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Identifier: southbyeastnotes00rodwrich (find matches)
Title: South by east : notes of travel in southern Europe
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Rodwell, G. F. (George Farrer), b. 1843
Subjects: Europe, Southern -- Description and travel 1871-1918
Publisher: London : M. Ward & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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PEKSEPHONE ENTHRONED. PAINTING FKOM POMPEII. NAPLES. vases are also very fine. The wall paintings from Pompeii andHerculaneum are the only specimens of ancient painting on a largescale which exist; the small paintings on vases, generally of one 144 Naples. colour, are the only other examples in the world. They prove to usthat the art of painting was well understood by the ancients. Someof the pastoral pieces possess a grace and delicacy which we couldscarcely have looked for at the period. The interiors of all theprincipal houses in Pompeii were painted, often with great skill andtaste. MahafFy (Rambles and Studies in Greece, 1876) justlysays of the Pompeii wall-paintings :— Though they are onlythe wall decorations of a second-rate mongrel Greek town,there are both grace and power in many of the figures. Thecolouring is bright and life-like, and the faces full of expression.
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FARNESE BULL. NAPLES. The Museum. 145 A few good mosaics were also found in the city, and arepreserved in the Museum. In the Gallery of Inscriptions thereexist two of the finest pieces of sculpture in the world; theFarnese Hercules from the Baths of Caracalla in Kome, and theFarnese Bull. This latter is an incomparable work, by the

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  • booksubject:Europe__Southern____Description_and_travel_1871_1918
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