 This is London | Beautiful bronzes from ancient Rome This is London Italian foundries published fat catalogues from which the buyer might choose a copy of the Medici Venus, the Vatican Antinous, or the erotica of Pompeii ... |
Appealing to our inner teenage boy Spiked Hell, it makes Up Pompeii! look like a work of classical scholarship. They play heavy metal during the fight scenes. There's lots of blood, lots of sex, ... |
A newsmaker you should know: Jefferson Cemetery ready for crowd of Memorial ... Pittsburgh Post Gazette ... 32 columns representing an ancient temple in the Garden of the Temple; and five original, 2000-year-old Roman urns from Pompeii throughout the grounds. ... |
 Korea Times | Cinema with a retro edge Korea Times Stefano Maccagno will improvise tunes to ``Thousand'' (1912), ``Dante and Beatrice'' (1913) and ``The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1913). ... |
Travel: We came, we saw, we conquered...in Rome BirminghamMail.net Another spectacular site is the ancient ruin of Pompeii. A truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. Again very hot, but remarkable. ... |
 The Guardian (blog) | Lord Leighton: a better decorator than artist? The Guardian (blog) In the glorious domed indoor courtyard is a copy of a Roman statue from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. This makes you see that it resembles the inner ... |
Check out yesterday’s Corriere della Sera for criticisms of construction work going on in the Large Theatre and Theatre Portico at Pompeii. In particular watch the video that accompanies the article. I’ll be interested to hear whether this is an accurate representation of what is going on from those of you who are in Pompeii at the moment. I find myself increasingly suspicious of the Italian press (!) because they have such an axe to grind about what has been happening at Pompeii since Guzzo left. It’s hard to know what the truth really is …
Congratulations to film maker Marcellino de Baggis who has just won his third prize for the documentary “Herculaneum: diaries of darkness and light” at the Agon Film Festival in Athens.
You can find more information on previous prizes and the film itself by clicking back through the blog links such as this one or this one.
Cooking Art History: Leonardo da Vinci Huffington Post (blog) ... Varro, and Pliny the Elder; well-to-do Romans admired frescoes and mosaics depicting their foods while dining in Pompeii and Herculaneum. ... |
Follow this link for an article (in Italian) on protests about the proposed privatisation of Pompei Scavi. The photos are funny.
