Esther's photos with the keyword: plaster

Plaster sculpture of The Thinker by Rodin at the Peabody Essex Museum Not the Sunday Challenge: Slogan Think Different It's the Real Thing AIMG 6360B

Houses in Venice, Italy are noted for their elegant facades facing the water. In this city without roads, guests usually entered by boat. The Byzantine style was popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. Houses of this period are noted for their ground floor arcades and arched open galleries that run the length of the "ground" floor. AIMG_4901

Pompeii, Italy with Mt. Vesuvius in the background. Pompeii was founded sometime between the 8th–6th centuries BC. After numerous conquests, it eventually became a Roman town. It was destroyed in, 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. Most people are believed to have died by the searing heat (250 degrees C). Afterwards, the town was covered in layers of ash, which preserved the ruins. The eruption was documented by Pliny the Younger who watched it from across the Bay of Naples. The town was eventually forgotten about and it was not until 1599 that it was rediscovered during an project to divert the Sarno River. It was then forgotten about until 1748. Major excavations continued for years thereafter. In the mid 19th Century, Giuseppe Fiorelli led the architctural recovery. He determined that spaces in the ash layer containing human remains had been left by the decomposed bodies. He injected plaster into the spaces to recreate the forms of Vesuvius's victims. AIMG_3256