From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3687 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, March 2 2020 Volume 14 : Number 3687 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The best pictures and videos of your life - With the easy-to-use Blade 720 drone! ["I Love Blade720" Subject: The best pictures and videos of your life - With the easy-to-use Blade 720 drone! The best pictures and videos of your life - With the easy-to-use Blade 720 drone! http://dronehigh.buzz/MJyBKrgLmGEvomr4OxmjJyCbwCm3Ya_MzuQlVa-64x_YUcgV http://dronehigh.buzz/mPPEqDnOrsxkfa0WVh3RVcX-f0PXsBUQ0R-P52xrDWOi7p1N The Domus Aurea was probably never completed. It was a severe embarrassment to Nero's successors. It was stripped of its marble, jewels and ivory within a decade. Soon after Nerobs death, the palace and grounds, encompassing 2.6 kmB2 (c. 1 miB2), were filled with earth and built over: the Baths of Titus were already being built on part of the site in 79 AD. On the site of the lake, in the middle of the palace grounds, Vespasian built the Flavian Amphitheatre, which could be reflooded at will, with the Colossus Neronis beside it. The Baths of Trajan, and the Temple of Venus and Rome were also built on the site. Within 40 years, the palace was completely obliterated. Paradoxically, this ensured the wall paintings' survival by protecting them from moisture. Rediscovery When a young Roman inadvertently fell through a cleft in the Esquiline hillside at the end of the 15th century, he found himself in a strange cave or grotto filled with painted figures. Soon the young artists of Rome were having themselves let down on boards knotted to ropes to see for themselves. The Fourth Style frescoes that were uncovered then have faded to pale gray stains on the plaster now, but the effect of these freshly rediscovered Grotesque decorations was electrifying in the early Renaissance, which was just arriving in Rome. When Raphael and Michelangelo crawled underground and were let down shafts to study them, the paintings were a revelation of the true world of antiquity. Beside the graffiti signatures of later tourists, like Casanova and the Marquis de Sade scratched into a fresco inches apart (British Archaeology June 1999), are the autographs of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Martin van Heemskerck, and Filippino Lippi. It was even claimed that various classical artworks found at this timebsuch as the LaocoC6n and his Sons and Venus Kallipygosbwere found within or near the Domus's remains, though this is now accepted as unlik ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3687 **********************************************