#pompeii

[jordanbolton]

To The Painters of Pompeii - Jordan Bolton

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[escuerzoresucitado]

[hamletthedane]

Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

[dandylion-s]

Bastille was right. How am I gonna be an optimist about this. Also right about eh eho eho.

[uncleclaudius]

Snakes in various ancient Roman frescoes and mosaics.

[rilke]

What a privilege to see the wild boar mosaic up close. The blood spot in the eye, the redness in the mouth and the blueish tesserae making up the diffused shadows. Quite the welcome in the entrance hall of the recently conserved House of the Boar, Pompeii — Dr. Sophie Hay

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Section of a triclinium fresco with a fountain and a bird, from the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii, 1st century A.D. (Photo By DEA / L. PEDICINI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

[bulljumpingfresco]

Fresco of Bacchus adorned with grapes in front of Mount Vesuvius