Nike from a 1st century mosaic in #Rome at the #PalazzoMassimo
March 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
For #MosaicMonday, a realistic impression in the medium of mosaic that perfectly captures my expressions over the last few weeks.

Two panels from a coffered floor mosaic depicting Dionysian masks, from a Roman villa excavated in Tusculum. 🏺 #ancientbluesky

1st c. CE, #PalazzoMassimo, Rome. 📸 me
February 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
For #ReliefWednesday, this odd fragment with two men clearing reeds in a marsh. They each have a gladius (sword) and sandals tied at the ankles (caligae): Roman soldiers. Probably from a now-vanished public monument celebrating military operations at the edge of the empire. 🏺

#PalazzoMassimo 📸 me
February 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This fresco panel from the ancient Roman villa known as the Casa della Farnesina seems to copy the Greek artistic style of a pinax painted on a marble slab. A delicately rendered woman appears to pour perfume from an aryballos into a slim amphoriskos. 🏺

Late 1st c. BCE. #PalazzoMassimo
📸 me
February 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Vaches romaines #palazzomassimo
January 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Détail d’une fresque dans la Villa Livia #roma #palazzomassimo
January 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
December 21, 2024 at 11:35 AM
For #SarcophagusSaturday we return to #PalazzoMassimo to be dazzled by the #sarcophagus of a military man, perhaps one Aulus Iulius Pompilius, who died in #MarcusAurelius' wars against the #Marcomanni and #Quadi tribes. Pressures on the different ethnic groups in central #Europe strained the border.
December 7, 2024 at 6:37 PM
© 📷 Rick Ehling 10/16/2024 #caturday 🐈‍⬛ #art #bronze #decorativeart #Rome 🇮🇹 #MuseoNazionaleRomano #PalazzoMassimo
December 7, 2024 at 12:08 PM
We tire of fighting
Only after battles
are already lost
© Rick Ehling ✍️11/21/2024 📷10/16/2024 #senryū #senryūsunday #ekphrastic #poetry #BoxeratRest #TermeBoxer 🇬🇷 #Hellenistic #bronze #sculpture #art #Rome 🇮🇹 #MuseoNazionaleRomano #PalazzoMassimo
December 1, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Le #PalazzoMassimo est notamment connu pour les splendides fresques de la villa de Livie (épouse d’Auguste) à Prima Porta près de #Rome.
November 22, 2024 at 2:12 PM
November 16, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Medusa set in
stone Frozen in time As are
we, gazing at her
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/07/2024 📷 10/16/2024

One last #squares making squares
#romanart #mosaic #tile #medusa #Rome 🇮🇹 #MuseoNazionaleRomano #PalazzoMassimo #alphabetchallenge #weekSforSquares #haikusaturday #Haiku #senryū #poetry
November 9, 2024 at 10:27 AM
As we head into the weekend, here’s a herm of a devilishly handsome auriga (charioteer). One of several set in a sanctuary of Hercules in the Trastevere area in #Rome, a thanks to the god for their victories. 🏺 #archaeology

Trajanic, 98-117 CE. #PalazzoMassimo alle Terme, Rome.

📸 me
November 8, 2024 at 10:20 PM