Showing posts with label Roman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roman. Show all posts

26.2.14

Imperial Roman frescoes

In the National Archaeological Museum of Naples there are numerous frescoes taken from archaeological sites buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

No Museu Arqueológico Nacional de Nápoles existem, numerosos frescos retirados das zonas arqueológicas soterradas pela erupção do Vesúvio em 79 AD.

Unknown (1th century AD)-'Theseus Liberator'-fresco    Napoli-Museo Archeologico Nazionale (from Pompeii- house of Gavius Rufus)

Unknown (1th century AD)-'Alcestis and Admetus'-fresco    Napoli-Museo Archeologico Nazionale (from Erculano-basilica)

Unknown (1th century AD)-'scene of the scouring and the end of the Dionysus rite'-fresco    Napoli-Museo Archeologico Nazionale (from Villa dei Misteri, near Pompeii-penultimate sequence)

Unknown (1th century AD)-'a teacher, a young man and a woman'-fresco    Napoli-Museo Archeologico Nazionale (from Villa di Boscoreale, near Napoli-great triclinium)

Unknown (1th century AD)-'garden'-fresco    Napoli-Museo Archeologico Nazionale (from Villa di Oplontis, near Torre Annunziata-house of Poppea Sabina, second wife of the emperor Nero)

21.4.12

Roman Doors by Giuseppe Vasi


The engraver Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782) was Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s master. He devoted some of his works to the entrance doors in Rome by the Aurelian Wall (270-273), built to defend the city from barbarian attacks.

O gravador Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782) foi mestre de Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Dedicou algumas das suas obras às portas de entrada em Roma pela muralha Aureliana (270-273) edificada para defender a cidade do ataque dos bárbaros.

Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782)-'porta maggiore'-etching

Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782)-'porta Tiburtina'-etching

Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782)-'porta cavalleggeri'-etching

Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782)-'porta di San Paolo'-etching

Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782)-'porta Pia-etching

17.9.10

Termas romanas (Roman baths)

Os Romanos empregavam o vocábulo thermae para designar os banhos públicos. Usavam-nos com duas finalidades: terapia com águas medicinais e higiene pessoal do corpo. Compunham-se de vários compartimentos: apoditerium (vestiário); frigidarium (banhos frios); tepidarium (banhos tépidos); caldarium (banhos quentes) com água fornecida pelo praefurniu ou laconicum (estufa seca); sudatorium ou concamerata sudatio (estufa húmida). As mais conhecidas em Roma eram as de Dioclesiano (séc. I AD) e Antonino Caracalla, inauguradas em 216 AD.

The Romans used the term thermae to designate public baths. They used them for two purposes: therapy with medicinal water and personal hygiene of the body. The baths were composed of several compartments: apoditerium (room for undressing); frigidarium (cold baths); tepidarium (warm baths), caldarium (hot baths) with water supplied by praefurniu or laconicum (dry steam bath); sudatorium or concamerata sudatio (moist steam bath). The best known in Rome were those of Diocletian (1th century AD) and Antoninus Caracalla, inaugurated in 216 AD.


Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700)-'thermae Agrippae (hot baths of Agrippa)'-etching and engraving-1699 in Romane Magnitudinis Monumenta

John William Godward (1861-1922)-'at the thermae'-oil on canvas

Jean-Pierre-Laurent Houel (1735-1813)-'ancient thermae in the Monastery of Carmelites at Catania'-gouache and watercolour St Petersburg-Hermitage

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)-'the tepidarium'-oil on panel-1881 Port Sunlight (UK)-the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)-'an apodyterium'-oil on panel-1886 Private collection





http://www.italyguides.it/us/roma/baths_of_caracalla.htm Caracalla

vídeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvA8_Y9UUKg Diocletian

5.9.10

Carnaval Romano (Roman Carnival)

Em Roma há uma longa tradição destes festejos desde o tempo da República Romana com cortejos denominados Saturnalicius princeps. Regressaram pela mão da Igreja Católica pelo séc. XI. No séc. XVI faziam touradas no monte Testaccio junto à Porta de São Paulo. No séc. XIX faziam corridas de cavalos na Via del Corso entre as Praças do Popolo e Veneza.

In Rome there has been a long tradition in celebrating these kinds of festivities since the time of the Roman Republic with processions called Saturnalicius princeps. They returned by the hand of the Catholic Church around 11th century. In the 16th century there were bullfights in Mount Testaccio near the Door of San Paolo. In the 19th century there were horse races in Via del Corso between the Piazza del Popolo and Venice.

Anonymous 16th century-'Monte Testaccio. Carnival bullfight'-etching

Jan Miel (ca 1599-1651)-'carnival in the Piazza Colonna'-oil on canvas

Wilhelm Wider (1818-1884)-'Carnival in Rome'-oil on canvas-1852

Aleksandr Petrovich Myasoedov (19th century)-'Carnival in Rome'-oil on canvas-1839

José Benlliure y Gil (1855-1937)-'Carnival in Rome'-oil on canvas'