SECOND PART OF THE POST CONTAINS SOME ROMAN EROTIC ART WORKS. POSSIBLY Not Safe For Work.
We drove into Naples, parked in the port, and walked a couple kilometers to the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Naples is over 2,800 years old and constantly lives in the shadow and threat of the volcano. Naples itself is a very very very dirty and dingy city. Graffiti covers EVERYTHING, even monuments and government buildings. Its definitely not a very touristy place, but can be interesting to explore and the museum is a definite must. The museum contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum. It also has the famous Secret Cabinet, a collection of Roman erotic art. When these works were cataloged in the 18th century, they were deemed obscene and pornographic, and locked away. The secret room was only re-opened in 2005.
SECOND PART OF THE POST CONTAINS SOME ROMAN EROTIC ART WORKS. POSSIBLY NSFW.
View of Vesuvius and Naples city across the bay of Naples from the Hills of Sorrento.
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A few things:
-Awesome pictures with wonderful colors
-Great museum, I think I recognize some frescos from my textbooks
-Should have warned not to open at work
Where r you off too next?
Ndaaa, mujik s kozoi – prosto obaldet’. Mne chem to gorod Barcelonu napominaet, ya bila tam v to je vremia chto i vi v Neapole – kucha graffiti, griazno, poetomy ne ochen’ ponravilos’.
- Thanks
- those are just a small % of the frescoes there…really amazing, all the diff periods of roman art…high style, emperial style…etc…
- you need to read the intro paragraphs :) big bold text warned of ROMAN EROTIC ART :)
- back to paris
Yeah we didn’t like Barcelona either when we went…..same reasons plus explosions at night outside our window lol
I didn’t think you would post it…silly me
it posts automatically once you are an approved person…