House of the Faun | Pompeii, Italy | Alexander Mosaic | 4K
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- In the north west area of Pompeii, with a garden view of Vesuvius, was a house the size of a palace. This is the largest house discovered inside the walls of Pompeii. Found inside was a chest of coins, jewelry made from gold, as well as furniture of sculpted marble. Its floors were decorated with intricate mosaics, including what has been described as a masterpiece of ancient art. We will search for meaning in these mosaics, go through some of the ancient roman household objects, as well as clues to the identity of its last inhabitants who died carrying valuables, trying to escape the eruption. Join us as we explore The House of the Faun in the city of Pompeii.
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Sometimes i get this weird feeling that this civilization was somehow ahead of ours... not in a technological way.. but in some other aspects we have forgotten...
Imagine the talent of the mosaic artists
I had no idea the famous Alexander and Darius battle scene came from this place! Thanks!
These people lived Before Christ and their houses are more magnificent than ours.
No. They lived in Pompeii after the death of Christ (around 33 AD).
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius was in 79 AD.
they were the wealthy of ancient Roman time
@@rosecorrie2920
They were the Sodom and Gomorrah of their time - wealthy or not.
Amt Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. about 46 years after Christ
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I was in Pompei last month. It is so big and I didn’t see the House of Fawn but am intrigued by this whole area.
I was there last week of October I also didn’t see it. That place is huge and i got tired.
@@anamarieferrer8382you should have checked the best houses before hand brooo there are lot of empty houses but 5/6 villas that are full of paintings not “stolen” or transported to the Naples museum. But if you don’t have a map you can go around 4 hours without seeing a painting hahaha
An excellent tour and with great information
Once upon a time they were much more focused and dedicated to beauty and true art. Not like today where only smart phones, speed and superficiality reign
Wow. I just found your channel an, your narration is one of the easiest I've ever heard to follow and stay engaged with. It's so natural and flowing its actually therapeutic. I can stay absorbed in complex topics like I want to but my mind doesn't have to expend any energy, if that makes sense. Its like my mind can rest and just coast along but I think that's just normal for other people. I camt wait to see what other videos you have because I'm addicted to history. Amazing job, thank you. I just realized now that that's the mind of thing that distinguishes narrators and storytellers. You're definitely a storyteller. I'm playing games while listening and I'm going to listen a few times before watching to see how close my mental images are to reality. I'm imagining I'm on a tour and guessing what it looks like from your awesome descriptions. Little mind vacation
Well put together video of the House of the Faun with it's objects of jewelry, furnishings and mosaics. Thanks for sharing it. Meanwhile I can only imagine what the painting at 9:32 created by Albrecht Altdorfer would look like minutely accurately in a mosaic. And the timestamp doesn't even show the entire painting. Mind boggling. Let's make one! Only a few hundred trillion bits of glass and stone are needed, that's all :)
I have a reproduction of the Faun that I've had for many years. I have always loved it. I call it Pan.
the most appropriate name... well Silenus would have done the job too!!
That was amazing. The artwork was top tier, not ancient graffiti. What a beautiful place. The architecture is sophisticated and sound. They used passive systems perfectly. I could picture this home sitting in Hollywood Hills, at present.
Those mosaics are amazing! ❤
Thank you for an incredible glimpse of these mosaics!
They are the most beautiful left from the Roman Empire.
For decades I've seen depictions of Alexander TG without attribution. So wonderful to see it all. I was fortunate in visiting the Pompeii Traveling Exhibition while in Phoenix (how fitting!). Stunning, Sobering, Beautiful.
Thank you. This is such a special memory for me. I visited the house in 2018. Because of your detailed comments I learned new things.
I went to Pompeii years ago.
This is interesting history of Italy wow thanks
Fantastic animal and fish mosaics.
The bow of Darius has lost its string - perhaps implying his failure in battle.
It would've rotted silly
@@joestitz239 It is a mosaic made of ceramic blocks. It doesn’t rot.
I've read that the House of the Faun was even larger than the palace of the Attalid kings in Pergamon, suggesting the immense wealth and aspirations to prestige that must have distinguished whoever commissioned it and first lived in it. The surviving mosaic decorations are precious exemplars of elite Greco-Roman/Italic taste in the late Republican period.
Pure Beauty
In all likelihood, those decorative columns in the entrance were meant to imitate Hellenistic royal palaces moreso than temples, just like the first-style wall decorations. Really nice video, though :)!
Sublime video, so informative and pleasant to digest, great job! keep up the great work showing us these glimpses into the past.
I was in Pompeii last year. Amazing! Thank you
Watch Domina! It was great!!
Very knowledgeable video and teaches so much. These houses and artifacts are s sophisticated and priceless. Great skills that can't be replicated. Hope these skills continue to be taught in modern times
The owners of this house were the richest in Pompeii.
This is such a good video. Thank you!
What a Beautiful place..it's almost like a dream.i doubt ill ever get to go, but I can always watch these great videos and I can imagine myself in Pompeii with all.the other lucky visitors..
That is the most amazing artwork I have ever seen
Fascinating narration, and well cut video. Thank you!
This is phenomenal to see. I wouldn’t go but am grateful for the video
Why wouldn't you go??
Perfect. In every manner,thankyou
Great job covering this awesome place! What an amazing thing, frozen in time. From destruction came beautiful history. Thx
This was really well done,. Imfrmative with just enough detail to appreciate what this house represented
This is by far greatness.
Excellent video, thanks!
THANKS A LOT FOR THE WELL PRESENTED VIDEO
Your videos are amazing and I enjoy them so much. Such attention to detail I can really tell how passionate your are about the subject ❤
Thanks so much I really enjoyed its fascinating
That … was … totally … awwwesssome!!
Some of those rings are seal rings for enclosing letters and proving the identity of the sender. That’s why the Cassia one is backwards.
Great explanations.
Wonderful description about Fauno's house. Regards!
😮fabuloso pompeii😮
Has the vibe of a museum that put on performances of certain historical events and hosted "theme" parties/weddings.
AWESOME
Loved the video.
Well done
I think the doves were placing items, rather than stealing them. A metaphor for the good people filling their coffers.
Very interesting!
Thank you
Good show
Great work
i am glad that i found youre site. new subscriber..
A shop in Sorrento does life-size replicas of the faun in metal. Great souvenier.
I like the house of Priapus, the Christians wiped that god out almost completely, the small statue found there was the first I've ever seen.
Great job! Gonna share this (Although you did use a picture that looked like it was from the Battle of Vienna)
Great video. There is no need for the music, however, which is a distraction.
Amazing. I miss this place and long to return, yet I've never been there. Weird..
You must be a faun
I know the feeling.
I visited the house of Faun in the late sixties, I can't remember so much because
we bought a guide edited by the the Italian Ministery of ( history or culture) the cover was light blue, it helped so much as the houses were numbered but we didn't spend enough time to see it in detail. I was so interested I returned to the spot to see Herculanum and
a villa outside Pompeï in early days on the seaside but can' t remember the name
Pompeii could had easily been an exclusive resort for wealthy War Generals as well as merchants all over the region.
There is no way any random person would had known such detailed knowledge of Alexander's last battle with King Darius.
When you go to Pompeii, you will be able to see this all laid out and it will make more sense.
@@skontheroad
Thanks, but I have no desire to see another Sodom and Gomorrah.
You shit on Pompeii due to your moral postulations but totally ignore any worse places like the island of Capri and the now destroyed Pleasure Barge of Caligula.
Made of stone practically everything nothing soft!!! Every thing on top was white plaster , and very rich paint , and paintings!!
Anything soft became Ash.
@@casteretpolluxyup ..and they would have had cushions and pillows
He's gesturing back for his wife and daughter. The chariot driver fled the battle leaving not only the troops, but Darius' wife and daughter. Whom were taken as love trophies. His wife died giving birth to Alexander's son.
Where can I get some good prints of the mosaics, anybody know? 🙂
Very rock hard seating every where in Pompeii!!!??
They used cushions
What musem is it ?name ?
Pompei😊i is rich before 😢❤
I have a painting copy yet how do I find out where exactly was the original found in Pompeii?
You mean a poster?
And you are certain there is no info anywhere around it at the edges?
If not, take a picture and upload it to reverse image search and see what you can find!! Good Luck!
Great video, but it's it possible to just have a video without the same music going "buuuuump..." every 15 seconds?
Yes I have a question, why the Anglo Americans allies bombed this vast archaeological site with no military installation at the end of WWII ?
you can google plenty of info on this
On ne prononce pas Pompé, mais Pompéi c'est un i tréma, on doit entendre le i à la fin.
That was probably a Temple of Pan! Pagans!!
Why didnt they made the pool to collect water deeper?
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My wife and my son Ja were in Rome for only a week in 2005 CE, thèy only had time to go to the Coloseum. I suggest that a miniature of the Pompeii ruins be installed in Rome.
I identify as a faun
Why would Pompeii have been bombed during WWII... Interesting
LGBT LOLL 🤦
Occupied by WWII German army. I have a pictorial book about it, but still need to read it.
How sad though. I wonder if any of the richer well off people ever tried to come back at some point to claim
Their things? Surely SOME of them must have be able
To escape via ships and having the wind in their favor so as not to be in the way of the smoke.
They probably did try, but the entire area was completely buried in many feet of ash.
@@harshanid3636 that’s true…..
It was bombed, by who?
The Americans invaded Sicily in WW2 and fought all the way up to Rome.
The two thousand year old city of Pompeii Has more culture and civilization than an entire continent today, Block history month has nothing on Pompeii
Tf
Bombed by americans in ww2…
Azab ALLAH SWT KAUM LGBT LOLL
Babylon
Sodom and Gomorrah
Neither
No! Babylon is Babylon. 🙄🙄🙄
@@harshanid3636No! Sodom and Gomorrah are Sodom and Gomorrah.
*_8:47_**_ People don't understand that Romans unconscioely knew they were the descendants of the Medes and the Persians who escaped the chaos of Alexander. That's why Rome considered it a great vengance when they took over Greece._*
I live on a garbage heap. It's because I deserve it. I made my bed. It's an American woman's gift. I know this to be true because I see 'it' in their eyes and in their smile and in the wind that emerges their mouth. They have a very long journey ahead of them to achieve Rome.
@andrenewcomb3708 What a fascinating comment! Six sentences, but worlds of interpretation in each.
Ce que je n'aime pas dans la civilisation romaine ce sont toutes ces choses en exemple les peintures murales, les statues ou on voit la nudité les sexes qui pendouilles, les seins des femmes à l'air comme si ont assisté à une grande orgie. Je trouve cela moche. La civilisation égyptienne est antérieure à celle de la Grèce et de Rome. De toute les civilisations anciennes c'est celle de l'Égypte que je préfère et qui me fascine le plus.
Better leadership, low taxes, less govt. Interference. Not like todays leaders
I’m sorry….but i am thankful that volcano exploded
What an absurd comment
In someway we all are thankful for Vesuvium eruption, so we could get through 2000 yrs to our days the best witness of the greatest civilization in human history .
Blood thirsty much ? 🤕
What debauchery, only nudity, warriors and fear in people’s face. It’s good that it’s in the past.
LGBT 🤮🤮
Yeah nudity is a big problem please make sure you prevent yourself and your family from studying classical and renaissance art, so you have more time for those highly educational evangelical cult and guns reunions
@@paperinik69
Pompeii was nothing more than Sodom and Gomorrah of its time.
Your explanation, by comparing it to classical art is laughable and insulting.
The most ridiculous comment I've ever seen about Pompei and the Roman classic art . Religious fanatism has nothing to do with culture & human spirit, so any typical hypocrite stubborn puritan attitude . Ignorance
@@paperinik69Whoooaaa man, no need to trash talk gun-owners for that ignorant comment by OP. That’s not cool. Not all gun-owners are uncultured swine who complain about nudity. >:| I love guns AND ancient Rome. I know others who are the same in that way. Rude.
The statue which is shown in the video is naked , its against CZcams rules ,they should ban / restrict the video ..!!
Art is shown in the ORIGINAL!
Get over your bad self, @raghuvardhan9293
Yeah you're so right, as admin of the site and expert censor of artistic masterpieces you've got to do that...! 😂😂😂😂
Patrimonio mondiale!!!
Greek spirit and art where it's born to is everywhere
Greek spirit and art ?! 😂 Maybe in your dreams, ancient greeks had spirit only in building their primitive religious temples, they never had love any love for art like Romans had ! The only art the greeks were able at was to make short time deperible things. We're talking of the Romans, the best manufacturers of ancient times.
Many of the statues and mosaics found in Pompeii and other cities of N. Italy come from Macedonia (Lucius Aemlius Paulus, battle of Pydna of 168 BC, in which the Roman emperor led and which sealed C ' Macedonian War and the final submission of Macedonia to Rome. Thousands of works of art, statues, mosaics, golden wreaths, columns, many times entire buildings were transferred to Rome. The gold and wealth of Macedonia was so great that indeed it was the beginning of Gloria Romae. The mosaic of Alexander the Great depicting the battle of Issus was brought intact from Macedonia. Italian archaeologists say they are Roman copies, but they too often say .. nonsense.
Bizarre and childish comment full of bs and totally false statement !! 😂😂😂 None of the statues of Pompei ( which is located in Southern Italy and not Northern, start on learning your elementary geography) came from macedonia, the nearly greek region that never had any significance in art or in culture, never !! The statues were all made by Roman artists and the mosaics as well. The Romans were the greatest in mosaic art, no ancient people were ever able in doing modaics out Romans, so your statement is pure garbage, a childish lie !! Macedonia had only two things, warriors and sheeps, and nothing else, their people were too rude and ignorant to dream on being only a 10% of Roman greatness ! Grow up, you need it .
All those made by the Greeks after Romans conquer Greece they left Greece and went to Italy.
Unlike Romans the greeks were incapable to do something durable in time, only a very few statues have got to us , not to talk of their primitive crappy architecture and engineering. The Romans were just from another galaxy in comparison, sorry for your childish frustration -:) !!