The discovery of the magnificent banquet hall in Pompeii, adorned with evocative frescoes and a starkly contrasting mosaic ...

Indeed, Pompeii’s very destruction is what has ... Inside the villa, named for its immense library of scrolls, were frescoes, mosaics and more than 90 statues. Exhibition highlights from the ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

Travelers to Pompeii uncover ancient artifacts and vibrant frescoes, revealing life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.

In the wake of the midsized earthquakes that struck Pompeii in 62 C.E., the city ... the originals “ensuring that restored sections of frescoes are chemically and visually consistent with ...

According to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the frescoes feature life-sized depictions of women dancers in a procession honoring Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. The remarkable paintings were ...

A new project in Pompeii is combining traditional dyeing techniques with colourful frescoes, to revive the daily life in the ancient city before the eruption. The inspiration comes from frescoes ...

This style of art is heavily associated with Italy, where breath-taking frescoes were recently discovered at the ancient site of Pompeii. Other famous Italian frescoes include Michelangelo's ...

On 17 October 79 AD, the city of Pompeii was buried under lava after ... The film unveils the sumptuous frescoes and mosaics that adorned the excavated villas and uses historical reconstructions ...