Painting Pompeii
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and villas in the surrounding countryside, but the catastrophe also preserved many richly painted frescoes that enlivened the often dark and claustrophobic rooms of Roman houses.
Minerva explores how this interior world of colour was created...
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