#ancient roman art

[lionofchaeronea]

Roman silver coin minted in 55 BCE, during Julius Caesar's campaigns in Gaul, by Publius Fonteius Capito, one of the tresviri monetales (mint officials) for that year. On the obverse, the helmeted head of the war god Mars, with a small representation of a tropaeum (trophy) behind him. On the reverse, a Roman horseman rides down two enemy soldiers, identified by their helmets and shields as Gauls.

#classics #tagamemnon #history #ancient history #Ancient Rome #Roman Republic #Roman history #art #art history #ancient art #Roman art #Ancient Roman art #Roman Republican art #artifacts #artefacts #coins #ancient coins #Roman coins #Ancient Roman coins #numismatics #ancient numismatics #Roman numismatics

[uncleclaudius]

2 silver cups, part of the so-called Boscoreale treasure, buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

#roman empire #ancient rome #pompeii #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient art #roman art #ancient roman art

[jeannepompadour]

Medallion painting of Venus Aphrodite with a golden diadem and scepter, pearl earrings and necklace, House of Marcus Fabius Rufus, Pompeii. 1st century BC

#ancient rome #ancient art #ancient roman art #pompeii #mdpancient #goddess #roman fresco

[evilios]

Apollon de Lillebonne

This bronze statue depicting Apollo of Lillebonne was likely created in the 2nd century AD and went through numerous repairs in Antiquity. He is depicted naked, as typical of this God, and with His hair partially lifted in an intricate hairstyle.

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#APOLLO 🌞 #ANTIGÜEDADES 💎 #art #ancient art #ancient roman art #gallo roman art #apollo #apollo art #greek mythology #greek gods #anatolian gods

[carnageandculture]

Fresco depicting a religious procession with a statue of Cybele on a stretcher (ferculum), and a niche-aedicula with a herm of Dionysus.  Facade of the House of Venus and the Four Gods (IX. 7. 1), Pompeii, 1st cent. CE.

#ancient rome #pompeii #cybele #fresco #roman fresco #ancient roman art

[destielmemenews]

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#destiel meme #destiel meme news #world news #news #israel #roman statue #ancient roman art #vandalism #it was a bust of athena and a statue representing nemesis btw

[reesemh]

Satyrs at play

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[ineffable-inspirations]

A silver pepper pot in anthropomorphic form. Roman Britain, buried in the 5th century AD, from Hoxne, Suffolk.

The pepper pot was found in 1992 by a farmer who was using his metal detector to search for a lost hammer. He found his hammer – it is now in the British Museum – but also a hoard of over 15,000 gold and silver coins, gold jewellery and numerous small items of silver tableware. The coins in the hoard establish that its burial took place some time after AD 407/8. Only a very wealthy family could have owned such treasures. We do not know the identity of the person who buried it but several objects are inscribed with the name Aurelius Ursicinus.

The pepper pot is in the shape of a wealthy well-fed woman wearing late Roman fashions. She wears a sleeved undergarment with tight gilded cuffs at the wrists, and a wide-sleeved over tunic with stripes of gilded and engraved decoration over the shoulders representing appliqued bands of embroidered or patterned textile (clavi).

Her golden (gilded) hair is done up in an intricate style that was often represented in late Roman art: the hair is parted in the middle, with rolls at the sides. The back hair is worked into a flat series of twisted locks at the neck that are drawn up over the back of the head, turned under at the front, and held in place with hairpins. Three knobs at the front and another at the crown of the head represent the ungilded hairpins.

Almond-shaped earrings and a necklace of large beads are depicted in relief and gilded, and there is additional gilding on the face, covering not only the eyes but the entire eye sockets, and the mouth, so as the flames from oil lamps flickered, the face would have seemed to come alive.

She holds a gilded scroll in her left hand, to which she points with the index finger of her right hand, probably to symbolise her learning and authority. We do not know if the figure represents a particular woman. ... It's ineffable.

Pepper was just one expensive luxury traded across the Indian Ocean in ancient times, as it did not grow in Britain or any other part of the Roman Empire. It was grown in India and to get to Suffolk, the pepper was transported by sea, river and over land.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1994-0408-33

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/about_the_object/pepper_pot

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Hoxne_Hoard_28.jpg/800px-Hoxne_Hoard_28.jpg

spotted on Archaeologist Ticia Verveer's facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/100044382881604/posts/pfbid0UGcEJok8i67xeezyj2CLcKMJsbnLKAkWdy7NmP8TKZZ55opE4nU5fdVfqTSm7URXl/

#antique #ancient #archaeology #pepper #pepper pot #ancient history #ancient art #silver pepper pot #crowned figures #fashion history #ineffable inspiration #5th century ce #gilded figures #Aurelius Ursicinus #ancient roman art #ancient rome #ancient britain

[lionofchaeronea]

Mosaic of sea creatures (the so-called "Fish Catalog") from the House of the Geometric Mosaics (VIII.2.16) at Pompeii. Artist unknown; ca. 100 BCE. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Photo credit: Massimo Finizio.

#classics #tagamemnon #Ancient Rome #Pompeii #art #art history #ancient art #Roman art #Ancient Roman art #mosaic #sea creatures #NAM Naples

[uncleclaudius]

The cameo of a Roman man, most often identified as Drusus the Elder (alternatively sometimes identified as Tiberius or Germanicus). The sign at the bottom is the carver's name: Herophilos, son of Dioscourides.

#cameo #roman cameo #ancient rome #ancient roman art #acnient art #drusus the elder #nero claudius drusus #germancisu #emperor tiberius #it's unsusual for as to know who made the piece

[jeannepompadour]

Fresco of the muse Terpsichore from Edificio dei Triclini a Moregine at Pompeii, early fourth style of pompeian wall painting, c. 64 AD

#1st century #1st c. rome #ancient Rome #ancient roman #ancient roman art #muse #pompeii #fresco #roman fresco

[evilios]

Apollo Barberini - a Roman sculpture of Apollo Citharoedus dating back to the 1st or 2nd century. It is possible that the original statue was installed in the temple of Apollo Palatinus in Rome while this might be a copy, though this is unclear.

Photo credit: F. Tronchin

#AES : ANTIGÜEDADES 💎 #ancient roman art #ancient roman sculpture #roman art #roman sculpture #apollo #apollo citharoedus #apollo statue #ancient art

[lisascr3ature]

i decided to visit the getty villa for my birthday and i wanted to show you something. look at venus, the goddess of love, sex and beauty. see that her navel is more horizontal rather than the vertical shape we see on all the perfect, skinny bikini models and celebrities. her stomach has a crease when she bends over slightly. her breasts aren't pamela anderson huge. she has hips, but she does not have a "snatched waist". and this is the ultimate representation of beauty here. next time you feel bad about your body image and you're being hard on yourself, or compare your body to others, or feel insecure about your curves, you're closer than you think to goddess standards. is this not perfection? remember that venus herself has rolls and a 3d stomach and the ancient romans considered that divinely attractive. 🩷

#venus #aphrodite #goddess of love #ancient rome #venusian #roman goddess #ancient roman sculpture #ancient roman art #mythology #greek mythology #roman mythology #body positivity #body acceptance #body diversity #diversity #feminism #self love

[nickysfacts]

Remember that Greek and Roman art continues to be both figuratively and literally whitewashed.🎨

👩🏻‍🎨🏺👨🏼‍🎨

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[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

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[arthistoryanimalia]

For #TilesOnTuesday + a belated #SaveTheRhinoDay:

“A two-horned African rhinoceros ‘PINOKEPOC’ on the Nilotic mosaic of the flooding of the river Nile in Egypt, from the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste, c. 100 BCE, Palestrina Museo Archeologico.”

#Tiles on Tuesday #Save the Rhino Day #animal holiday #ancient art #Nilotic scene #mosaic #rhino #rhinoceros #African wildlife #African animals #animals in art #ancient Egypt #ancient Roman art