This is the 3rd of my images honoring the unknown artists of Pompeii. This excavated Pompeiian painting of a beautiful woman shows her with a stylus delicately pointed to her lips. I have placed a dried orange rose in the foreground; her eyes are drawn to it in contemplation.
Drusilla's father leaves her, at age 6, to be fostered by Julia Felix in Pompeii. She's lost her mother in the 62 AD earthquake, and now her father's disappearing as well -- because he doesn't want to be hampered by a little girl while he establishes a new business (and life) in nearby, wealthy Herculaneum. Drusilla's only companion for the moment is Invictus, her puppy ... but she becomes friends with Julia's daughter Claudia. Still, she's effectively orphaned for convenience.
#WordWeavers 20: How did you settle on your antagonists' appearances?
In "Pompeii Fire," my antagonist is an actual, documented person: Stephanus, the fuller. Now, he may have been the nicest guy in town for all any of us know ... but not in my book. He's way older than my female protagonist (he's her father's age), and wants to marry her. He's not particularly good-looking, and he's always trying to hide that his hair is thinning. But the worst part of him really is his odious personality.
This is the first in a series of a tribute to #Pompeii Dried flowers against a backdrop of photos of paintings and mosaics that have been unearthed at the site. This first one is a black and white with a slight sepia tone. I'm working on others in color. Enjoy.
"The oecus (banquet hall) is part of a large domus whose architectural style dates it to the middle of the 1st century B.C. It is 48 feet long and 20 feet wide, a huge room covering more than 950 square feet in area."
We will be shopping today, so there probably win't be too many opportunities for photography, so here's a few from 13 years ago today, 06/04/2011, in #pompeii#italy#italia#travelphotography#history
There's this building in Pompeii, around coordinates 40.7504, 14.4892 - if you search it on google street view you'll see something like this.
The portico paintings are beautiful, but when I was there the little sculpture on the wall caught my eye - and at the time, there was nothing covering it so I was able to make a good capture.
Electoral inscriptions discovered inside a house in Pompeii
Recent excavations along the Via di Nola in central Pompeii have unveiled electoral inscriptions inside a house, offering a glimpse into the politics of the time, a connection between politicians and bread, and the last rituals performed before the city’s devastation...
Far be it from us to suggest you visit Pompeii to go on an exploratory phallus-finding mission… but we certainly wouldn’t try to dissuade you either. Just look at that phallus framed by other phalluses! Must be good fortune 🥳