Isn't she lovely?A fresco found at Stabiae, preserved by the same eruption that buried Pompei in 79 AD.
Here are 8 more of the frescos now on display in Ravenna. How I wish they'd come to New York!
NY Times article
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She is lovely indeed. She has such grace in simple movement.
And to think this art was buried for 1900 years! What we have of the past isn't necessarily all or the best just what chanced to survive. This truth continually amazes me. In this case, though, it is a superb work of art that survived.
Just think - if Mother Nature hadn't so capriciously caused that terrible eruption and buried those cities, we may not even have the little that survived. If these villas had been available, I'm sure looting over the centuries would have decimated the places like the pharoh's tombs in Egypt.
My favorite is Flora!
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