The House of the Chaste Lovers gets its name from a symposiac painting depicting a couple exchanging a sensual yet chaste kiss during an outdoor summer banquet organized by two men, accompanied with courtesans lounging on beds under a canopy, where music and dance are the frame for wine and love. The building is actuallyContinue reading “The House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii”
Monthly Archives: May 2013
One of the tresaures of the Archaeological Museum of Naoples: The Farnesian Atlas (Atlante Farnese)
The statue became part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in 1562. It represents the Titan Atlas supporting the globe on his shoulders, on which are represented in bas-relief forty-three constellations. The peculiarity of sculpture, a Roman copy of the II century. d.C., is its uniqueness, as there are no other figurative monuments thatContinue reading “One of the tresaures of the Archaeological Museum of Naoples: The Farnesian Atlas (Atlante Farnese)”
Pompeii and Herculaneum tours with an archaeologist 