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Title: The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city) Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79
Publisher: London : Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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dling, is one of the most import-ant monuments of the pictorial art discovered at Pompeii. Two of thegroups, that of Hercules, and that of Omphale, are found repeated in sepa-rate pictmes; but this is the only instance yet discovered in which the threegroups are combmed together, and form one picture: nor is that of Bacchusand his companions to be fotmd elsewhere. The whole is thought to referto a satyric drama on the subject of the Lydian Hercules. The spacious and lofty exedra in which these paintings are has a thresh-old of white mosaic, bordered with black zones, with ornaments in themiddle like shields, in the shape of a half moon. The floor is painted withblack fillets, except a piece of mosaic in the centre, in which are representedtwo diotce^ or double-handled wine jars, with shoots of vine which interlaceand surround a rectangular piece of marble, formed of twenty-two squaresoi giallo antico. The walls, which are painted in yellow compartments on a FRESCO IN HOUSE OE SIRICUS.
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ij^/vJ. THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 83 red ground, terminate above in a bold scroll border, within the s^iirals ofwhich are depicted quadrupeds and winged Cupids in various attitudes.Above this border, up to the roof, the walls are painted with pieces of archi-tecture and other ornaments. The whole is surmounted by a small cornicesupporting the roof, which is richly decorated with stuccos and gilt bas-reliefs. The three pictures before mentioned are upon a red ground, andframed as it were in a meander, in the fashion of a cornice, and adorned atthe corners with fantastically shaped animals. At the sides of them are seencapricious pieces of architecture, on the top of which, as on an acroterium,stand centaurs and beasts in ferocious attitudes. Those on each side of thepicture of Hercules contain the image of Apollo )Musagetes, with the bowand lyre (not seen in the photograph), and the Muse Calliope, with a rollof paper m her hand. The remaining Muses, painted on a yellow ground,with accurate

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