Are you passionate about the history of Pompeii? Here are some ... presumably a young bride, whose 'head has been separated from the rest of the sculpture at chin level by the pyroclastic ash ...

The re-discovery of Pompeii in 1748 has been a huge inspiration for the world of art, literature and culture. Some of the most famous paintings to depict the eruption include Joseph Wright’s ...

A new discovery has done just that. Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii’s main gates. The sculptures were found ...

Organized by the office of Pompeii’s archaeological superintendent, the exhibition includes nearly 500 objects (sculpture ... and a finely chiseled head of an Amazon warrior in the style ...

open image in gallery The sculptures depict a man and woman standing side by side (Archaeological Park of Pompeii/Alfio Giannotti) The tomb’s main feature is a large wall, peppered with niches ...

including a jug with a lion’s head and a sphinx on the handle. Located in Pompeii’s Regio V section, the main site of active archaeological work at the complex, the home was first excavated in ...

Nearby lies the head ... a hook. Pompeii park has started a collaboration with the Department of Child Neuropsychiatry at Naples’ Federico II University to study the children’s art.

But there is something tantalising about the art of Pompeii, too. It is rather as though ... sits in an attitude that has always signified melancholy, the head, heavy with thought, supported ...

A detail of a fresco showing a sea battle framed in Pompeii red topped by a basket and a mask that decorates the living room of house of the Vetti, in one of the wealthiest homes in Pompeii ...

A marble relief sculpture depicting earthquake of 62 C.E. from Pompeii was found in the basement ... the museum’s head of exhibitions, speaking to VRT NWS. “That piece corresponds to a similar ...

Its size was uncommonly small compared with others found in Pompeii, including some situated close by, and adding to the intrigue is the fact that it contains such lavish art inside. The frescoes ...

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily life before the city was destroyed by a ...