✨Down by the harbour ✨
This idyllic landscape scene is from the Casa del Frutteto (House of the Orchard), at Pompeii. The figures on the shore seem to signal to the vessel in the distance.
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✨The Farnese Hercules✨
He’s larger than life in more ways that one! This massive and impressive sculpture is thought to be based on a Greek bronze sculpture by Lysippos or someone close to him created in the fourth century BCE.
With all the accoutrements he posseses from his club to the skin of the Nemean lion, it is perhaps the apples of the Hesperides hidden behind his back that are the most surprising detail.