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Pompeii

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i was just thinking about pompeii, and the fact that they were people just like us, with dick jokes, fast foods, public toilets and graffitis, and i started crying

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Karl Bryullov, ‘Last Day of Pompeii’, (Details) || via joytri AOG: Fall Asleep to a Prayer That Breaks Every Chain The Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 on the subject of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It is notable for its positioning between Neoclassicism, the predominant style in Russia at the time, and Romanticism as increasingly practised in France. The painting captures sheer panic of citizens escaping the doomed city beneath a sky filled with volcanic ash. Bryullov masterfully divided crowd into small, emotional vignettes. A family clutches each other in a desperate embrace, a priest tries to calm the fear around him, and a mother lies dead in the street while her surviving children weep over her. [1,2,3,4] Bryullov visited archaeological ruins of Pompeii in 1828 & studied historical letters written by the eyewitness Pliny the Younger. He wanted every face and gesture to feel perfectly real. Work was a massive success. It made Bryullov 1st Russian artist to earn global fame. [1,2,3] The painting also served as the main inspiration for the famous 1834 novel The Last Days of Pompeii by British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton. [1, 2]

The spinning top at the end of the movie Inception is a test to check if the main character, Dom Cobb (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), is awake. In a dream, the top spins forever. In reality, it will fall over. The movie ends on a mystery, cutting to black just as the top wobbles. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

The massive masterpiece (4.5 by 6.5 meters) hangs in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg & blends Neoclassic balance with dramatic Romantic emotion. [1, 2]

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"And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love Grey clouds roll over the hills, bringing darkness from above." 

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1st-century AD Roman fresco depicting the goddess Diana, also known as Artemis in Greek mythology, holding a bow and arrow.

The painting was excavated from the Villa Arianna in Stabiae, near Pompeii, and is currently housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

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Roman mosaic depicting actors and an aulos player (House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii).

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Pompeii: Out of Time

Via National Geographic on Instagram