#house of vettii

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‘Ancient Roman’ Solar Roof Tiles Power Pompeii Villa

Ancient Roman ruins at Pompeii have been fitted with invisible solar panels, in a move that will contribute to the archaeological site’s sustainability efforts and cut costs. The innovative panels, which blend into the background by imitating traditional materials, were installed on the House of Cerere, on a thermopolium — a Roman snack bar — and on the House of the Vettii, which recently reopened following 20 years of restoration work.

“They look exactly like the terracotta tiles used by the Romans, but they produce the electricity that we need to light the frescoes,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of the archaeological park of Pompeii, in a press release.

Each year, 3.5 million tourists explore the vast ruins of the ancient Roman city, which was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. But due to Pompeii’s size, energy bills are expensive and conventional methods of providing power across the site can threaten its appearance.

“Pompeii is an ancient city which in some spots is fully preserved,” Zuchtriegel said. “Since we needed an extensive lighting system, we could either keep consuming energy, leaving poles and cables around and disfiguring the landscape, or choose to respect it and save millions of euros.” The new technology will help the archaeological site to cut energy bills and make it more enjoyable, he added.

The invisible solar panels — or “traditional PV tiles” as they are technically known — were created by the Italian company Dyaqua. They can be designed to appear like stone, wood, concrete or brick, and hidden on walls, floors and roofs, according to Elisabetta Quagliato, whose family owns Dyaqua, in the press statement.

“We are an archaeological site but we also want to be a real-life lab for sustainability and the valorization of intangible heritage,” Zuchtriegel said. “Our initiative is not merely symbolic. Through the million tourists who visit us every year, we want to send a message to the world: cultural heritage can be managed differently and in a more sustainable way.”

Other locations in Italy using the invisible solar technology are the commune of Vicoforte in Italy and, soon, Rome’s contemporary art museum Maxxi. Public buildings in Evora, Portugal, and Split, Croatia will also install the panels, according to the press statement.

Pompeii’s recent use of these panels is just the beginning, Zuchtriegel said. “From now on, we will be taking this solution into account for all future renovation and restoration projects.”

By Garry Shaw.

[ancientcharm]

Frescoes. House of the Vettii, Pompeii. 

Photos: @_silvia.vacca_ (Archaeologist • Photographer) IG

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Casa dei Vettii (I sec. a.C. - I sec.), Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.

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House of the Vettii in Pompei, Campania region of Italy

Italian vintage postcard

[tsubasaclones]

the teacher told us to not wait until last minute to do this project because it takes time, which is why i waited until last minute and crammed all the work into 2 days <3

[ancientrome]

Erotic fresco at the House of the Vettii in Pompeii.

[flaroh]

Buried 🌋🙇🏻‍♀️🕊️

Aprils work is Pompeii themed, inspired by photos I took in the House of the Vettii. The illustration is named Buried and is of the remains of the villa’s north courtyard, bathed in streaming morning light, with a mysterious occupant. Even though this scene is modern day, the girl is in Roman dress looking at the viewer. And oh what’s that? She’s slightly transparent...👻

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House of the Vettii

Pompeii home owned by former slaves reopens.

The House of the Vettii, known as Pompeii's Sistine Chapel, has reopened to the public for the first time in 20 years after an extensive restoration.

The house, built in the second century BC, was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.

It was named after its owners, the Vettii brothers, two former slaves.

Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutus got wealthy by selling wine after they were freed.

Adorned in mythological frescos and phallic sculptures, the house reopened on Tuesday after years of restoration work.

Excavation works carried out between late 1894 and early 1896 showed that the ancient Roman townhouse, built on top of the ruins of an earlier house, had survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

"The owners, freedmen and ex-slaves, are the expression of a social mobility that would have been unthinkable two centuries earlier," said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.

He added that the brothers became rich by trading agricultural products from the surrounding area in Pompeii - but added that prostitution was also practiced in their house.

In the house, the Greek god of fertility and abundance, Priapus, is depicted in a fresco weighing his own phallus against a bag of money.

Ornate furnishings inside the house, as well as Greek and Roman sculptures in bronze and marble, offer a glimpse into the lifestyle of the elite.

[ancientcharm]

House of the Vettii, Pompeii

Photos : © Pompeii - Parco Archeologico

The Vettii brothers were slaves, after being freed they became rich selling wine and became the lords of this beautiful Domus

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https://theconversation.com/pompeiis-house-of-the-vettii-reopens-a-reminder-that-roman-sexuality-was-far-more-complex-than-simply-gay-or-straight-197978

https://theconversation.com/pompeiis-house-of-the-vettii-reopens-a-reminder-that-roman-sexuality-was-far-more-complex-than-simply-gay-or-straight-197978

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This has got to be one of my favorite frescoes of Perseus and Andromeda, they way they have their arms over each other, Andromeda sitting on his lap as they fly and lifting her veil in an almost cutesy manner.

From House of the Vettii

[leafyhistory]

In Ancient Rome, snakes were not feared and hated to the same degree that they are today. Every household had a shrine - the lararium where the spirit of the household (the genius) lived with the household's guardians (the lares). The genius was often represented in artwork as a snake, and snakes also often represented the spirits of ancestors and sometimes (more figuratively) their immortality in the afterlife.

Image - Lararium in the House of the Vettii in Pompeii, photo by Patricio Lorente (licence CC BY-SA 2.5)

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The punishment of Ixion for his attempted rape of Juno. At the far left, Vulcan binds Ixion to the wheel upon which he will turn for eternity. In the center, Mercury, holding his caduceus, stands with Nephele ("Cloud") at his feet. At the right, Juno, attended by Iris, looks on. Fresco in the Fourth Style from the eastern wall of the triclinium in the House of the Vettii (VI.15.1), Pompeii.

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Young Hercules strangles the snakes, sent by Juno, before the eyes of Alcmene, Amphitryon, and his father Jupiter in the form of an eagle, perched atop a burning altar

Fresco from the House of the Vettii, c. 62-79 AD, Pompeii, Italy