Antiquities Exhibits

After finding the marvelous painting of the altar with Actaeon mural at the House of Sallust by Danish artist Josef Theodor Hansen, yesterday, I hoped that, like Luigi Bazzani, Hansen may have painted an entire series of work from Pompeii. So I searched the web to see if I could find any more.  Although I only found a few more, one of them was this spectacular painting of the tepidarium at the Forum Baths in Pompeii.  Hansen specialized in architectural painting and his attention to detail made his paintings almost photographic. I also noticed that it was not on Wikimedia Commons so I uploaded it so others could use it for teaching and research.   Republican bathhouses often had separate bathing facilities for women and men, but by the 1st century CE mixed bathing was common and the practice was frequently referred to in Martial and Juvenal, as well as in Pliny and Quintilian.  But to Roman moralists like Cato the Elder, bathhouses were a symbol of decadence....

The Archaeological Museum in Cimiez, France. Displays of the Archaeological Museum in Cimiez include finds from excavations in Cimiez and those found in the wrecks of ancient ships sunk near the Côte d’Azur. The museums stands on the site of the Roman city of Cemenelum, capital of the Roman province of Alpes Maritimae. Remains at the site include a public bath complex with a frigidarium, an amphitheater, a paleochristian basi lica and the necropolis where funerary monuments and sarcophagi were recovered. Other objects on display include ceramics and furniture found in the wreck of the Vourmique C which sank near Nice in the 1st century BCE. Image: The Roman remains of Cemenelum near Nice, France courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Ermell.