The frescoes at the Archaeological Museum of Naples in Italy

The frescoes from Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius region account for almost half of the works of art on display at the Archaeological Museum in Naples.

Fresco of the poetess Sappho, Pompeii, Insula Occidentalis, Archaeological Museum of Naples

The Poetess Sappho They are a moving and precious record that has come down to us two thousand years after they were created in the wake of the tragedy of the eruption of Vesuvius, in the year 79 AD.

They would probably have been lost if Pompeii and Herculaneum had not been buried under ash.

These frescoes, which depict portraits, scenes of daily life, landscapes and even erotic scenes, are all of admirable artistic quality.

These frescoes allow the visitor to step into the private lives of the homes they once adorned by presenting the lives of the people who lived there, and thus offer authentic images of the splendid civilisation of Roman antiquity that are more vividly conveyed than in history books.

Satyr and Maenad

Fresco Scene at the Royal Court of Macedonia, Boscoreale, Villa of Fannius Synistor, Archaeological Museum of Naples

A scene at the royal court of Macedonia

Mercury, shop sign

Actor and zither player

A fountain in a garden with a bird