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Dancing Figure, Pompeii

Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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the decline of painting. * One of the latest discoveries near Rome is that of the Villa Livia, alluded toby Pliny as Villa Csesarurn. It is about eight miles from the city. In it has beendiscovered an apartment most exquisitely ornamented. The lower portions of thewalls, to the height of about five feet from the floor, represent a trellis work, fromwhich spring the most exquisitely painted trees, shrubs, plants. These are loadedwith fruit and flowers, among which a variety of birds and insects are feeding,fluttering, or reposing. As these paintings are in a villa built for Livia by Au-gustus, the Roman antiquaries have concluded that they are of that period; andconsequently may be with good reason attributed to the hand of Ludius. PAINTING. 223 were the pupils of the Greeks; what we said of the paintings of theGreeks can be equally applied to those of the Romans. The remains of paintings found at Pompeii, Herculaneum, andin the baths of Titus at Eome, are the only paintings which can
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DANCING FIGURE, POMPEII. give us any idea of the colouring and painting of the ancients,which, though they exhibit many beauties, particularly in compo-sition, are evidently the works of inferior artists in a period ofdecline. At Pompeii there is scarcely a house the walls of whichare not decorated with fresco paintings. The smallest apartmentswere lined with stucco, painted in the most brilliant and endlessvariety of colours, in compartments, simply tinted with a light 224 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. ground, surrounded by an ornamental margin, and sometimesembellished with a single figure or subject in the centre, or atequal distances. These paintings are very frequently historical ormythological, but embrace every variety of subject, some of themost exquisite beauty. Landscape painting was never a favourite

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