Villa Imperiale - Oecus
Continua il racconto, da parte dell'archeologa Adele Lagi, sugli ambienti della Villa Imperiale di Pompei recentemente aperta al pubblico.
Villa Imperiale - Alcova
La terza parte del racconto, da parte dell'archeologa Adele Lagi, sugli ambienti della Villa Imperiale di Pompei recentemente aperta al pubblico.
Pompei, riaprono Villa Imperiale e l'Antiquarium
Colors of Ancient Pompeii - Villa of the Mysteries
The Villa of the Mysteries (Italian: Villa dei Misteri) is a well-preserved suburban Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy, famous for the series of frescos in one room, which are usually thought to show the initiation of a young woman into a Greco-Roman mystery cult. These are now probably the best known of the relatively rare survivals of Ancient Roman painting. Like the rest of the Roman city of Pompeii, the villa was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 and excavated from 1909 onwards (long after much of the main city).
Beyond the Villa of Diomedes lies the Villa of the Mysteries, famous for having one of the most important decorative fresco collections in the Roman world. The villa originally dates from the 2nd century BC, but its current layout was set between 70 and 60BC.
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Walk around in a 3D splendid house from the ancient Pompeii
By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago. Unique video material has now been produced, showing their creation of a 3D model of an entire block of houses.
After the catastrophic earthquake in Italy in 1980, the Pompeii city curator invited the international research community to help document the ruin city, before the state of the finds from the volcano eruption in AD 79 would deteriorate even further. The Swedish Pompeii Project was therefore started at the Swedish Institute in Rome in 2000. The researcher in charge of the rescue operation was Anne-Marie Leander Touati, at the time director of the institute in Rome, now Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University.
Since 2010, the research has been managed by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History in Lund. The project now also includes a new branch of advanced digital archaeology, with 3D models demonstrating the completed photo documentation. The city district was scanned during the field work in 2011–2012 and the first 3D models of the ruin city have now been completed. The models show what life was like for the people of Pompeii before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The researchers have even managed to complete a detailed reconstruction of a large house, belonging to the wealthy man Caecilius Iucundus.
“By combining new technology with more traditional methods, we can describe Pompeii in greater detail and more accurately than was previously possible”, says Nicoló Dell´Unto, digital archaeologist at Lund University.
Among other things, the researchers have uncovered floor surfaces from AD 79, performed detailed studies of the building development through history, cleaned and documented three large wealthy estates, a tavern, a laundry, a bakery and several gardens. In one garden, they discovered that some of the taps to a stunning fountain were on at the time of eruption – the water was still gushing when the rain of ash and pumice fell over Pompeii.
The researchers occasionally also found completely untouched layers. In a shop were three, amazingly enough, intact windows (made out of translucent crystalline gypsum) from Ancient Rome, stacked against each other. By studying the water and sewer systems they were able to interpret the social hierarchies at the time, and see how retailers and restaurants were dependent on large wealthy families for water, and how the conditions improved towards the end, before the eruption.
An aqueduct was built in Pompeii, enabling residents to no longer having to rely on a few deep wells or the tanks of collected rainwater in large wealthy households.
The work behind the 3D film and a discussion on the credibility of the reconstructions are presented in an article, published in SCIRES Italy.
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione and the Humanities Lab at Lund University have contributed to the development of the material and 3D work.
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Article: Reconstructing the Original Splendour of the House of Caecilius Iucundus. A Complete Methodology for Virtual Archaeology Aimed at Digital Exhibition.
Pompeii and the House of Sallust - 3D Reconstruction
The House of Sallust at Pompeii was discovered more than 200 years ago, and still is one of the best-preserved elite homes in the city. In it, you can see both continuity & modification -- both reflecting the tastes and styles of Roman life over time. I have used the Medieval Engineers software engine with many mods to create this walkable, playable, explorable version. This introduction will show you a little bit about how Romans conceived of the idea of home and how they used their space to reflect their values. I hope you enjoy!
If you have Medieval Engineers, you can download and walk through this whole Pompeii build yourself, at no extra charge. It's on the Steam Workshop:
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House of Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii (Pompeya)
La Domus de Caecilius Iucundus en Pompeya. Un equipo internacional de investigadores dirigido por arqueólogos de la Universidad de Lund ha reconstruido virtualmente en 3D la gran domus del banquero pompeyano Lucio Cecilio Iucundus.
John Clarke: Vesuvius and the Villa: New Discoveries Near Pompeii
In conjunction with the reinstallation of Classic Court, John Clarke, noted professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak about his excavation work near the lost city of Pompeii, which was buried in a massive volcano eruption in 79 CE. Dr. Clarke's teaching and research focus on ancient Roman art, art-historical methodology, and contemporary art. One of the world's top scholars on ancient Pompeii, he is co-director of the Oplontis Project, a collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii and the King's Visualisation Lab (King's College, London), which is conducting a systematic study of a huge luxury villa that dates 50 BC--AD 79. Dr. Clarke has seven books and more than 75 essays, articles, and reviews to his credit.
Pompei accessibile
Pompei accessibile: gli Architetti Forgione e Di Lillo ci raccontano l'importante intervento di valorizzazione nel grande complesso delle proprietà di Giulia Felice, che ha reso fruibili a tutti gli spazi restaurati di questa villa urbana, tra le più affascinanti di Pompei.
Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi and produced by the National Gallery, this excerpt is from a new documentary film that examines the explosion of artistic activity around the Bay of Naples beginning in the first century BC.
Pompeii - La basilica
La Basilica dell'antica Pompei fu costruita nella seconda metà del II sec. a.C., nell'ambito del progetto di monumentalizzazione della città. Presenta pianta rettangolare, a 3 navate, con copertura a doppio spiovente retta dalle colonne centrali e dalle semicolonne della parte superiore delle pareti, dove restano decorazioni in 'primo stile': sul fondo è il tribunale, dove sedevano i magistrati, raggiungibile con scale di legno. L'edificio era infatti adibito all'amministrazione della giustizia e alle contrattazioni economiche.
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The Basilica of Pompeii was constructed in the second half of the 2nd century BC, as part of a plan to monumentalise the city. It was built to a rectangular plan, with 3 naves, a double sloping roof supported by central columns and by pilasters on the upper parts of the walls, where pictorial decorations of the First Style are still preserved. At the far end of the building is the tribunal, where the magistrates sat, reachable by wooden stairs. The building was indeed utilised for the administration of justice and business negotiations.
Restored villa shows luxury of Imperial Rome
Torre Annunziata - 17 April 172013
1. Wide of the Torre Annunziata shoreline with the Vesuvius volcano in the background
2. Wide of Villa A in the Oplontis archeological site
3. Wide of the colonnade entrance of Villa A
4. Mid of fruit trees in the outdoor gardens with Villa A's colonnade and roof tiles in the background
5. Close up of fruit trees in the outdoor gardens with Villa A's colonnade and roof tiles in the background
6. Wide of a tourist sitting in front of the Olympic-size pool of Villa A
7. Mid of a corridor with columns at the entrance of Villa A
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Mattia Buondonno, Oplontis tour guide:
All we see in this villa shows us the luxurious life of Roman aristocracy. The decorations make this villa look like a museum, because we find five rooms with decoration from the1st century B.C, around 50-40 B.C., with the famous second Pompeian style. And then you have other rooms decorated in the style of the last period, before the eruption.
9. Wide of a frescoed wall as tourists enter the room in the background
10. Mid of tourists looking at the frescoes
11. Mid of Buondonno explaining the frescoes
12. Mid, tilt up of the same fresco
13. Close up of the same fresco, showing lavish columns and statues
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Mattia Buondonno, Oplontis tour guide:
Poppaea was a VIP in Rome, very famous. She was very beautiful - Tacitus wrote that even her mother looked fabulous. She was the beauty that enthralled the emperor Nero. Nero was married to Octavia, daughter of Germanicus, but Poppaea managed to cozy-up to Nero, with her husband's help.
15. Wide of tourists inside the ancient corridors of Villa A
16. Wide of tourists walking through a corridor with beams of light
17. Mid of ancient doors, carbonised by the ashes from the Vesuvius
18. Mid, tilt up of a room with colourful frescoes
19. Mid, pan right of carved stuccos along the frame of a room
20. Wide of a classroom of children looking at the frescoes on a wall
21. Mid of a classroom of children looking at the frescoes on a wall
22. Close up of a fresco depicting the faces of two women inside a gold frame
23. Mid of tourists walking by a series of windows
24. Mid of a tree inside an internal garden painted with frescoes
25. Close up of the same fresco, depicting a fountain and birds
26. Mid, tilt up of a fresco depicting fountains
27. Close up of a fresco portraying a basket of figs
Naples - 19 April 2013
28. Wide of Russo Ermolli pulling out a map from her drawers inside her office
29. Mid of Russo Ermolli looking at a map of the Naples coastline
30. Close up of a map showing Torre Annunziata
31. Graphic showing the ancient coastline of Naples
32. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Elda Russo Ermolli, a geologist with the Oplontis Project:
Poppaea's villa in Oplontis had a panoramic location with a view of the gulf of Naples, in fact it was located right above the sea, on a cliff that was about 15 metres high (49 feet high). This cliff was terraced, with gardens that allowed access to the villa even from the shore.
33. Mid, pan right of the 12th-century replica of a Roman map called Tabula Peutingeriana
34. Close up of the Oplontis location on the Tabula Peutingeriana
35. Mid of Professor Russo Ermolli looking at a graphic from the Oplontis Project most recent research
36. Close up of the graphic of the geological strada below the Oplontis Villa A
37. Close up Russo Ermolli pointing at the geological strada on her computer
38. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Elda Russo Ermolli, a geologist with the Oplontis Project:
Torre Annunziata - 17 April 2013
39. Wide of tourists entering the Oplontis villa with a column in the foreground
40. Wide of the entrance to the Oplontis villa
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In Torre Annunziata, near Naples, archaeologists are
approaching the end of a seven-year project that will
eventually reveal the best preserved Roman villa in
the world. So far, 46 rooms have been unearthed from
beneath the same layer of volcanic ash that devastated,
yet preserved, the town of Pompei in AD 79. The villa
was once one of the largest residences in the Roman
Empire town of Oplontis and its owner clearly spent
large sums on its decorations. The stunning wall
paintings are as vivid as if they had been executed
yesterday. This report looks at the best of them and at
other important features of the project.
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Villa di Oplontis, Poppaea Sabina, Villa of Emperor Nero of Rome Buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
the villa was owned by the Imperial Emperor Nero, but that it was largely used by his notorious second wife, Poppaea, she was a manipulative, scheming woman who married a friend of Nero in order to get close to him. Poppaea seduced Nero and divorced her husband, then convinced him to murder his mother and first wife, leaving her free to step into the role of Empress.
Poppaea filled her villa on the sea with statuary and employed the best artisans to cover the walls with exquisite frescoes and create elaborate mosaic floors. One whole wing housed servants, who would have tended to the needs of guests during lavish parties (some say orgies) that were held around a large swimming pool.
Pompei per tutti
Il 2 dicembre è stato ufficialmente inaugurato, per la Giornata Europea dei Disabili del 3 dicembre, “Pompei per tutti. Percorsi di accessibilità e superamento delle barriere architettoniche“ che consente a chiunque, persone con difficoltà motorie e genitori con con passeggino, di attraversare in maniera agevole l’area archeologica di Pompei. Oltre 3 km di percorso, dall’ingresso di Piazza Anfiteatro a Porta Marina passeggiando lungo le arterie principali della città con accesso ai più significativi edifici e domus.
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The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Researchers believe that the town was founded in the seventh or sixth century BC by the Osci or Oscans. It came under the domination of Rome in the 4th century BC, and was conquered and became a Roman colony in 80 BC after it joined an unsuccessful rebellion against the Roman Republic. By the time of its destruction, 160 years later, its population was approximately 11,000 people, and the city had a complex water system, an amphitheatre, gymnasium and a port.The eruption killed the city's inhabitants and buried it under tons of ash. Evidence for the destruction originally came from a surviving letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder, an admiral of the Roman fleet, who tried to rescue citizens. The site was lost for about 1,500 years until its initial rediscovery in 1599 and broader rediscovery almost 150 years later by Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre in 1748. The objects that lay beneath the city have been well preserved for centuries because of the lack of air and moisture. These artifacts provide an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city during the Pax Romana. During the excavation, plaster was used to fill in the voids between the ash layers that once held human bodies. This allowed one to see the exact position the person was in when he or she died.
Pompeii has been a tourist destination for over 250 years. Today it has UNESCO World Heritage Site status and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.
Eruption of Vesuvius:
By the 1st century AD, Pompeii was one of a number of towns located near the base of the volcano, Mount Vesuvius. The area had a substantial population which grew prosperous from the region's renowned agricultural fertility. Many of Pompeii's neighboring communities, most famously Herculaneum, also suffered damage or destruction during the 79 eruption. The eruption occurred on August 24, just one day after Vulcanalia, the festival of the Roman god of fire, including that from volcanoes.
Pompeii and other cities affected by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The black cloud represents the general distribution of ash and cinder. Modern coast lines are shown.
A multidisciplinary volcanological and bio-anthropological study of the eruption products and victims, merged with numerical simulations and experiments, indicate that at Vesuvius and surrounding towns heat was the main cause of death of people, previously believed to have died by ash suffocation. The results of the study, published in 2010, show that exposure to at least 250 °C (482 °F) hot surges at a distance of 10 kilometres (6 miles) from the vent was sufficient to cause instant death, even if people were sheltered within buildings.
The people and buildings of Pompeii were covered in up to twelve different layers of tephra, in total 25 meters deep, which rained down for about 6 hours. Pliny the Younger provided a first-hand account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius from his position across the Bay of Naples at Misenum, in a version which was written 25 years after the event. His uncle, Pliny the Elder, with whom he had a close relationship, died while attempting to rescue stranded victims. As Admiral of the fleet, Pliny the Elder had ordered the ships of the Imperial Navy stationed at Misenum to cross the bay to assist evacuation attempts. Volcanologists have recognised the importance of Pliny the Younger's account of the eruption by calling similar events Plinian.
The Villas of Tivoli (EN) - Rome - Latium - Italia.it
Tivoli, just 18.6 miles outside Rome, hosts two splendid UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Hadrian's Villa and Villa d'Este.
Hadrian's Villa, commissioned by Roman Emperor Hadrian, lets visitors relive the pomp and circumstance of Ancient Rome's places of power, while the Baroque Villa d'Este enchants, with its water ballet and spectacular gardens and fountains.
In these villas, art, history, architecture and human genius merge to offer us a truly unique experience!
Pompeii
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Exploring The Roman Harbour of Underwater Pompeii
Studying the submerged archaeological remains of Portus Iulius and the Roman villas of the Baia Underwater Park. Recognition -- unique in the world -- of structures, mosaics, sculptures, amphora and Roman pottery at the Baia Underwater Park.