View Pompeii Victims Casts Pics. Plaster casts of the victims of the eruption can still be seen in pompeii most of the written accounts on ancient rome focus on politics, military matters, and the lives of wealthy and powerful people. In 1860, pompeii's director of excavations giuseppe fiorelli developed a way to, in a sense, bring them back to life by creating plaster casts out of the voids left by the decay of organic.
File:Cast sitting victim Pompeii.jpg - Wikimedia Commons from upload.wikimedia.org The victims of civita giuliana: Some 2,000 people stayed in pompeii, holed up in cellars or stone structures, hoping to wait out the eruption.. Pietrified victims of the 79 ad eruption of vesuvius volcano are displayed near the work of mimmo palladino the exibition pompei@madre in the madre.
The antiquarium, near the forum, once held most of the plaster casts.
The last plaster casts of pompeii it is impossible to see those deformed figures, and not feel moved. Roman civilisation, 1st century ad. No trip to pompeii is complete without a viewing of these casts. But at herculaneum, just skeletons remain.
