The (really) old and new meet in Naples
Pompeii at Madre: Archaeological Material presents artworks that spent nearly 2,000 years buried under ash
Naples, Italy
POMPEII'S interior designers made the most of the earthquake. After it hit in AD 62, they renovated wrecked villas with vibrantly coloured narrative frescoes that were, it turns out, incredibly long-lived. The eruption of Vesuvius - the volcano that many of them thought was a mountain - only 17 years later in AD 79, both sealed the city's choked inhabitants in a pumice-and-ash time capsule and preserved the wall paintings that scholars have come to identify as examples of the fourth Pompeian style.
Now, nearly 2,000 years later, some of that art is prominently displayed for the first time at Pompeii at Madre: Archaeological Material, a compelling new exhibition at the Madre contemporary art museum in Naples, just 15 miles (24 km) north of the site.
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