The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance ...
Recent excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of a rare blue pigment that hint at the palace’s former glory. When Nero’s ...
Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment.
“Among his many contributions, he investigated why certain historical figures — notably the emperors Nero and Tiberius — live on in the ... Hugo Meyer, specialist in Hellenistic and Roman art and ...
The find of Egyptian blue ingot at the Emperor Nero’s palace connects two pivotal periods in art history: the grandeur of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance revival of its techniques. It also ...
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For instance, De materia medica—On Medical Material—the classic treatise of Dioscorides, written at the time of the emperor Nero in the first ... s golden age. THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval ...
A great fire ravaged Rome in A.D. 64 and, according to an apocryphal story, Nero played a fiddle during it. In A.D. 68, the Praetorian guard, the forces in charge of protecting the emperor ...