(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 21 - "Due to the adverse weather conditions, expected starting this evening also in Campania, the reopening of the Casa dei Vettii in Pompeii has been postponed to a date to be determined".
This was announced by the Ministry of Culture, specifying that a new date for the inauguration will be communicated in the coming days, at which Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano will intervene.
Closed to the public for years due to the complex restorations it needed, the Casa dei Vettii is among the richest and best-known houses in the Campania town buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD Located in the richest part, right in front of another well-known house, that of the Amorini dorati, the Casa dei Vettii belonged to the brothers Aulo Vettio Restituto and Aulo Vettio Conviva, freedmen who became rich with the wine trade, wealthy to the point of entering Pompeian society with all the honors, so much so that one of them was part of the college of the Augustali .
Having bought the house, which had existed since the 2nd century BC, the two had it restored and enriched with a garden where statues, fountains and water games abounded.
In all the rooms there were refined paintings that covered the walls up to the ceiling, executed with the eclecticism and magnificence of the so-called "fourth style", the one that was fashionable in the first half of the 1st century AD.
In the various rooms around the first atrium or overlooking the peristyle, mythological and even erotic scenes abound, accompanied by a myriad of details, among all a festoon with cupids engaged in preparing a banquet.
Very popular is the Priapus with the enormous phallus, which welcomed visitors at the entrance to the house.
Already affected by works in 1995, when the problem created by the concrete roofs of the 1950s was evident, the house was partially reopened in 2016, after 12 years of closure and then closed again after 3 years for further restorations.
which affected the coverings but also the paintings, with the removal of the patina created by previous restorations.
During the visit, the minister will be accompanied by the director of the Park Gabriel Zuchtriegel and by the general director of the MiC museums Massimo Osanna.
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