Painting #006 - Ancient Rome

Mount Vesuvius  

The black cloud on the following map represents the general distribution of ash and cinder by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Modern coast lines are shown.

The ash killed, but preserved the ruins for more than 1500 years .....

Mt. Vesuvius as seen from the ruins of Pompeii

Source: Wikipedia

Pompeii  
In the ruins of Pompeii, was "Flora", the fresco of a woman picking flowers with a cornucopia.

Flora
- (30 cm H) 
- Naples National Archaeological Museum  

The fresco depicts a barefoot maiden, once back on the bottom of the green water in the act of picking a tree with her right hand that lays white flowers in a kalathos held in her left hand.  She wears a yellow tunic which leaves bare the right shoulder and is adorned with a garland on her head and armillary in the right arm. 

Source: Naples National Archaeological Museum  

Villa of the Mysteries / Villa dei Misteri
... a well preserved ruin of a Roman Villa which lies 400 m northwest of Pompeii.

Walls of a triclinium

Plato's Academy

- Roman mosaic from Pompeii (86 × 85 cm) 100BC-100AD

- National Archaeological Museum (Naples)

Villa Boscoreale of Publius Fannius Synistor
... 1.5 km north of Pompeii 

second-style wall painting 

Music of Ancient Rome  

Source: Wikipedia