In the Satyricon Fellini film, based on the novel of Petronius libertine, characters and Ascilito Encolpius, are immortalized in a cool, beautiful young people who are living their passions, which have been driven by his appetites and the end of the glory to immortalize their faces in a work of art.
The Metropolitan Museum New York recently completed installation and restore the Villa Publius Fannius Boscorale Synister of Pompeii and to conclude the study of the walls are painted in fresco. VR also meet with the fragments of this village that are dispersed by other museums.
This village was devastated by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, buried in ashes left by a civilization. In the Satyricon, Petronius tells how Ascilito Encolpius and fight for a child to share as lovers in this adventure come to a village where a wedding has just committed suicide, slitting his wrists and he poisoned her, the town is in its description, as which have been rebuilt in the halls of MET.
The walls of these villas were painted with frescoes by artists brought from different parts of Mediterranean Europe and North Africa. The colors, technique and themes always had a meaning and social implications. The Treaty of Plotonio Beauty Beauty is stated that appeals primarily to the eye, and then the rest of the senses, so the villas were decorated with paintings in each room, people needed to live with something beautiful that entrenched its existence, that would give meaning to their ephemeral stay in this reality.
Synister see on the walls portraits of the homeowners, there are garlands of fruit, bright colors and characters that care for and protect the environment. These are portraits of gods with wings, and placed on either side of a door, greet and say goodbye to visitors. This winged beings that have nothing to do with Christian iconography, are messengers who anticipate what is coming. On another wall, representing the love of science and knowledge, is a scholar, perhaps a philosopher who writes and reasons on parchment, wrapped in his robe, the background is red which represents the purchasing power of the owners. The pigment color was more expensive to obtain, in fact artists had no direct access to the pigments, the head of the house which was guarded and distributed.
artists who painted these villas signed his works with a symbol that would identify, masks or animals. Many of these murals simulate architectures in the house, columns, windows overlooking gardens to non-existent or fabulous spaces. Among the frescoes of the area east and west in the cubicle of the chamber, have paintings of cities, palaces and their streets and gardens with fountains. This extension from the outside gives the house a virtual reality scene, out there is some memory and art is what makes this this daily special.
Recreation in the walls of the architecture, gods, nature of the gardens and fruits that are entangled in garlands, is an exercise in philosophical analysis and rethinking the way in space. The assessment of what must enter into a private and how that environment must have is about what these artists worked. The gods and their scenes are a statement of aesthetic and ethical principles. If a fresh dramatic color recreate Medea when she is about to murder their children, mad with love, hate and jealousy, the walls of that house are the same passions of its inhabitants, the emotions to who worship because they are afraid.
On the walls of a house the symbols are out of the concept of decorating, not a way to fill the space and forget their presence, letting time pass without taking over the images covering the walls, frescoes are seeking to harmonize with the daily existence of beauty, to relate to the most essential intimacy with the art and describe the nature of living in the house.
In one of the walls is bright Venus rising from the sea, surrounded by a blue sky and green water almost at the other end of Bacchus, the god of pleasure, young man leans over a wall while another played the Three Graces . This home is inhabited by beauty, pleasure and sensuality, are the guardian gods of those walls that bring to the people the gift of light that illuminates the walls to bring in more light.
Published in the Journal Antidote
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