roman art

September 8, 2013
oupacademic : Emerald Green Glass Dish in the form of a boat, possible for condiments (from Pompeii) from Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum .

September 6, 2013
thegetty : Plautilla, one of the less fortunate Roman empresses.

August 28, 2013
thegetty : Late Roman mosaic in Bulla Regia, Tunisia, a treasure house of ancient stone and focus of a current conservation project.

August 20, 2013
On this day in 79 CE, small earthquakes started taking place around Mt.

August 14, 2013
Emily Sharpe reports on the cleaning of Diocletian’s palace (in Split/Spalato, Croatia ) with lasers in a ten-year project in The Art Newspaper .

August 12, 2013
Carlo Avvisati and Ermanno Rivetti report in The Art Newspaper about conservators using laser technology to clean the delicate murals in the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii.

August 1, 2013
thegetty : A view of Rome for the traveler, the tourist and the antiquarian.

July 21, 2013
Fauno rosso, Roman, 2nd century C.E.