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Beautiful detail in the Baths of Stabia, Pompeii.

Photographed by Carlo Raso (PDM 1.0)

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Roman Puteal (wellhead) 2nd century.

This puteal (wellhead) is an outstanding example of Roman figural relief sculpture of the second century A.D. It once covered a well in Ostia, the port town of ancient Rome, probably within a sumptuous Roman villa along the Tiber River. The ancient Roman sculptor has transformed a utilitarian object into a luxurious work of art. Carved from a single block of marble, whose form resembles a Hellenistic altar, the drum is decorated with two cautionary tales from Greek mythology that relate to water. The sculptor seamlessly combined the story of Narcissus and Echo, best known from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with the tale of the handsome hero Hylas being abducted by nymphs in the land of Mysia (western Turkey) as he was fetching water for the Argonauts on their quest to find the Golden Fleece, best known in Greek literature from the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. NYC (USA)

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Franck K. Lundangi (Angolan, 1958) - Metamorphosis (2015)

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An Autumn Sunday I recognize as hunters are crossing the grounds...

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Portrait of a young man with red cap, 1477, Sandro Botticelli

Medium: wood,tempera

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Perspective At Palazzo Spada: The palace belonged to the cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro, who patronized its building to the architect Bartolomeo Baronino from Casale Monferrato, starting from the end of 1548. The Palazzo Capodiferro was almost completed around the Jubilee 1550 and decorated between 1556 and 1560 with stuccos by Giulio Mazzoni on its façade and courtyard walls, and painting cycles adorning its interiors.