This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...of Titus and in the numerous subterranean tombs near Rome, are painted in distemper (or in water-colours mixed with egg, gum or glue), --no true fresco picture having yet been discovered, although tome of the plain walls are coloured in fresco. The o best and most important of the mural paintings of Pompeii ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...of Titus and in the numerous subterranean tombs near Rome, are painted in distemper (or in water-colours mixed with egg, gum or glue), --no true fresco picture having yet been discovered, although tome of the plain walls are coloured in fresco. The o best and most important of the mural paintings of Pompeii (supposed to date from the first period of Roman painting) are collected in the museum of Naples, and many of them have been admirably reproduced in the Crystal Palace. The house known as that of the Tragic Poet (described in Bulwer's 'Last Days of Pompeii'), discovered in 1824-6, was especially remarkable for the grace and dignified style of its paintings, most of which represented Homeric subjects: amongst others, the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the Parting of Achilles and Briseis (Eng. 9), the Departure of Chryseis, the Fall of Icarus, etc. The frieze of the atrium 9.--The Parting of Achilles and Briseis. (Supposed to be from a Greek Painting.) From the House of the Tragic Poet at Pompeii. (i. e. court) of the Pompeian Court at the Crystal Palace is copied from a cubtcuium (i. e. a small room opening from the atrium) of this house: it represents a Battle of the Amazons. The Saerifice of Jphigenia, the Deserted Ariadne, Leda presenting Iier first-born child to her husband Tyndareus, and other paintings, adorned the less important rooms of this celebrated residence. The mural decorations of the "House of the Dioscuri" are even more remarkable than those enumerated above: the figures of the twin sons of Leda reining-in their horses, on one of the walls, are especially fine; and the groups of Perseus and Andromeda, and Medea and her Children, found on the piers of the great central peristyle, are scarcely less beautiful. /The...
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