Sunday, February 12, 2012

Pompeii villa opens in Paris, but Roman ruins remain at risk in Italy

More than 200 objects given to the Musée Maillol in Franco-Italian joint effort to highlight the difficulties of the Unesco World Heritage Site

A device that heats and cools drinks using either coal or snow, a boiler to heat the bath water and a system of floor heating: inventions may seem to modern housing - but the Romans got there While some 2,000 years separate us from the Roman civilization, a recreation of the first century of the Roman city of Pompeii have these technological innovations, and more, and the sophisticated art.

More than 200 treasures and artifacts are on loan to the Musée Maillol in Paris, an Italian-French collaboration that highlights the risk for the future of Pompeii and Herculaneum. A few months ago, an important building of Pompeii collapsed under heavy rains, and the site in Italy is so desperate for funds that Unesco can withdraw your World Heritage Site status.

work includes loan fees and marble sculptures that could have been found in a

triclinium (dining room),

culinary

(kitchen) and

balneum (bath), among other parts of the house of a wealthy landowner and magistrate, or merchant.

exhibits include frescoes depicting Dionysus and other gods that cover entire walls of a recreation room with a
tablinus

(study). The most spectacular artifacts are a vase on his head like a woman, and jewelry whose designs belie his age.


The exhibition also reflects the approach of the Romans "liberal with sex. These houses could have been an area where slaves were prostitutes as a source of household income.


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