Zefiro e Clori<\/i> focuses on a wonderful fresco from Pompeii now in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.The large fresco, measuring 198 cm in height by 258 cm in width, was created in the Nero period, i.e. 50\u201460 AD, and was found in the House of the Ship, which was discovered in Pompeii in early 1826, but finally cleared of all the accumulated rubble only at the end of that year. Even at the time, those who unearthed the fresco depicting Zephyr and Chloris realized they were before one of the finest paintings in Pompeii.
\nThe people who were living in the building where this enormous work was painted were probably familiar with Ovid\u2019s stories\u2013not just those describing gods and mortals who changed form so as to love or to escape undesired attentions, but also the stories that explained the origins of the festivals in the Roman calendar, to be remembered each month. And the month of May included the story of Zephyr and Chloris.
\nNo other painting in Pompeii depicts this particular subject, even though individual figures or groups were obviously popular models and recur in several other houses in the town.
\nValeria Sampaolo provides an illuminating step-by-step commentary of the fresco, thanks to the superb and hitherto unpublished photographs of Luigi Spina. Together we examine the figures and unravel the symbols and mythological references of this magnificent work.<\/p>\n
Valeria Sampaolo<\/strong> is head conservator of the collections of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. She is the author of several publications and her research concentrates on the first excavations in the Vesuvius area and on establishing the provenance of the museum\u2019s frescoes, to which she has dedicated a new exhibition. Zefiro e Clori focuses on a wonderful fresco from Pompeii now in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.The large fresco, measuring 198 cm in height by 258 cm in width, was created in the Nero period, i.e. 50\u201460 AD, and was found in the House of the Ship, which was discovered in Pompeii in early…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15569,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[46],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15440","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-archaeology","7":"collana-oggetti-rari-e-preziosi-al-mann-en","8":"disponibilita-si","9":"description-off","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/15440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=15440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLuigi Spina<\/strong> is a photographer. His work focuses on amphitheatres and the civic dimension of the sacred, the links between art and faith, the search for ancient cultural roots, and the physical impact of classical sculpture. He has published L\u2019Ora Incerta<\/i> (2014), The Buchner Boxes<\/i> (2014), Hemba<\/i> (2017), and Mythical Diary<\/i> (2017) and has collaborated with Valeria Sampaolo and 5 Continents Editions to create the series Oggetti rari e preziosi al Museo Archeologico di Napoli<\/i>, which to date includes Memorie del Vaso Blu<\/i> (2016), Amazzonomachia<\/i> (2017), Centauri<\/i> (2017), and Sette sapienti <\/i>(2018). He has also published The Dancers at the Villa of the Papyri<\/i> for 5 Continents Editions\u2019 Tailormade series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"