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Identifier: archaeologicaljo54brit (find matches)
Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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alm. The colours of this portrait arenatural, but the expression is that of a Medea ; her gazeis haughty and excited : it was the type of the wife ofJason in which this imperious woman desired to be per-petuated to her family and future generations. Memories of Spanish and Italian lands steal oer usas we look at the portrait from the tahlinum of VI, 5, 3 ;No. 2. It is a medallion 31c across, and executed in a 22 FAMILY PORTKAITS AT POMPEI. chiaroscuro of maroon colouring. The head and shouldersof a woman, nude, her breasts just visible, and her rightarm raised in a graceful curve, the hand holding someobject above her head ; the arm seems to partly enfoldthe head of a man behind her right shoulder. And as ifin contrast to her fair face and breasts, he is painted verydark, like an Italian whose ancestors, as well as himself,have been much exposed to the suns rays ; his eyes speakardently; his lips are opened as their cheeks touch. Thepicture is full of the passionate life of the south.
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«^ POETEAIT FROM POMPEI. Eegio VIII. Insula V. House 39. No. I. In the fine portraits from an oecus in the small house,Yin, 5, 39, we probably see before us the portraits oftwo sisters. The medallions, painted on 3ellow panels inthe plain decoration of the walls, are 23 to 24c in dia-meter and enclosed by a black wreath of box leaves, oneof which is greenish. The background is either yellowish,or toned. No. 1, the eldest sister, shows a lady with apleasing and distinguished expression; one would almost FAMILY PORTRAITS AT POMPEI. 23 say that she liad been a grande dame in Pompei. She isrepresented decoUetee, her shoulders clothed in a lightgreenish robe, her hair in little curls over her foreheadand hidincf her ears in their thick clusters and descendini^down the back of her neck, while round her head is afillet of gold ; in the riofht ear is visible a gold ringending in a little gold ball. The mouth in this portraitseems to have been painted out of place, or this effectmay be produc

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