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our aim Our project is not just about adopting a house, but to make it shareable to everyone who wants to join the cause. For this reason we have decided to made an online magazine with contents inspired by Oplontis. Oplontis has to become the “domus� in which people from all around the world have the chance to be part of a bigger community, in which every giver plays an important role in supporting. Every donation is important for us, even the smallest one, cause every stone is important to rebuild Oplontis.
made in Oplontis for the world Oplontis Stone by Stone is a Italy based crowdfunding project, whose aim is to celebrate the beauty of Oplontis. This archeological site near Torre Annunziata (NA) is a world heritage site protected by UNESCO, but its real potential has not been shown to the public yet. We want to make Oplontis visible to the world, as part of our common heritage.
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the wine anfora
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Caterina Comini
Roberto Genuini e Antonio Spassi
Fourth Style responses to ‘period rooms’ of the IInd and IIIrd Styles at Villa Poppaea at Oplontis 4
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Regina Gee
from oplontis to Sicily the history of the cassata Alessandra Possi
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Fourth Style responses to ‘period rooms’ of the IInd and IIIrd Styles at Villa Poppaea at Oplontis
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Under the spotlight
Roberto Genuini e Antonio Spassi
the wine anfora december 12 2019
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This month we have restored a beautiful Anfora founded in Villa B in Oplontis during the first digs. This Anfora took us to explore more in our storehouse about the universe of wine and we have found that it wasn’t only one Anfora, but four different shapes. They we’re used to serve wine and water during the splendid and unique roman banquets. The guests in this way, could drink and taste the wine made in Oplontis.
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http://www.paesaggicolorati.it/food/da-oplontis-alla-sicilia-eccola-storia-della-cassata/
Alessandra Possi
from oplontis to Sicily the history of the cassata july 3, 2019
Food is history and if its from the past it’s more appealing. Today I want to speak about a typical dessert of Sicily but that finds an ancient ancestor even on the parietal representations of an aristocratic villa of the city of Oplontis, the actual Torre Annunziata. I’m speaking about the Cassata of Oplontis or Oplontina, painted in the Villa of Poppea Sabina. We know the recipe unfortunately from an anonymous source. Every family has an archimagirus, a chef who was working at the more exclusive dinners. The list of the ingredients and the recipes for the dinner were given to him at the beginning of the dinner and was all about his ability to make something delicious and magnificent as possible for a dinner worthy of memory. The dinner was divided in three different moments: the gustatio, the starter, the dinner and the second mensa with the best desserts. We can immagine that the Cassata was the local excellence so that was the subjects of the frescos in Villa Poppea.
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Latin receip Metti tres unce praecoquis, tres unce pruni, et tres unce uve vietum. Fructi siccus sminuti cum media luna cultellus aut solitus cultellus, si optas pro plus magnum fragmentis. Coxi in melis tres unce nuxis et duus unce pineolusi, quoad duru factu est. Bada nun scottaribus digitam, quod meli tantus caldus est. Dulcis duru rectum refrigera inde frangi illu in exiguis fragmentum. Miscea multus tres libras caseo ovini quod mollis facta est. Indi addici media libra meli et pianus pianus miscea cum casu. Dulcis duru fragmentatus addici et rectum miscea omnis. Farina amygdalis miscea cum meli et coccinigliam pulvis. Coperire bordus pentolae cum cunfectus amygdale et in centrum poni compositus casu et poni in locus frigidus ad rectus tempus. Potui impendere armarium cum gelus, si dominus tuus habet illu. Super patellam cassatae poni, indi velu casus rectum misceatum super dulcis poni. Decoras cum noxis, dactylis, ficus vietum.
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English receip Ingredients apricots sultanas plums dates walnuts
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pine nuts honey ricotta cheese almond flour oil
Process Cut apricots, sultanas, plums, dates into small pieces. Cook the walnuts and pine nuts in honey until a hard mixture is obtained. Cool the mixture and then chop it into small pieces. Sift the sheep’s ricotta cheese and leave some for the top decoration. Mix honey and ricotta cheese until you reach the desired sweetness and light consistency. Add the diced fruit and the dried fruit to the honey mixture. Apart from that, mix a little almond flour with honey and some red food coloring to obtain a soft dough. Cover the bottom of a baking tray well greased with oil, roll out the red marzipan and fill the bottom of the baking dish with the cheese mixture. Let rest in the fridge. Once cooled, cover the top with the ricotta that you have kept aside and decorate with the fruit.
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https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/9318
Regina Gee
Fourth Style responses to period rooms of the IInd and IIIrd Styles at Villa Poppaea at Oplontis From the book Antike Malerei zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil september 13, 2010
16 This essay presents selected examples of the Fourth Style at Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Oplontis as viewed through a particular analytical lens (for a plan of Villa A, see Abb. 1 in J. R. Clarke’s article in this volume). The Fourth Style visually dominates at Villa A in total area, but with the exception of the spectacularly vivid garden rooms of the east wing, appreciated for their glowing colour and sophisticated alignment, it is the least-well examined among the three styles present.
Not without reason the show-stopping Second Style rooms, particularly the atrium and triclinia, have garnered the lion’s share of attention. In 1987, J. Clarke published the first detailed study of all the Third Style ensembles. The complete record of surviving wall paintings reveals an art historical narrative more complex than a sequenced unfolding of Second, Third, and Fourth Styles. This history is shaped by but not utterly dependent on the attendant story told by earthquakes and economics, and the style narrative undermines attempts to create a straightforward progression through discrete categories, offering up instead a series of permutations and combinations. Within the larger and longer dialog in contemporary scholarship on diachronic studies versus the synchronic consideration of wall paintings as meaningful markers of social use, this examination is intended to mediate between the two. I use both methods of inquiry to consider Fourth Style paintings inserted within earlier decorative programs at the villa. The corpus of Campanian wall painting gives examples of painting preservation in the comprehensive decorative system of a house along a calibrated scale of removal, true restoration, or a combination of old and new sections. This examination considers all three responses in the material record of the villa with an emphasis on the choice by the artists to reveal or conceal the stylistic intervention within the earlier work. The Fourth Style’s complexity in terms of repertoire and the ability to respond to previous styles is made explicit in a new way in this case study.
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from the editorial staff
under the spotlight
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we are not alone in this, a lot of universities help us to research and apply the best technologies to restore in the best way or artifacts. This is just a taste of what we do everyday with the universities in their laboratories. Tens of people are working everyday to restore and classify the artifacts that are in our storage and make them beautiful again. This is why we create “under the spotlight� the section of this magazine about the unknown pieces of the collection.
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