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Woman with wax tablets and stylus. So-called Sappho, fourth style pompeian fresco. A young woman is shown with a pen (stylus) that is used to writing on the wax tablets she is holding. The net in her hair is made of golden threads and typical for the fashion of the Neronian period. Discovered in May 1760 (Region VI, Insula occidentalis), is one of the most famous and beloved paintings.
National Archaeological Museum, Naples
A detail of a fresco from Herculaneum showing a woman wearing a crown of olive leaves. (National Archaeological Museum, Naples)
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Perseus with the head of Medusa.Fresco in Villa San Marco, Stabiae. Campania, Italy.
By : Sergey Sosnovskiy (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Palazzo Massimo - Dining Room of Livia’s Villa
Can’t help it, but I just love Roman fresco and mosaic birds ;)
Rome, July 2015
Such an amazing place to visit.
Fresco with two men buying bread, found in the house of a baker, Pompeii.
A well-meaning octogenarian has stunned art experts after taking it upon herself to restore a treasured century-old fresco - with distinctly amateurish results. Elias Garcia Martinez’s depiction of Jesus has held pride of place in a Spanish church for more than 120 years. But over the past 18 months moisture in the church caused the fresco to deteriorate - prompting a local woman in her 80s to whip out her paintbrush and try and fix it herself.
The elderly woman did not consult the Sanctuary of Mercy Church in Zaragoza before she set about transforming the once beautiful depiction of Christ [and] To make matters worse, Spain’s Centro de Estudios Borjanos, which works to preserve artwork, had received a donation from Elias Garcia Martinez’s granddaughter which they had planned to spend on restoring the damaged fresco. The fresco will be assessed by a team of professionals to see if it can be saved.
remember in 2012 when that lady tried restoring that painting of jesus
