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#FrescoFriday returns us to the #Augustan #domus of the #Farnesina, whose surviving #fresco work is in #PalazzoMassimo alle #Terme in #Rome. Here we meet two figures of #Greek #philosophy famous in antiquity, the consciously shameless #Cynic couple #Crates and #Hipparchia.
Let's dance! #FrescoFriday returns us to the #domus of #Agrippa and #Julia demolished in the late C19 during works that, in straightening the #Tiber at the suggestion of #Garibaldi, destroyed 40% of the gardens of the #VillaFarnesina in #Rome as well as this #Augustan mansion.
A 🧵for #SpoliaSunday in #Rome, but all over the place, looking for the reuse of some very specific #columns with #foliate rings. They're splendid pieces of work and must have come from the #Augustan monumental area near the base of the #Capitoline hill.
#EpigraphyTuesday reminds us of the great patron of #Augustan #Herculaneum, M. #NoniusBalbus, from the slab on the base of a #statue of Nonius made by his grateful fellow citizens. The Nonii Balbi were everywhere in the ancient coastal town, both descendents and freedmen.
@chapps @arakhnos @museiincomune @p_historians @rogueclassicist @caputmundiHeidi @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @decimusclaudius @HawkeJon A #ReliefWednesday add-on: a second piece of the huge #relief of the war of the gods and giants from the scenæ frons of the #Theatre of #Balbus in #Rome, a fantastic churn of draperies which has nothing to do with #Augustan sobriety and everything to do with #Pergamene sculpture.
For #FrescoFriday we return to the collection of #EvanGorga in #palazzoAltemps, where a fourth-style wall in #fresco and #stucco hints at the mastery of #Augustan decorative arts in #Rome. Tantalisingly incomplete, we can only guess at its significance.
For #FrescoFriday, a strange archaising detail from a bedroom in the #Augustan imperial villa of the #Farnesina in #Rome, where a staring crowned face in #fresco might be an #oscillum with a #Medusa head, or some other slightly menacing #apotropaic figure.
#Spolia is everywhere in #Rome, and palazzo #Cenci Bolognetti atop #Montecenci is no exception. For #SpoliaSunday this week we're looking at what's left of an #Augustan reconstruction of an older temple on the site of the palazzo, or very nearby.
#MosaicMonday this week takes us to the #Palatine hill in #Rome, where a lovely #opussectile floor left buried under a fountain shows the #Augustan taste for magnificence and a #Domitianic indifference to expense.
From the very lacunar #inscription on this #altar, we can identify this for #EpigraphyTuesday as an #Augustan neighbourhood altar celebrating 9 years of the cult of the Lares Augusti, whose priests were freedmen given status as #vicomagistri or local officials.
For #SpoliaSunday, a piece of #Augustan #inscription has found its way to the Parco Archeologico del #Celio in #Rome, all the way from the top of the #Capitoline hill, where it once formed part of a #fountain in the now-vanished monastery of the #Aracoeli.
This #SpoliaSunday in the #AreaSacradiLargoArgentina in #Rome we find a glorious fragment of an #Augustan frieze reused in the C13 as a floor tomb in the now-demolished church of S. Nicola de' Cesarini, then discarded like so much dross in the C17.
For #ReliefWednesday we're looking at an art form that has long been snobbed as "literature for the illiterate", the vulgar rich of #Augustan #Rome, but which is far more likely to have been an object of delight, a small #relief to be passed around at intellectual gatherings.
For #spoliaSunday a striking #inscription in #Augustan #epigraphy on a nave rib of the Duomo of #Pisa is meant to catch our attention and inform us that the city's powerful maritime republic considered itself heir to #Rome's dominance of the Mediterranean. Take that, #Venice!
https://t.co/sYB2Eo9LLz
“Phillis #Wheatley’s poetry shows not only command of imagery and allusion but also a mastery of the #Augustan poetic style that was popular in both Britain and America.” #BookWormSat
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