Vintage at Pompeii

Under the headline "Torna la vite, torna la vita" the 2009 vintage started in Pompeii on Tuesday.
A huge event for media, also TV stations from Japan and America came to the official start of the vintage in the "House of the Ship Europa". The picture above is from the "Foro Boario", which - as we know thanks to Wilhelmina Jashemski - was already in ancient times used as a vineyard.

The vineyards (grape-vine: Piedirosso) within the excavations are cultivated by "Mastroberardino". About 1600 bottles of "Villa dei Misteri" wine are produced each year.
At the event at Pompeii the exhibition "Vinum Nostrum" was announced. "Vinum Nostrum" will open in Florence in June 2010; one section will deal exclusively with the vineyards of Pompeii.

Frescoes in Florence

I only recently discovered that the exhibition "Galileo. Images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope" in Florence has one room with frescoes from "Pompeii".

The show is really worth to see: The frescoes of Pompeii are meant to illustrate the "strong influence" of De Astronomia by Hyginus in the first century AD and show "personifications of the [most popular stellar] constellations".

"Galileo" opened in March and is still on display at Palazzo Strozzi until the end of August (9-20; Thursday until 23 PM). All texts as well as the catalogue come in Italian and English.

A virtual visit is possible through the website of the "Istituto di storia della scienza": http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/index_flash.html

Section III has the frescoes from Pompeii:
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/section/HyginusDeAstronomia.html