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Title: Guide to Italy and Sicily
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macmillan & Co
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Publisher: London, MacMillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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les, foundempty. In the first room on theleft (2) are frescoes of the Desertionof Ariadne, who kisses her hand toTheseus, and of Hero and Leander,with three dolphins. In the secondroom (3), Cyparissus. with the petstag which he had wounded, andthe omphalos of Apollo. Anotherpainting represents a fight betweenPan and Cupid. The picture onthe third wall of this room wasdestroyed when Vettius broke into GUIDE TO ITALY Pompeii—House of the Vettii 183 his house to recover his treasures,after the eruption. Room (4) openingout of the garden court has a frescoof the Infant Hercules stranglingsnakes, the Death of Pentheus,killed by his mother and sisters forspying at their revels, and thePunishment of Dirce (p. 144). In water). From this we pass into theTriclinium (5), which is painted inred panels divided by black pilasters,and on the panel of each wall amythological picture — Iphigeneiain Tauris, Slaughter of the Python,and Sacrilege of Agamemnon. Thesingularly graceful frieze represents
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The House of the Vettii. another room is a beautiful figureof a Faun with pipes and a crook. The garden court is elegantlydecorated with bronze figures offtth geese, colonnettes of (p ninrhla fnnn + am hoy rt white marble, fountainornaments, statuettes, and vasche(rectangular shallow tanks for Cupids at work and play. These arethe finest paintings yet discoveredat Pompeii, and deserve attentivestudy. There are also five verypretty groups of winged girlsgathering flowers. The Cupid scenes on the friezewere originally 15, of which only 184 Pordenone GUIDE TO ITALY 11 remain. They represent 1 (onthe rt.), Boys playing with a duck. 2 Throwing stones at a target. 3 Making garlands. 4 Making oil.5 Chariot-racing. 6 Selling orna-ments. 7 Cloth-scrubbing (fullerswork). 8 Open-air festivals (in-distinct). 9 Vintage. 10 Triumphof Bacchus. 11 Tasting wine. Opposite the entrance is a blankspace in the upper wall, whichlooks as if it had contained a valu-able picture, afterwards removed. Issuing f

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