@chapps

I create digital polychrome reconstructions of ancient Roman sculpture. 🎨 🏳️‍🌈 Bsky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/FpZvDhhQS5 Flickr: https://xitter.cf/t.co/6A89FUANIG

 Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Joined March 2008
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The most popular restoration I've done is the one showing an ordinary man's business in Ancient Rome. xitter.cf/chapps/status/13936867…
Chapps@chapps15 May 2021
My most difficult creative challenge, I present the #polychrome version of this ca. 50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop. *Many* thanks to @DrNWillburger for all her time and help on research and for the original image! #Uffizi #polychromy 1/
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Tres ciudades se unieron para fundar Rodas. Siglos después, su nombre quedaría ligado para siempre al Coloso de Helios, una de las Siete Maravillas del Mundo Antiguo. ¿Dónde pudo alzarse esta gigantesca estatua? Descúbrelo en mi último vídeo de YouTube.
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In a handful of villages in southern Italy, people still speak what may be the last surviving linguistic descendant of "Magna Graecia", the ancient, Classical Greek world that once covered much of southern Italy. The language, unsurprisingly, is called Griko (Γκρίκο). 1/n
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Chapps@chappsOct 11
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The ‘figa’ or ‘higa’ (Spanish) gesture goes very far back, into antiquity. The 1st c. CE Roman pendant below features an agate cameo of an Achelous, a river god, with a figa amulet suspended below. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. 📸 me
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¡Si quieres saber más sobre el ascenso al poder de Constantino y a la vez contemplar la Roma de su época, puedes hacerlo en "La Roma de Constantino"! despertaferro-ediciones.com/…
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"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. – at Rome, Lazio
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.

ALT 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.

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El obelisco de Montecitorio funcionaba como gnomon de esta línea meridiana de unos 150 m. Su sombra marcaba el mediodía y avanzaba o retrocedía a lo largo del año. ¿Quieres saber más sobre la Meridiana de Augusto? ¡Ve a ver mi último vídeo de YouTube!
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breathtaking! unfinished painting of Amazon on horse Ancient Greek vase Princeton Art Museum thanks @LeifWenar
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Bee-women on Scythian gold artifacts (previously identified as snake-bodied women) @LuciaNixon arkeonews.net/2300-year-old-…
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This is how little you can trust this platform to actually spot #AI. I took this photo myself at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, and did minimal color, lighting adjustment. Labeled AI. As you can see from my photo library, I took two shots with my iPhone.
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Estamos por debajo del nivel freático y esta línea meridiana permanece continuamente bajo el agua. Hoy he podido bajar hasta aquí equipado para caminar por este espacio. ¿Qué es y para qué servía? Descúbrelo en mi nuevo vídeo de YouTube.
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Estamos listos para descender a las profundidades de Roma, por debajo de la capa freática, para llegar hasta un lugar reservado para muy pocos: la Meridiana de Augusto. En el nuevo vídeo os enseño qué se esconde aquí abajo. Nos vemos en las profundidades.
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And so it begins! Official cover reveal week as I head to Campania! Awesome!!! Death on the Palatine out thru @iconbooks in April!!! Eight imperial whodunnits! Can't wait! @DariusAryaDigs @pete_savin @Ritterton @romanarchaeouk @MaltonMuseum @romanhistory1 @WittsPat @chapps @pompei79 @DrJEBall @TuckerJones1944
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Samsung hosted this #BritishMuseum event and the publicity backlash is so bad that they apparently pulled down their press release - it’s a dead link now. The question is, why did the BM wait until the day of the event to inform ticket holders of the closure?
Rebecca Manderley@Icing_on_a_CakeOct 2
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They didn’t double sell - the private event was the attendance of a royal and an MP at the newly opened Korea exhibition. So kicked out so the other would have better security. news.samsung.com/global/lee-…

Lee Kun-Hee Collection Expands to Europe With Opening of ‘Korea’ Exhibition at the British Museum -...

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal and leaders from public and private sectors join to

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I cannot even get my head around the #BritishMuseum closing and cancelling tickets people held for the Bayeux Tapestry for a damned politician’s dinner. ‘Just get another ticket’ is not the right answer, considering many have waited months and traveled far to attend. Grotesque.
Dr. Ellen Walker@EllenFWalkerSep 30
Waited since I was 7 years old to see the Bayeux Tapestry. Got in an hour-long online queue to spend £50 on tickets. Got there ahead of time. Stood in a queue for 20 minutes. Then was told halfway through the queue that the gallery was closing. The @britishmuseum stinks 😭
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Negli ultimi mesi se ne parla molto, complice il nuovo film di Christopher Nolan ispirato al capolavoro omerico. Ma a Pompei, Ulisse era già di casa. Nelle domus pompeiane le tappe del suo viaggio verso Itaca erano un soggetto amatissimo per decorare le pareti di casa.
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Dying fabric the medieval way, because you know, medieval people LOVED COLOUR!! youtu.be/tQFtKDWUe3I?si=QyOm…

I Tried Medieval Dyeing

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(83) Emily Wilson recites the opening of The Odyssey in ancient Greek - YouTube youtube.com/shorts/fuUlh-AQW…

Emily Wilson recites the opening of The Odyssey in ancient Greek

Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer’s “The Odyssey” in...

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@GettyMuseumSep 23
Getty is welcoming its first painting by Diego Velázquez, a recently rediscovered portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares. Learn more: gty.art/4ha6I4v
A painted portrait of a man in armor with a red sash. Text reads: Rediscovered portrait by Velazquez joins Getty's collection.

ALT A painted portrait of a man in armor with a red sash. Text reads: Rediscovered portrait by Velazquez joins Getty's collection.

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Si quieres profundizar en la figura de Constantino y en su época, a la vez que disfrutas de una espectacular recreación 3D de la Urbs, hazte con La Roma de Constantino, escrito junto a @par_virtual y editado por @DespertaFerro  despertaferro-ediciones.com/…
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Las intervenciones arqueológicas en la ciudad romana de Singilia Barba en Antequera (Málaga) están sacando a la luz verdaderos tesoros. En la imágenes, el teatro romano antes de ser excavado y la posterior intervención en la que se aprecia parte del graderío en muy buen estado.
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