Dido, Queen of Carthage

Mennas wife Henuttawi stands in front of a table with food offerings. Tomb of Menna. The Ancient Egyptian artisan Menna was “Scribe of the Fields of the Lord of the Two Lands”,  during the 18th dynasty. Photograph by kairoinfo4u

Every respectable building should have a sphinx on the roof. House of the Vettii, Pompeii

Winged genius, wall fragment. From the peristyle of the villa of P. Fannius Synistor in Boscoreale, near Pompeii.

Roman, late 1st century BC.

Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Roman, last decade of the 1st century B.C.

Still life with fishes and mussels.  Fresco from the House of the Chaste Lovers, Pompeii.

Workers in a fullonica (dyer’s shop),  Fresco from the fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

Fragment of a Yellow Fresco Panel with Muse (1 - 75 AD), Roman, from Boscoreale. The Getty Villa.

Fresco from the Sala di Grande Dipinto, Scenes in the Villa de Misteri in Pompeii

Mural from the tomb of Menna, who was Scribe of the Fields of the Lord of the Two Lands, probably during the reign of Thutmose IV, in the 18th dynasty

Fresco from the Villa of the Farnesina by William Storage

A scene from Euripides’ Andromache: Orestes kills Neoptolemus at the altar of Apollo at Delphi.  Fresco from the winter triclinium of the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii.

Selene and Endymion.  Fresco from the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

Every respectable building should have a sphinx on the roof. House of the Vettii, Pompeii

Ceiling from the tomb of Sennefer, the Ancient Egyptian noble.

Usually referred to as the “Tomb of Vines”.