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30 relations: August Mau, Aurelius Victor, Boscoreale Treasure, Caldarium, Campania, Carbonization, Herculaneum, House of Bourbon, Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Italy), Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Nerium, Nero, Oecus, Oplontis, Peristyle, Platanus, Pompeii, Poppaea Sabina, Province of Naples, Roman villa, Sarno, Sestertius, Sorrento, Suetonius, Torre Annunziata, Triclinium, Trompe-l'œil, Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, World Heritage Committee.
August Mau
August Mau (15 October 1840 – 6 March 1909) was a prominent German art historian and archaeologist who worked with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut while studying and classifying the Roman paintings at Pompeii, which was destroyed with the town of Herculaneum by volcanic eruption in 79 AD.
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Aurelius Victor
Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire.
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Boscoreale Treasure
The Boscoreale Treasure is the name for a large collection of exquisite silver and gold Roman objects discovered in the ruins of an ancient villa at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, southern Italy.
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Caldarium
Caldarium from the Roman Baths at Bath, England. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor. A caldarium (also called a calidarium, cella caldaria or cella coctilium) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex.
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Campania
Campania is a region in Southern Italy.
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Carbonization
Carbonization (or carbonisation) is the conversion of an organic substance into carbon or a carbon-containing residue through pyrolysis or destructive distillation.
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Herculaneum
Located in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum (Italian: Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 AD.
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House of Bourbon
The House of Bourbon is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty.
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Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Italy)
The Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, italic or MiPAAF, is an Italian government department.
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Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio; Vesuvio; Mons Vesuvius; also Vesevus or Vesaevus in some Roman sources) is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.
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Nerium
Nerium oleander is a shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, toxic in all its parts.
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Nero
Nero (Latin: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 15 December 37 – 9 June 68 AD) was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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Oecus
Oecus, the Latinized form of Gr.
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Oplontis
Oplontis was an ancient Roman site near Pompeii in Italy.
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Peristyle
In Hellenistic Greek and Roman architecture a peristyle (from Greek περίστυλος) is a continuous porch formed by a row of columns surrounding the perimeter of building or a courtyard.
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Platanus
Platanus is a genus consisting of a small number of tree species native to the Northern Hemisphere.
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei.
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Poppaea Sabina
Poppaea Sabina (AD 30 – AD 65)—known as Poppaea Sabina the Younger (to differentiate her from her mother) and, after AD 63, as Poppaea Augusta Sabina—was a Roman Empress as the second wife of the Emperor Nero.
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Province of Naples
The Province of Naples (Italian: Provincia di Napoli, Napulitano: Pruvincia 'e Nàpule) was a province in the Campania region of southern Italy; since January 2015 has been replaced by the Metropolitan City of Naples.
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Roman villa
A Roman villa was a country house built for the upper class in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, similar in form to the hacienda estates in the colonies of the Spanish Empire.
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Sarno
Sarno is a town and comune and former Latin Catholic bishopric of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, 20 km northeast from the city of Salerno and 60 km east of Naples by the main railway.
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Sestertius
The sestertius (plural sestertii), or sesterce (plural sesterces), was an ancient Roman coin.
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Sorrento
Sorrento (Surriento) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy.
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Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (c. 69 – after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
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Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata (Torr'Annunziata) is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, region of Campania in Italy.
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Triclinium
A triclinium (plural: triclinia) is a formal dining room in a Roman building.
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Trompe-l'œil
Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.
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Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Wilhelmina Mary Feemster Jashemski (July 10, 1910 – December 24, 2007) was a noted scholar of the ancient site of Pompeii, where her archaeological investigations focused on the evidence of gardens and horticulture in the ancient city.
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World Heritage Committee
The World Heritage Committee selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, monitors the state of conservation of the World Heritage properties, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Poppaea
