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Title: Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell & Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Doric Capita), cut in lufa ami covered with coloured stucco. The stucco havingpartially fallen, the carving beneath it is shown. 273
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Biga ; hum the arabesques. CHAPTER II. P0MPEIAN ART. The most remarkable objects with which the interiors ofPompeii reward the labour of excavation are paintings andmosaics. Frequent mention of these branches of art will bemade in the course of this work, and it seems expedienttherefore to collect in a prefatory chapter such informationrespecting them as has been gathered by the diligence oflearned men either from personal observation, or from thescattered notices of ancient writers. The subject of workingin mosaic will not occupy us long. The art is still exercisedwith success at least equal to that of the Roman workmen,as is proved by the magnificent copies of some of the bestpictures of Italian masters recently executed in the Vatican.The most remarkable circumstance connected with the practiceof it in ancient times is the profusion with which mosaicswere produced, insomuch that the dwellings of a second-ratetown abound in specimens rich enough to be transferred tothe palaces of Na

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