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Brushing up on beauty. By Lowe Brothers. 1935.

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Various paintings of Roman scenes by Pavel Svedomsky (it is possible some of them are really by his brother Alexander Sveedomsky, also a painter).

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_of_Ancient_Rome_by_Pavel_Svedomsky

The last painting is Fulvia with the head of Cicero, from a story related in Cassius Dio, Book 47:

8 1 So Caesar saved the lives of as many as he could; and Lepidus allowed his brother Paulus to escape to Miletus and was not inexorable toward the others. But Antony killed savagely and mercilessly, not only those whose names had been posted, but likewise those who had attempted to assist any of them. 2 He always viewed their heads, even if he happened to be eating, and sated himself to the fullest extent on this most unholy and pitiable sight. And even Fulvia also caused the death of many, both to satisfy her enmity and to gain their wealth, in some cases men with whom her husband was not even acquainted; 3 at any rate, when he saw the head of one man, he exclaimed: “I knew not this man!” When, however, the head of Cicero also was brought to them one day (he had been overtaken and slain in flight), Antony uttered many bitter reproaches against it and then ordered it to be exposed on the rostra more prominently than the rest, in order that it might be seen in the very place where Cicero had so often been heard declaiming against him, together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off. 4 And Fulvia took the head into her hands before it was p133 removed, and after abusing it spitefully and spitting upon it, set it on her knees, opened the mouth, and pulled out the tongue, which she pierced with the pins that she used for her hair, at the same time uttering many brutal jests.

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Spring by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema

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Villa of the Mysteries’ Frescoes - The Villa of the Mysteries (Villa dei Misteri) is a well-preserved suburban ancient Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, famous for the series of exquisite frescos in one room, which are usually thought to show the initiation of a young woman into a Greco-Roman mystery cult (probably into the cult of Bacchus, women and satyrs are featured prominently). These are now among the best known of the relatively rare survivals of Ancient Roman painting. There are many different interpretations of the frescoes, but they are commonly believed to depict a religious rite. Another common theory is that the frescoes depict a bride initiating into the Bacchic Mysteries in preparation for marriage. x

“It was a special meeting room, with wall containing paintings which suggest an initiation ceremony into the cult of Dionysus, by a would be bride of the God. The ceremony is intricately depicted, yet some things are hidden from us. A near naked child reads the holy word, the Logos, while the female priestesses attend and bring cake offerings.

Some things are hidden from our eyes, such as perhaps the sacred symbolic phallus of the popular fertility god, which gets unveiled. The purification ceremony continues around the walls of the room, and includes ritual whipping, as well as the emerging bride, now purified and ready to take her place with the followers of the god. In the center of the back wall of the room, an apparently inebriated Dionysus reclines in the lap of what may be Ariadne, the bride he once rescued when she had been abandoned by the greek hero Theseus on the cycladic island of Naxos.

The scene is second style, dates somewhere around 40, 30 BCE. The wall has been broken up as a flat surface, and the action now takes place on a stage. The sparse style of the figural detailing suggests artistic influence from the Hellenistic Greek world, at the end of the second and into the first century BCE.” - David Soren

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The Travelling Merchant of Stardew Valley (or Gotoro Empire?) having a coffee break. Just added on my Etsy shop as an art print: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/769119361/stardew-valley-travelling-merchant Thanks for looking! Oink ♪