#villa of livia

[paiawon]

villa of livia's garden room fresco, from palazzo massimo

known as ad gallinas albas (of the white hen) because of pliny the elder's tale in his naturalis historia, recounting the myth of livia, newly bethroted to octavian augustus, having a white hen holding a laurel branch in its beak dropped into her lap by an eagle, interpreted as an omen of good fortune.

full view on tiktok

#archaeoblr #archaeology #roman archaeology #roman art #ancient rome #roman history #roman fresco #ancient art #villa of livia #villa di livia #octavian augustus #rome #roma #palazzo massimo #museum #roman museum #paiawon.txt #art history #historyblr #artblr #when in rome #studyblr #tagamemnon

[uncleclaudius]

Some pictures of the visual reconstruction of the Villa of Livia, known in Antiquity as Villa Ad Gallinas Albas (the Villa of White Chickens). It belonged to Augustus' wife Livia Drusilla. According to the story, the eagle once dropped a hen holding a laurel branch in its beak into Livia's lap. At the advice of the soothsayer, the branch was planted, creating a laurel tree garden at the premises while the white hens roamed around to secure the good fortune of her family. Whenever a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty celebrated a Triumph, their laurel wreaths were made from these trees.

The famous statue of Augustus of Prima Porta and wall frescos of a garden are from this villa.

#villa of livia #livia #livia drusilla #emperor augustus #augustan rome #ancient rome #the julio-claudian dynasty #julio claudian dynasty #the trees all died towards the end of nero's reign #spelling also the end of dynasty

[a-chthonic-icarus]

Frescoes from the Villa of Livia, second half of the 1st century BC, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Massimo.

Click photos to see full image.

credit: https://www.milestonerome.com/2018/04/the-painted-garden-from-the-villa-of-livia-for-naturemw/

#roman art #livia drusilla #villa di livia #art #fresco #painting #ancient art #Livia is a very interesting historical figure #Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Massimo #ancient rome #archaeology

[fenharel]

tagged by @leviiackrman to use this meiker for some ocs, thank you! tagging @rkyloren, @arlathen, @shadowglens, @baldurians, @thefathersbride, @risingsh0t, @queennymeria, @necroticpetals, @stephschoices, @denerims, @solasan, @faarkas, @hawkeshep, & you!

CASSIA LORELEY (pillars of eternity) ✨  LIVIA (marvel) MIA MONTERO (body count if) ✨  ECHO VALDÉS (cyberpunk 2077)

#cassia loreley #livia #mia montero #echo valdés #ocs tag #picrew #considering livia can shapeshift.. her hanging around in the sea of alfheim as a mermaid at some point seems canon 😂 #the body count villa is too crazy for mia - she's simply leaving it as a mermaid now sdkjfhskdjf #echo is still doing her mercenary work as a mermaid.. siren style perhaps? 🤔 #this AU is too fun hahaha

[lagaleriapopurri]

Villa Livia Mural

#Villa Livia Mural

[eclectic-and-passionate-blog]

A trip to Villa di Livia 🥰

#italy #rome #villa di livia #archeologicalsite

[itsloriel]

Painted Garden, Villa of Livia, detail with pomegranate bush by Steven Zucker, Smarthistory co-founder

Painted Garden, removed from the triclinium (dining room) in the Villa of Livia Drusilla, Prima Porta, fresco, 30-20 B.C.E. (Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo, Rome)

[ancientcharm]

Augustus of Prima Porta (1st Century) and the reconstruction of its original colors.

Emma Zahonero and Jesús Mendiola, from the MV Arte Fine Arts and Restoration Workshop, have been in charge of restoring the colors to the Augustus of Prima Porta sculpture, in a laborious process that has lasted exactly three months, without counting the time dedicated to the research and documentation The amazing reconstruction was done in 2014, due to the 2000th anniversary of the first Roman Emperor's death. The statue of Augustus of Prima Porta is therefore probably the most accurate polychrome recreation of those that have been made to date based on scientific and archaeological investigations. The Augustus of Prima Porta is a statue of Caesar Augustus that was discovered on April 20, 1863 in the Prima Porta villa, belonging to Livia, Augustus's wife, on the outskirts of Rome.

Both the sculptures and the temples and monuments of the ancient world were not without color as has been believed for centuries. Even today it is hard for us to imagine those statues, columns, obelisks, pyramids and legendary temples, full of color. But they were very colorful; The colors of the statues' clothing, footwear, skin, and hair were accurately represented. The time made those colors fade. During the Renaissance, a cultural movement in Western Europe, whose idea was to revive Greco-Roman art, wonderful statues without the slightest color were sculpted in marble because they did not know that ancient statues had colors that had disappeared. In these pictures we can see a faithful reconstruction of how the ancient Romans saw one of the famous sculpture that depicts the young Emperor Augustus.

#Ancient Rome #archaeology #sculpture #Roman empire #roman emperors

[auroraborealis22]

Wall fresco painting From the subterranean hall of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta. 40—20 BCE. Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

[evita-shelby]

National Anthem

Chapter 10

Cw: mentions of sex (duh) period typical misogyny, some racism and technically a curse

Tag list: @thegreatdragonfruta @zablife @cljordan-imperium @call-sign-shark

Easter 1923

Ever since he was a kid, Jack’s dreamed of owning the world.

His apartment had been good, modern and spacious and perfect for a bachelor. When his ambition decided he needed a wife to complete his success, he looked for a perfect starter house.

One that would be seen as the beginning of his rise, one that would become the steppingstone for his future.

He’d carried Eva over the threshold just as he’d done when he took her to the townhouse he shared with Carrie for Gina’s sake. He had fucked her in every surface of the house, built a marriage that would have everyone doubt this had been an arrangement made in the span of a week.

Their current home was great, perfect for a growing family with a long veranda for the children, a garage that was every middle-class car aficionado’s dream and yet it won’t be long before they leave it too.

Jack never dreams small; he hadn’t known exactly what this dream home would be until he saw Rockwood Hall.

J.D. Rockefeller had made the second largest mansion in all of America, so grand that his own descendants had to sell it after his death. So grand only the Rileys could afford it now that they gained government contracts through his connections.

“We should get one of these.” He says as he takes Rosie in his arms and the boys run off to play with the other children.

Little Jack turns back long enough to hug his mother goodbye and Little Joey is already yelling at the boys he met at the last family gathering. They gather with her family for the big holidays after that fiasco during the first thanksgiving when the twins were born.

They’d spend Easter here, the 4th of July at home, come here for September 16th before the boys start their first day of school –of which he’s taking the day off work because Eva said so--- and miss Florida because Eva was due in November.

Katherine Drusilla Nelson, Duchess of Devonshire and conceived in the most coveted bed in the world on Valentine’s Day. Named for his late elder sister who died of consumption along with Gina and their mother, and for Eva’s aunt, the formidable Olivia Drusilla Riley de Souza.

Livia doesn’t like him, told him to his face and repeated it that first Thanksgiving they hosted in 1919. Thought he was beneath them and unworthy of her favorite niece. But she practically raised Eva because her mother got the baby blues and so he put up with her…enough to have her share his daughter’s name.

“I like the one we rented in Hyannis Port for July 4th last year, Malcom Cottage, was it? Although I am partial to the villa in Florida.” Eva mentions acting as if they had to choose between one. She grew up in several houses, always moving about with the parents or relatives caring for her when she wasn’t in school.

“Why settle for one, when we can have it all?” It’s like when she asked if they could keep the tradition of middle names for their children because the two of them also had middle names, she didn’t even need to ask to know the answer is always yes.

Besides his witch of a wife has never been wrong before, never will be if you ask him.

“About fucking time, I hate telling people you live in the suburbs, that’s so middle class.” Gina said making her dear uncle reprimand her for swearing in front of the children.

“Language, Gina.”

While Rosie struggled with talking, she’d picked up swearing with ease. She learned to say shit from hearing Jack hurt himself in the garage one fucking time.

Their sweet little angel smiled impishly and muttered the word ‘fuck’ as she bit the gold crucifix they got her for Easter.

Well, they were never gonna make angels anyways.

Family gatherings were fine, for the most part. Sure, her aunt would make backhanded remarks towards Jack in her face, while also outright insulting him outright the moment her back was turned, it went well mostly.

It wasn’t because he was American, new money nor a gangster. It was simply because he wasn’t Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, the man Livia had picked out for her like he was a new dress she’d gifted her.

Vanderbilt seemed nice, but he was rather boring. Well, boring in comparison to Jack who then had desecrated a confessional with her and boldly taken her to his place where they planned their future after he made her scream herself hoarse in pleasure.

Had Jack not been so good in bed ---and out of it--- maybe Eva would have been Mrs. Vanderbilt and kept the rebellious Vanderbilt heir from being bankrupt and disinherited from his family.

“I just don’t see what you see in him.” Livia looked at the man as if he were something the cat dragged in as he roughhoused with the boys in the garden. “He’s too full of himself, he has no class, he’s too hairy, his features all look like his face is too big to hold them, what did he have that Cornelius didn’t besides a business degree and a gang?”

Eva always gets this question and she’d just shrug and answer with something equal parts vulgar and the usual ‘I don’t really know’, this time she says the one thing that matters to someone who married for money and influence. “Because he will take us places we never even reached in Mexico, and that sweet little boy named after his father, will be the youngest president this country will have.”

Her aunt is impressed, she had been disappointed thinking Eva was like her mother who married because she saw true love with her father even if he had nothing but a stolen watch to his name.

Eva was not like her mother, she could never be happy with a man who didn’t want more, Jack had ambition and lucky for her, would only ever be hers.

“I suppose I can see something about him now. If he is taking us further than we ever could’ve done at home, I could even call him my nephew. After all people marry into our family, they never marry out of here.” Her red-haired aunt changed her tune exactly like the witch had known it would happen.

Jack is wary of Livia’s sudden acceptance for the rest of the day, utterly stumped at why she’d stop being such a bitch to him. But he enjoys it, loves pushing her buttons to see how long this kindness lasts.

“What did you tell her when you were out on the balcony with her?” he asks when they are finally alone in their luxurious suite complete with a nursery. The boys were having a sleepover with her cousin Francisco’s son across the wing and Rosie had claimed the princess bed in her own room.

Last time they were here, the Nelsons hadn’t been able to enjoy the bed as they had hoped and now wanted to make up for it. And they had since they put the children to bed.

“She asked why I chose you that day and I answered honestly for once.” Eva answered teasing him, toying with the curly hairs on his chest knowing he would guess wrong.

“You told your aunt we defiled a church for our first date?” he asks, taken aback by it. Everyone knew they had obviously fucked while on the maybe ten dates they had. Once they’d been so insatiable for each other they’d snuck off at dinner to fuck in a broom closet.

“God, no, she would’ve killed the two of us.” Eva shook her head. “I told her little Jack Nelson Junior’s going to be president of the united fucking states of America. If she still doesn’t like you after that, Junior might remember it when he’s living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

“Threatening your auntie for me, Evie. How sweet of you. You deserve a reward.” He is so proud of her and touched by what she did that he adds a spontaneous, “I love you.”

He is not fond of saying it in public, but oh he is as sweet as honey the moment the doors close. Usually, it is her who says it first these days.

“I love you too.” Eva kissed him hoping to show her love in a much more passionate way, but the second Jack gently moved her underneath him they hear Gina’s girlish scream followed by crying and slurs from the blonde girl’s own mouth.

“I told you we shouldn’t have brought her.” Jack groaned and both rushed to find their clothes. “I’m putting her on the next train to Manhattan, let her mother deal with her for the rest of Easter.”

It is uncharitable to say, but if one of the girls hit nineteen-year-old Gina, she likely deserved it. Her time at university had actually made her worse, the only people to blame are the sorority she joined and herself. Unfortunately, she was expelled for her shitty behavior and won’t be going back next week.

They are in New York when they see Shelby again.

He is here to ensure the custody of his son whom the world will believe was Clive’s because Grace wanted to keep her dignity. Jack was here for business matters relating to the will since little Charlie would inherit a portion of Jack’s companies.

“She is cursed, you know.” Eva speaks quietly in rromani so Grace nor Jack know what is being said as she tries to argue for her son’s inheritance. “Even my husband can smell the death on her skin like perfume.”

“If I don’t marry her my son will not be mine.” He admits. There was regret in his voice, a look that said that the Grace he loved was not the woman he is getting to know.

The real Grace wants to be accepted by the class that hates people like Eva, Tommy and even Jack. The real Grace feels no guilt because her happiness is what comes first always. The real Grace is not the persona she crafted in 1919 to get his attention.

But it was too late now.

“She won’t live to see his third birthday, if you marry her, you will go mad with her death knowing Polly Gray’s curse came true because of you.” The witch warns him, as much as she hates Grace for breathing she doesn’t want the blonde dead.

“Your husband wants her gone from America even if it kills her.” he points out.

Jack wants her dead for what she did to Clive, for what she did to their IRA contacts and because she is just as phony as the rest of her ilk.

“If a woman drove your friend to suicide for a man in love with a mirage of her, you would hate her too.” Eva replied honestly making Shelby wince.

“You witches think you know everything, don’t you?” he deflects thinking he can fool her like he fools Grace.

“That’s because we do. Come February of next year and you will be burying her as Mrs. Shelby and yourself as the fool who killed her. If you let her and the boy go, she will hate you but live to raise her son and see her grandchildren. Do you love her enough to let her go once and for all?”

Grace leaves the lawyer’s offices with the threat of having Charlie MacMillan’s true paternity exposed on every tabloid here and across the pond if she marries Tommy Shelby because even Jack doesn’t want her blood on his hands. She can have respectability and life, or death and infamy attached to the Caron and Burgess names the second she becomes Mrs. Shelby.

And yet that same summer they receive an invitation from Grace for their wedding in January of 1924 at Arrow House, the estate she doesn’t know he bought with May in mind. Her family will not even stick around for the funeral out of the shame she brought them.

In the end, Grace dies because she refused to move on from Thomas Shelby no matter how hard he tried to drive her away.

#evacore #national anthem fic #jack nelson #jack nelson x eva smith #eva smith shelby #jack nelson x oc

[ikchen]

So I’m sick with Covid (RIP me) so I have time to answer random Archaeology / Egyptology questions, and I just saw this on twitter so lemme nerd around a bit:

“Can anyone tell me, in the surviving Roman frescos - like pictured - is the pale green representative of the colour at the time of painting or is it less vibrant than the other colours due to differential fading?“ ¹

And the answer is, as with most things: Both, kinda?

a) green tends to fade fast, you notice this a lot with green hair, it’s bright for like the first 2 washes, and then bam, you’re left with swamp hair.

b) the pigments they used, back then, were mostly based on two minerals:

Celadonite (K(Mg,Fe2+)(Fe3+,Al)Si4O10(OH)2) and Glauconite (K,Na)(Fe3+,Al,Mg)2[(Si,Al)4O10(OH)2]), both of which are more of a grey-green or blue-green. ²

Now looking at other examples of green pigment in Roman art you notice relatively quickly that they mostly used darker shades of green (jewel tones), and highlighted them in yellow, like in the Villa of Livia in Prima Porta:

Let’s look at the different greens here:

As you can see, they’re all either very yellow-toned, or jewel-toned. Except, to our eyes, they fresco looks pretty accurate to an IRL garden, right?

Finally, they also occasionally used Copper(II) acetate ( Cu2(OAc)4(H2O)2 ) which gives you a blueish-green pigment. You can spot that on older copper roofs or statues that contain copper. The colour this pigment produces is also not what we’d nowadays call a “bright” green.

Compare that to the green used in Egyptian wall paintings, and you’ll notice they used a lot of the same green pigments, most of which are copper-based: ³

- Malachite Verdigris (CuCO3 Cu(OH)2 Cu(CH3COO)2 (Copper based) - Chrysocolla(Cu,Al)2H2Si2O5(OH)4·nH2OA (Copper based) - Copper chlorides Cu2Cl(OH)3 (Copper based) - Egyptian blue or Egyptian green CaCuSi4O10 Cu glass (Copper based) - Green earthK(Mg,Fe2+)(Fe3+,Al)[Si2O10](OH)2 (K,Na)(Fe3+,Al,Mg)2(Si,Al)4O10 (same green pigmets the Romans used)

Looking at this, it’s no surprise that most “green” things in Egyptian art are actually more of a blue-ish colour, fe. these wall-paintings from the tomb of Nebamun (18th dynasty):

Which brings me to another interesting point: The Egyptians called the sea/ocean the wD-wr, the “great-green” - sure, they had a word to denote “blue”, related to the word for lapis lazuli (xsbD - lapis lazuli-coloured) - but they still called the ocean green :)

¹: https://twitter.com/alisonatkin/status/1554788114937282565

²: Nele Welter, Untersuchungen von Pigmenten in römischer Wandmalerei und antiken Gläsern, Würzburg 2008.

³: https://www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/part-one/4/

#Archaeology #egyptology #pigments #rocks #geology #kinda #ask box is open #image-heavy #stef rambles about things

[timot-ei]

Ridlee did lots of repotting of plants and improving the house today. I swanned about and supervised. A very important job - needs special robes.

BG is inspired by the painted garden from the Villa of Livia. Gorgeous stuff and well worth a look!

#furry #furry art #furry oc #sfw furry #timot-ei #fox #ridlee

[dotieeee]

so we all know the next chapter is gonna be a smutty smutty spicy chapter! but... can we get a sneak peak in what to expect.....? pretty please?

But of course, my dear anon!! Spoilers ahead ---

Uncle Cas actually gives a speech at the wedding reception lmaooo and he makes it as passive aggressive as he can and Nellie can't help but hold Snowball's hand just to placate him during the ordeal.

Snowball takes her to his Corso penthouse for their wedding night, where he reveals to Nellie he wants to build his family there like his father did in this twisted sense of sentimentality. The room they'll be using is well, his parents' old master bedroom because in his mind that's where his father built his legacy and that's where he'll do it as well. Again he's fucking sick that way. He also reveals moving Tigris and Grandma'am to his newer apartment so he can fully reap the benefits of having Ma cook and keep an eye on his new wife lmaooo

Also, beach honeymoon - they're gifted a 5-Day stay at a private villa, with their own private pool and private beach access (let your imagination run wild lmaooo) just know there be fucking in most corners of that villa

Also, Nellie asks for a favour from Livia which I won't spoil!!

#spoilers #smutty spoilers #young!coriolanus snow smut

[bdlands]

distraught that I only found out ab a perfume based on the garden landscape in livia’s villa when my roman history classes are ending in two weeks

#my mediveal courses next semester will yield sooo much perfume innovation though… #diptyque l’eau and kilian gold knight are the first moves I think 🖊

[eclectic-and-passionate-blog]

Winter musk ❤️

#italy #rome #villa di livia #winter #musk

[neptunemagia]

#magia record #mitama yakumo #kanagi izumi #livia meideros #yozuru sasame #sudachi sawa #mikage yakumo #sakurako hiiragi #rumor of the eternal sakura #karin misono #kagome satori #nayuta satomi #puella care #kamihama union