Boscoreale

Infobox CityIT
img_coa = boscoreale-Stemma.png official_name = Comune di Boscoreale
region= Campania
province = Naples (NA)
elevation_m =65
area_total_km2 =11.28
population_as_of = december 31, 2004
population_total = 27476
population_density_km2 =2444.70
timezone = CET, UTC+1
coordinates = coord|40|46|N|14|29|E|
frazioni =Marchesa, Pellegrini, Cangiani, Marra
telephone = 081
postalcode = 80041
gentilic = Boschesi
name=Boscoreale
mapx=40.76
mapy=14.484
saint =
day = july 16
mayor =
website =
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Boscoreale is a "comune "and town in the province of Naples, Campania, located in the Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio under the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, known for the fruit and vineyards of Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio.

The neighborhood Monte Bursaccio, which was overcome by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE that obliterated and preserved its better-known neighbors, Pompeii and Herculaneum, is famous for the frescoes of its aristocratic villas, excavated before World War I. A hoard of Roman silver and coins that had been hurriedly stashed in a cistern for protection at the time of the eruption was also recovered in Boscoreale in 1895, and divided among museums, including the Louvre.

Boscoreale, about a kilometer north of Pompeii of which it was an expansive, more rural outlying suburb, was notable in antiquity for having numerous aristocratic country villas and was preserved as a hunting park - hence its name, meaning "Royal Grove" - by the kings of Naples.

The villa of P. Fannius Synistor (see Villa Boscoreale) was built and decorated shortly after mid-first century BC. The quality of its frescoes seems to have preserved them from changes in fashion, before the villa was entombed in the eruption.

The neighboring Boscotrecase yielded some elite works of art to excavators at the same time, in particular at the Villa of Agrippa Postumus, also known as the Imperial Villa or the Villa of Augusta.

References

*cite book|first=François |last=Baratte|year=1986|title=Le Trésor d'orfèvrerie romaine de Boscoreale|location=Paris|publisher=Musée de Louvre|id=ISBN 2-7118-2048-3

External links

* [http://www.comuni-italiani.it/063/008/ Comune di Boscoreale official site]
* [http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/0DFBC367731B961BC1256AC3005AAAE3?OpenDocument Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompeii: the main rustic villas]
* [http://www.auav46.dsl.pipex.com/p129.htm Herculaneum/Pompeii/Stabiae Website]
* [http://ad79.wetpaint.com/page/Boscoreale AD79 Year of Destruction Website]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cubi/hd_cubi.htm Frescos from the house of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]
* [http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/img_B1221a.html Fresco section from the villa of Fannius Sinistor, Boscoreale (Archaeological Museum Naples]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/ViewOne.asp?item=03.14.13a-g&dep=13 Cubiculum from the house of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]
* [http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp;jsessionid=DLvp9DS4Spp6GG82TjJtLyrxF6hLQ0Gh2cQ9tLBwFJLGRG8WNDCJ!73989502?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225345&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225345&CURRENT_LLV_DEP%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474395181112&CURRENT_LLV_DIV%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302024493&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500819&bmUID=1124806495041&bmLocale=en Boscoreale treasure (Musée du Louvre)]