EditorialItaly. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Young Heracles strangling the snakes, sent by Juno, before the eyes of Alcmena, Amphitryon and his father (Jupiter is depicted as an eagle, flown down to the altar). Fresco, 60-79 CE. Campania.
EditorialItaly. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Young Heracles strangling the snakes, sent by Juno, before the eyes of Alcmena, Amphitryon and his father (Jupiter is depicted as an eagle, flown down to the altar). Fresco, 60-79 CE. Campania.
EditorialItaly. Pompeii. Triclinium of The House of the Vettii. Frieze of the Cupids or Cherubs. Painting of Cupids doing goldsmith work. 1st century AD. Campania.
EditorialPompeii. House of the Vettii. Lararium. Two Lares, holding a rhyton, flank a genius with a libation bowl and incense box, his head covered for a sacrifice. The snake, associated with the prosperity, approaches an altar. The tympanum shows a patera, an ...
EditorialLARARIO TEMPLETE de la Casa de los Vettii. Dos Lares, sosteniendo un rit?n, flanquean a un genio con un cuenco de libaci?n y una caja de incienso, con la cabeza cubierta para un sacrificio. La serpiente, asociada con la prosperidad, se acerca a un alta...
EditorialSmall column with ivy. Marble. 1st century AD. From House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Special Superintendence for the archaeological goods of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae.
EditorialGarden and peristyle, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Marble tables, fountains and geometrical flower-beds are typical of Pompeiian taste in the 1st CE.