Rick Steves' Europe. Art Bites 120: The Ruins of Pompeii and Its Art. Clip | 5m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The excavated site of Pompeii gives a revealing look at a great Roman city.

See Stunning Photos of Pompeii’s Wall Paintings and Mosaics, Now Compiled in a New Book The striking images were shot by photographer Luigi Spina. The house of Ceii is pictured in Pompeii.

Using a non-invasive method of analysis, researchers have discovered that the pieces making up the famous Pompeii mosaic of ...

Therefore, for the residents of Pompeii, there was no higher claim to nobility and refinement than embellishing their homes and villas with fine examples of Greek art, philosophy, history, and culture ...

Archaeologists discovered rare paintings, showing Helen of Troy and other Greek figures, in the lost Roman city of Pompeii 2000 years after the deadly volcanic eruption.

The Alexander Mosaic, housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), is one of the most significant works of Roman antiquity.This mosaic, with monumental dimensions (583 x 325 cm) and ...

During 19th-century excavations at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was buried in volcanic ash in 79 C.E. after the […] ...

No, these are different works of art: mosaics! “New Voices in American Mosaics,” an exhibit dedicated to the mosaic as a modern art form, is now on display at the Narrows.

That is a theme of “Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth From Rome and Pompeii” at the San Antonio Museum of Art, which has gathered about 65 wall paintings, relief sculptures, mosaics ...

Mosaics. The mosaics of ancient Rome became a highly developed art form and were usually made from numerous small stone, glass, and shell tiles called tesserae. In “ Plato’s Academy”, the venerable ...