Art for Roman Holidays In ancient Pompeii and other leisure spots, villas were decorated to convey taste, status and nostalgia By Susan Delson Feb. 17, 2023 1:52 pm ET ...

The frescoes feature vibrant yellow panels, a rare design choice in Roman wall painting, framed by bold black intervals and richly decorated with images of birds, fruit, flowers, and lyres.

The destruction of Roman Pompeii in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in volcanic ash, was a horrific event. Plaster casts made of hollows in the dense ash, the spaces once filled by ...

Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster ...

The depictions included bright yellow panels with soft green borders (a rare color in Roman art), images of birds, flowers, lyres, fruit, candelabras, instruments, and mistletoe.

The wall’s most popular attraction, the sprawling hillside complex of Housesteads Roman Fort, sees some 100,000 visitors per year. But only 7,000 people hike the full length of the wall annually.

Archaeological ‘jigsaw’ reveals 2,000-year-old Roman wall paintings It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.

The San Antonio Museum of Art's latest exhibition features 65 wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, silver vessels and pieces of cameo glass created in Roman Italy between 100 B.C. and A.D. 250.

Archaeology & History A ‘Titanic Puzzle’ of Ancient Roman Fresco Fragments Marks Thrilling Discovery It took three months of painstaking work to put the 'puzzle' together.

Art World Rare Roman Wall Painting Discovered on London Construction Site This is its first time being seen in "nearly 2,000 years." ...