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#FrescoFriday is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 22 people shared 55 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is down 40% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 17 with 19 posts.

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Posts with #FrescoFriday

The Partial Historians 🏺
@partialhistorians.bsky.social
1 day ago
Captured for eternity: the moment you realise that sound you just heard didn’t come from the lyre… May your weekend contain no such moments! #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky🏺
Roman fresco with two figures next to each other. The one to the left has a theatre mask pushed up and resting on their head and looks towards the viewer. The figure to the right holds a lyre and appears to be looking at the figure to the left with an expression of ‘what just happened?’ Fresco from Pompeii and now held by the MAN Napoli.
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Rome and Beyond
@romebeyond.bsky.social
7 months ago
Villa Farnesina Cubiculum B fresco depicting the Nymphs of Mount Nysa caring for the infant Dionysus. The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery. #FrescoFriday
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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social
9 months ago
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows detail from a Roman fresco (wall painting) in a corridor at Villa A, the luxurious so-called ‘Villa Poppaea’ at ancient Oplontis (modern day Torre Annunziata) in the Bay of Naples, Italy. The fresco depicts a small light brown bird standing on a small pinky-brown wooden shelf, against a vibrant red background panel. The bird is shown in profile, facing left, with plummage painted in various shades of light brown and grey to beautifully depict detail of its feathers. The bird is lowering its head with beak open, about to peck into a fig on the shelf in front. There are two further figs painted behind the bird which have already been pecked into. The figs are painted light brown. The figs which have already been pecked into have cream flesh and red seeds.
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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social
5 months ago
Here’s a charming Roman fresco of a little rabbit eating figs 🐰❤️ From Pompeii, 45-79 AD. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a Roman fresco of a brown rabbit with long ears, curled on the ground, with a rounded, soft-looking body. Its head is lowered as if nibbling at three figs placed in front of it. The figs are small and round with short stems, painted in dark reddish and bluish tones. From Pompeii. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social
3 months ago
Some 2,000 years ago, a Roman fresco painter transformed a room into an enchanting garden filled with lush plants, trees, and birds, all under a clear blue sky! 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛ 😍 House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows detail from a large Pompeian wall fresco of a lush flower garden from a room in the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii. The scene includes realistic depictions of trees, shrubs, flowering plants, and birds beneath a blue sky. In the foreground is a water fountain; an off-white hemispherical shell-shaped basin on a pedestal stand. There is a sycamore tree behind the water basin with various birds perched on its branches. Perched at top left is a black and white magpie, top right a sparrow, bottom left a white turtledove, bottom right a grey wood pigeon. On the right of the scene, a golden oriole bird with yellow, white, and brown plummage looks out from viburnam bush with white flowers. Some other identifiable plants depicted in the lush garden include oleander, strawberry tree, ivy, and a date palm.
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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Enchanting Roman wall fresco of a lush garden, rich in plant and bird life. From a reception room at the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. 1st century BC - 1st century AD 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology
Detail from a wall fresco depicting a naturalistic and lush garden from a reception room at the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii. The garden is filled with trees, shrubs and flowering plants. There is a birdbath and birds which include a dove, a wood pigeon, a golden oriole, a magpie and sparrow
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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
A 2,000 year-old Roman advertisement for wine which ranges in price from cheap plonk to the good stuff! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 Painted at the entrance of a shop known as ‘Ad Cucumas’ in Herculaneum, Italy. 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a painted wall fresco advertising wine for sale outside a shop known as ‘Ad Cucumas’ in ancient Herculaneum, Italy. Four coloured wine jugs are shown in a row. From left to right: green, blue, red, and white. They have a round body with a tall neck and a single handle. There is a price written beneath each jug, which decreases from left to right.
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Dr Sophie Hay
@pompei79.bsky.social
8 months ago
Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple. The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations. Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance) #FrescoFriday
Fresco of a facade of a Roman temple. A short flight of steps leading up to a portico with Corinthian columns. Between the double colannade is a decorated wooden barrier with lattice work and a spiky top. The wooden doors to the temple are closed. The pediment contains a painted relief. In front of the steps is an ornate altar on which offerings burn.
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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Interior decoration Roman style! 2,000 years ago, painted wall frescoes transformed a small room into an enchanting garden filled with lush ornamental plants, fruit trees, birds, and exotic statuary, all set against a blue sky! 😍 House of the Orchard, Pompeii, 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology
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Nina Willburger
@drnwillburger.bsky.social
4 months ago
Campaigning in Roman times: For #FrescoFriday a painting from Pompeii that was long believed to show the sale of bread. It's thought now to be the free distribution of bread ahead of an election by a politician in a white toga. Photo: MANN Inv. No. 9071 🏺 #archaeology #romanarchaeology
A fresco showing a man in a white toga standing behind a counter piled with round loaves of bread, reaching out to hand bread to two adult men and a child in front of him.
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Anthony Majanlahti
@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
1 day ago
Found in an #Esquiline domus in 1848, this mid-C1 BCE fresco shows #Odysseus' men meeting the #Laestrygonian princess. The lounging figures are not mere mortals; they are Greek-labelled personifications of the living landscape, like the shores (Aktai). #FrescoFriday
FRESCO OF THE LAESTRYGONIANS, C. 60-40 BCE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This segment of the famous Odyssey Landscapes was discovered in 1848 during excavations of an elite domus on the Via Graziosa (modern Via Cavour) on the Esquiline Hill. Dating to the mid-first century BCE, these Second Style frescoes originally adorned the upper portion of a wall, framed by painted red pilasters to create the illusion of looking outward through a grand portico. The scene depicts an episode from Book 10 of the Odyssey: Odysseus' men encounter the daughter of the Laestrygonian king, Antiphates, as she draws water from the spring Artacia. The lounging figures surrounding the action are Hellenistic personifications of the geography, like Aktai (the shores) on the lower left. Interestingly, the artist labelled the three scouts in Greek. While Eurybates correctly matches Odysseus' herald in the epic, the names Antilochos and Anchialos are not in Homer's account of this scene, showing the painter embellished the text with familiar names to give the anonymous crewmen epic gravitas.
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