Peintures d’Herculanum

Everything was suddenly buried in a silence that lasted nearly two thousand years. The cities of Ercolano and Pompeii, now excavated, offer posterity – after nearly two thousand years – a picture of how people lived in a distant era. Twenty centuries later, we were able to recall every act and custom of those lost inhabitants. And when the long-buried patrician villas awakened from their sleep in the midst of the 18th century, an elegant procession of gods, muses and maenads resurfaced from the ancient frescoed walls, inspiring Neoclassical artists to create this magnificent series of etched and painted panels, brought together here to delight our gazes.