Pompeii : its life and art / tr. into English by Francis W. Kelsey ... with numerous illustrations from original drawings and photographs.

  • August Mau
Date:
1902
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Credit: Pompeii : its life and art / tr. into English by Francis W. Kelsey ... with numerous illustrations from original drawings and photographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specimen illustrations: Many entire walls as well as single paintings are reproduced in color in the extensive works by Zahn, Die schonsten Orna- mente und merkwurdgsten GemMde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae, nebst einigen Grundrissen und Ansichten (Mit deutschem und franzbsischem Text. Drei Abtheilungen in 30 Heften, 302 Tafeln. Berlin, 1827-1859) ; and Niccolini, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei designati e descritti (Naples, 1854-1901). Both works are rarely found complete, and the plates of the second in particular leave much to be desired in respect to draw- ing as well as coloring; it has therefore been thought best not to encum- ber these notes with detailed references to them. A number of walls are shown also by Roux, Herculanum et Pompdi (8 vols., Paris, 1840), vol. i (108 plates), and by D’Amelio, Dipinti Murali di Pompei, Naples, 1888. Professor Mau has in preparation a new work on wall decoration which will be illustrated by colored plates similar to those in the atlas to his Wandmalerei. The sources of the illustrations in this and the following chapter are given in our List of Illustrations, p. .x.xv. Preparation of the wall [p. 456J : Vitr. VII. iii; cf. also Middleton, The Remains of Ancient Rome (2 vols. London, 1892), vol. i, pp. 91-103. Decoration of the house of Lucretius [p. 457] : see references on p. 528. The four styles of decoration [p. 457] : suggestive critical comments by WiCKHOFF, Roman Art (English trans. by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong, London, 1900), pp. 117 tf.; but see the review of the German original by Mau, Rom. Mitth., vol. 10 (1895), pp. 227-235. Decoration of the second style in Rome [p. 462] —house of Germanicus on the Palatine: M.vu, Due pareti d’una stanza sul Palatino, Ann. dell’ Inst., vol. 52 (1880), pp. 136-149, and Mon. dell’ Inst., vol. ii, pi. 22-23; Mau, Geschichte der dec. Wandmalerei, pp. 196-205 and pi. 9. House in the Farnesina i^arden: Not. d. Scavi, 1879, pp. 15, 40, 68, 114, 141, 179-180,267, 314, 333, 1880, pp. 32, 127-128, 138-140, and pi. 4 (plan) ; Mau, Parete dipinta della casa antica scoperta nel giardino della Farnesina, Ann. dell’ Inst., vol. 54 (1882), pp. 301-308; Hulsen, Fregio dipinta nella casa antica scoperta nel giardino della Farnesina, ibid., pp. 309-314; Mau, Pitture della casa antica scoperta nella villa Farnesina, Ann. dell’ Inst., vol. 56 (1884), pp. 307-322, vol. 57 (1885), pp. 302-318; Mon. deir Inst., vol. ii, pi. 44- 48, vol. 12, pi. 5, ^a, 7, 7 a, 8, 17-34; Supplemento (1891), pi. 32-36; espe- cially Lessing and Mau, Wand- und Deckenschmuck eines romischen Hauses aus der Zeit des Augustus (Berlin, 1891 ; with 16 plates from the same blocks as those in the Mon. dell’ Inst.) ; Helbig, Fiihrer durch die Sammlungen klassischer Altertumer in Rom, vol. 2, pp. 226-223, nos. 1107- 1108, 1119-1122, 1124, 1129-1136, 1141-1144, 1146-1148, 1151. CHAPTER LV. THE PAINTINGS Of the paifdhigs m general: the paintings discovered prior to 1868 are described, with references to the literature, by W. Helbig, WandgemMde der