Chapps
@chapps
I create digital polychrome reconstructions of ancient Roman sculpture. 🎨 🏳️🌈 Bsky: http://chapps.bsky.social Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/chappspix
The most popular restoration I've done is the one showing an ordinary man's business in Ancient Rome.
My most difficult creative challenge, I present the #polychrome version of this ca. 50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop. *Many* thanks to @DrNWillburger for all her time and help on research and for the original image! #Uffizi #polychromy 1/
#ReliefWednesday takes us back to an exhibition about the #Roman idea of #time, held in the usually-closed Aula IV of the #BathsofDiocletian in #Rome. These dancers moving around a cylindrical #marble monument may imply the circular passage of the seasons, in a #Bacchic context.
For #MaryMagdalene's feast day, one of the 5 best photos I've ever taken. From the #trumeau in #Autun's Saint Lazare. 19th c. & fabulous. I defy you to show me more sensuous drapery! #blackandwhitephotography @BooksTeaFilms @smyth_jeannette @Blott_Blackpool @StroudStory, esp.!
#EpigraphyTuesday reminds us of the great patron of #Augustan #Herculaneum, M. #NoniusBalbus, from the slab on the base of a #statue of Nonius made by his grateful fellow citizens. The Nonii Balbi were everywhere in the ancient coastal town, both descendents and freedmen.
"Zephyr, in the sky at night, I wonder..." This ancient #Dionysiac hymn was certainly sung during #Etruscan #Bacchanals like the one partially represented on this #terracotta slab now repatriated to #Rome and probably destined for the National #EtruscanMuseum at #Cerveteri.
Comparing the recently recovered erotic mosaic from #Pompeii to a fresco fragment from the ‘venereum’ of a private home in the same city. The main resemblance is the woman - her white skin, her deep red strophium (bandeau-style bra), and her dark hair and hairstyle. 📸 right, me
In response to an amulet of the #Egyptian goddess Taweret on her scooter recently posted by @chapps, we give you Thoth the ibis-headed god of literacy in his novelty slippers c.664-30 BC...... 😍 (image: Eton College Collections)
Erotic ancient Roman mosaic looted by Nazi officer returned to Pompeii nbcnews.com/world/italy/po…
My review of the Stern collection of Cycladicising objects has appeared in BMCR #cycladic bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07.0…
The melancholy young man of Ierapetra I sec. b.c. Hellenistic period, bronze. In 1958 it accidentally re-emerged from the sands of Vilgia beach, in Ierapetra. Made with the lost wax technique, it depicts a teenager between the ages of 13 and 15.