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FRESCO FRAGMENT FROM THE DOMUS OF THE VILLA FARNESINA, 30-20 BCE. PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME This extremely simplified scene comes from a frescoed corridor in the domus or villa (it has aspects of both) that likely belonged to Augustus' daughter Julia and her husband Agrippa. When it was discovered, only to be immediately demolished, some of its fresco work was preserved. This scene, against a plain background that is now mauve, shows a man, at left, and a woman at right. This scene has been interpreted as depicting two Cynic philosophers, Crates of Thebes, who famously gave away all his wealth, and his wife Hipparchia, shown here bringing her worldly goods to Crates, who is carrying only a small satchel. They shocked C4 BCE Athenian society by sleeping in the stoas and public places of the city, and even having sex in public. Crates, the male figure, is dressed in a ragged tunic, and Hipparchia is an elegant figure in a peplos. The scenes in this corridor probably all showed Greek philosophers.
#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. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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FRESCO FRAGMENT, 30-20 BCE, FROM THE ROMAN VILLA OF THE FARNESINA. PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME The luscious colours, green and violet, of this woman's tunic and stola, and their near-weightlessness, denote luxury, as does all the decoration in this villa, which is widely thought to have belonged to Augustus' daughter Julia and her husband, Augustus' best friend Agrippa. This fragment comes from a long corridor with Egyptian motifs, celebrating the Roman conquest of Egypt, and this female figure, which survives from the waist down, is dancing, one foot lifted delicately off the ground, the other poised on its toes. She might be a Maenad, or perhaps a devotee of the goddess Isis whose worship involved dance. Her swirling draperies, even after many centuries in the mud of the Tiber riverbank, invite us to join the dance, showing the level of expertise reached by Roman painters in the time of the first emperor.
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. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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FOLIATE COLUMNS, C. 27 BCE. S. PRASSEDE A magnificent set of six Augustan-era fluted columns ringed with four acanthus-leaf columns were found and reused in Paschal I's construction of the presbytery of S. Prassede in 817 CE. The capitals are C9, though they're not without their own grace and inventiveness. Here we see two of them, holding up the lintel of one of the two cantorie on either side of the presbytery. This part of the church was restructured in the C16 and again, in its present form, in the C18. They may well have come from the vanished original church near but not on the site of Paschal's church. This type of column is quite rare and may have originally come from a shrine or victory monument. The lowest ring or crown of acanthus leaves sits on a C9 base imitating the ancient leaves; the fluting springs from the irregular border of the leaves and finishes, with its curved tops, just below the next ring of acanthus. The pattern repeats itself up the column three more times.
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. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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DEDICATORY INSCRIPTION TO M. NONIUS BALBUS, C. 20 BCE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI This inscription is one of several from Herculaneum that commemorate the single biggest public benefactor the city ever had. Marcus Nonius Balbus, son of Marcus, was a native of Nuceria, another Campanian town, but he made his home in Herculaneum. He held important positions in the faltering Roman Republic: prætor and then proconsul of Crete and Cyrene, and tribune of the plebs in 32 BCE, in large part because he had the support of Octavian. His generosity, though self-aggrandising on an Augustus-like scale, was impressive. He set up an equestrian statue of his father in the town theatre, a statue of his mother Viciria, and after his death the city (and at least one of his freedmen) erected ten statues of him around Herculaneum, including a huge equestrian statue in the town forum. His main benefaction was the reconstruction of the city's walls and gates, and its law court, the Basilica Noniana. He even had a city square dedicated to him posthumously, in front of the Suburban Baths, with a standing statue of Nonius in armour and a huge funerary altar dedicated to him by his grateful fellow citizens.
#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. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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GIGANTOMACHIA RELIEF, C. 10 BCE. CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI The other piece of the frieze from the Theatre of Balbus is even more reminiscent of the Great Altar of Pergamon, with its dramatic flutter of draperies. This female figure facing right, with a velificatio or cloth billowing over her head to indicate her divinity (rather like a halo in Christian art), is Athena, holding a spear or a huge arrow. She is represented uncanonically, without armour, helmet, Gorgoneion and the rest - here she is a wild maiden with her curly hair flying around her head, and her violent movement and athletic stance shows her fully engaged in battle. To her left is the drapery of another female divinity, creating a swirl of energetic movement that, especially with its original paint, must have been quite a distraction to theatre-goers.
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.
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