Tuesday, March 25, 2014

More Ercolano

Our guide told me that I looked like Robert Redford's daughter. I'm taking that as a complement. 


First Style Roman Wall painting ( not marble but paint)...colored zones made to look like marble.

Woman's Bath (changing room)

mosaic floor in changing room



The Tepadarium

Our guide...facinating.

Bath


House of Neptune and Amphitrite ( below)
glass paste wall mosaic. 
Decorations in the summer dining room ( triclinium)...

Nyphaeum with sells and lava forms...theatrical in nature with masks on top.
signed by the artists " Alexander of Athens, painted" 

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