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@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 8:01 AM

HOPE (SPES) in monochrome grisaille by Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel. Hope is portrayed as a winged female figure elevating & reaching her hands upward to an angel holding a divine crown. 👑

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #frescofriday 🏺

Hope is portrayed as a winged female figure elevating and reaching her hands upward to an angel holding a divine crown.

Hope is portrayed as a winged female figure elevating and reaching her hands upward to an angel holding a divine crown. This is a detail of the angel with the crown in the right hand top corner.

@carausius286.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 7:35 AM

This poignant fresco shows Hermes leading little children into a flowering meadow in the Underworld. It looks beautiful and no doubt provided comfort to the parents of 8 year old Octavia Paulina, in whose tomb the fresco was found.

🕰️C3rdAD
🏛️Museo Nazionale Romano
📷 mine
#FrescoFriday

@observethedate.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 7:08 AM

#FoxFriday
#FrescoFriday
#FridayFaces
#FrogForFriday
#FrogFriday
#FungiFriday
#hff (photography - half frame Friday)
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
#PharosFriday
#PhilatelyFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#VikingFriday

@lucabergamasco.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 5:29 AM

Greetings from the 15th century. #fresco #FrescoFriday

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 1:06 PM

An eye for detail: 🐴 Reflection of horse in the duck pond in a fresco series by Benozzo Gozzoli. Magi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi.

🦆 More about the amazing Benozzo: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/art-unmedi...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #design #horse #duck #frescofriday

Reflection of horse in the duck pond in a fresco series by Benozzo Gozzoli. Magi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi.

@lucabergamasco.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 6:13 AM

#aDoorableThursday #ThursGate ( with a hint of #FrescoFriday )

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:31 PM

"You can tell the sun in his jealous sky / When we walked in fields of gold." For #FrescoFriday, the House of #Livia on the #Palatine. Painted c. 30 BCE during the ascendancy of #Augustus, this Second Style wall depicts his Golden Age of perpetual abundance. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FRESCO WITH GARLANDS AND COLUMNS, HOUSE OF LIVIA, C. 30 BCE. PALATINE HILL

A section of ancient Roman fresco displaying the Second Style of wall painting. Though Livia only inhabited this house after Augustus's death in 14 CE, it was decorated circa 30 BCE, contemporary with the nearby House of Augustus. The flat wall is painted to create a three-dimensional illusion, with fluted columns framing a central panel. Suspended between them is a heavy garland of pine foliage, leaves, and round fruits. Crucially, these plants are shown fruiting and flowering simultaneously, defying the seasons. This impossible ripening is a visual manifesto of the Augustan Aurea Ætas or Golden Age of perpetual abundance. The artist painted subtle cast shadows behind the ribbon-tied garland to enhance the depth. Above is a horizontal yellow frieze featuring faintly-sketched, monochrome sacro-idyllic landscapes showing rural shrines.

@lindsaypowell.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:18 PM

For #FrescoFriday

@lindsaypowell.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:15 PM

A seated woman playing a kithara in one of three wall paintings from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, Main Reception Hall (H). Roman, Late Republican, ca. 50-40 BC. In the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 1903(03.14.5). Photo is my own.
#FrescoFriday

@druidtombraider.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:30 AM

Fresco of a Roman War Galley from Pompeii, 1st century CE, courtesy of Mary Harrsch. #FrescoFriday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #RomanArt #Art

@partialhistorians.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:16 AM

Found in the House of the Dioscuri at Pompeii, Pan seems to turn away from Hermaphroditus while Hermaphroditus seems to hold Pan closer…

#FrescoFriday

🏛️ MAN Napoli, inv. 27700.

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:26 AM

🐴 Some of the magnificent horses in the The Procession of the Youngest King by Benozzo Gozzoli, c. 1459-1464.

Read more about this wonderful artist & his unique art 🧲 🐎: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/three-hidd....

#frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #italy #horse

Details of a beautiful horse in the The Procession of the Youngest King by Benozzo Gozzoli, c. 1459-1464.

Two beautiful horses, one white, one brown, in the The Procession of the Youngest King by Benozzo Gozzoli, c. 1459-1464.

@observethedate.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:12 AM

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:28 AM

#Frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology

@lucabergamasco.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:05 AM

#ThursGate #aDoorableThursday #FrescoFriday #fresco

@ilarialoi.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:48 PM

An extremely (and maybe surprisingly) cute Roman dolphin from the Villa of Orpheus in Tridentum (modern Trento in northern Italy).
#frescoFriday

@druidtombraider.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:09 PM

Section of a Roman fresco depicting participants in a Bacchanalia found at Rome; courtesy of TimeTravelRome. #FrescoFriday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 10:51 AM

Stairway to heaven. For #FrescoFriday we examine a rare #fresco from #Domitian's palace on the #Palatine. This yellow and purple staircase suggests staff used it to go from private imperial rooms to the magnificent state halls upstairs. Look for the ghostly figures. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FRESCO FRAGMENT FROM THE PALACE OF DOMITIAN, 85-90 CE. PALATINE HILL

A detail of an ancient Roman wall featuring painted fresco decoration. The plaster is painted yellow, divided into rectangular panels by dark purple bands. In the central yellow panel, a delicate double garland hangs across the space, and two ghostly but beautiful female figures stand in the lower register. At the bottom left, the plaster is broken diagonally, revealing the rough wall and a fragment of cipollino marble baseboard. This is one of the few remaining traces of fresco work from Domitian's palace. It originally decorated a stairway ascending from the peltae courtyard to the now-lost upper ground floor, later removed to create a corridor. While the architect Rabirius favoured lavish opus sectile for imperial rooms, this simpler decoration suggests this specific route was used by staff to travel from the private rooms of the imperial family up to the magnificent state halls above.

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:05 AM

#frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians

@johnnythin.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:38 AM

More from the Antibes archaeological museum, this time a charming little Cupid from the wall of a Roman townhouse for #FrescoFriday

Fragments of painted wall plaster representing a curly-haired Cupid with wings on his back