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[edit]DescriptionHerculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages (14596552639).jpg |
English: Drawing of a fresco depicting Phrixus on the back of the golden ram by Henri Roux Ainé, 1870. Translated related text: 'This fresco decorated the interior portico of the edifice at Pompeii which is commonly called the Pantheon [now called the Macellum], and in which enlightened critics have seen a temple of Serapis.
'Phrixus and Hellé (1), fleeing the fury of Ino, placed themselves on the back of a ram with the golden fleece, and abandoned themselves with it to the waves of the Black Sea, in order to take refuge with Eetes, king of Colchis. During the trip, Helle perished in the sea which was given the name of Hellespont; Phrixus, having arrived safe and sound at Colchis, immolated to the god Mars the ram whose precious fleece was to be the object of the enterprise of the Argonauts. We can easily see the fact enveloped under the veil of this allegory: the art of exploiting and purifying gold, brought by the Greeks or Phrygians to a people who possessed virgin mines, mines which later aroused the covetousness of the Hellenes. , and which even had something to do with the motives of the Trojan War. For the navigation of the Black Sea is perhaps what has been designated by the name of Helen (to take the vessels). Be that as it may, the Pompeians, themselves enriched by maritime trade, took pleasure in repeating the adventure of Phrixus in the decoration of their residences. In the painting which occupies us, the brother of Hellé is represented in an attitude full of grace and lightness: the wind, which inflates the yellow drapery of his coat, seems to lift him itself; and one is not surprised that his mount could carry him for such a long journey. Near him, two dolphins leap on the waves and seem to rejoice at his arrival at the end of the journey. But the shore on which the marvelous ram has already set foot is not rendered with the same talent as the figures, and its position offers singular faults of perspective: one could believe that all this landscape was added after the fact, and that the original intention of the artist was to represent man and animal floating on the surface of the waters. A so-called connoisseur, claiming to be a protector of the arts, strong in his money and his municipal authority, will have wanted us to see Colchis; and this Maecenas will have been obeyed.
In the vignette, here is a lion pursuing two horses; then two other recumbent lions, a tree and two seats. We know that the emperors often gave chases of different animals in the circus. But the two seats certainly indicate a private place, such as a pleasure garden, where there are tame lions, such as those which the Indians employed in hunting (2), which the Persians had in their pleasure-houses. (3) , and whom Heliogabalus even admitted to his feasts." Identifier: herculanumetpomp18703barr (find matches) |
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- Ancient Roman frescos in the Macellum (Pompeii)
- Phrixos in ancient Roman paintings
- Museo Archeologico (Naples) in art - Frescos
- Ancient Roman frescos from Pompeii in the Museo Archeologico (Naples)