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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    vom Vesuv verschlitteten Stadte Campaniens (Nebst einer Abhandlung liber die antiken Wandmalereien in Technischer Bezielmng, von Otto Donner, Leipzig, 1868) ; those discovered after the publication of Helbig's work and before 1880, by A. Sogliano, Le pitture murali Campane scoverte negli anni 1867-1879 (supplemento all’opera dell’ Helbig, Naples, 1879. Published also in the volume, Pompei e la regione sotterrata dal Vesuvio, for which see p. 513); those that have come to light since 1879 are described by Mau in his reports (see note to Chap. IV) and in the Notizie degli scavi; cf. also Helbig, Untersuchungen liber die campanische VVandmalerei (Leipzig, 1873). Besides the reproductions of paintings by Zahn and Niccolini mentioned above (p. 544), the more important examples are published in the Real Museo Borbonico (see Index at the end of vol. 16, pp. 37-58) ; Roux, Herculanum et Pompei, vols. 1-5 (Paris, 1840) ; Rochette, Choix de peintures de Pom- p^i, la plupart de sujet historique (lithographiees en couleur par M. Roux, et publiees . . . par M. Raoul-Rochette; 7 livraisons in fob, Paris, 1844-1853, incomplete); Presuhn, Pompeji, Die neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881 (Edit. 2, Leipzig, 1882 ; 80 chromolithograph plates); and in other works the titles of which are easily accessible in Furchheim’s Bibliografia. The colored plates presented by A. Niccolini, Arte Pompeiana Monument! scelti (a selection of 55 plates from the larger work, Naples, 1888), give a false idea of the paintings reproduced. No evidence of developjnent 171 co77iposition or technique [p. 471J : cf. Wick- HOFF, Roman Art, pp. 139 ff. Hercules and A7itaeus [p. 472] ; Bull, dell’ Inst., 1876, p. loi ; Sogliano, Le pitture murali Campane, no. 495. Mosaic pictures on the floor [p. 472] : as in the house of the Faun ; see references on p. 533. For the Pompeian mosaics in general, see Gh ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell’ antica Pompei, 3 vols. Naples, 1796-1808, vols. I and 2; Museo Borb., Index at the end of vol. 16, pp. 35- 37; Roux, Herculanum et Pompei, vol. 5 (latter part, 32 plates). Group of Adnietus a7id Alcestis m architectural fra}nework [p. 473] ; Sogliano, op. cit., no. 506. Seaflghts [p. 474] : Helbig, Wandgemalde, nos. 1576-1580 (those of the Macellum are shown in a colored plate by Mazois, Les mines de Pompei, vol. 3, pi. 46); Rom. Mitth., vol. ii (1896), p. 56, nos. 113-116, and Sogliano, Mon. dei Lincei, vol. 8 (1898), p. 310, fig. 33; cf. also Sogliano op. cit., nos. 669-670. Xe7ua [p. 474] : Vitr. VI. vii (x) 4; Helbig, Wandegemalde, nos. 1661- 1718. For fig. 266 cf. Museo. Borb., vol. 6, pi. 38 ; Helbig, no. 1690. La7tdscapes [p. 475]: Roux, Herculanum et Pompdi, vol. 3 (end ; 30 plates) ; Helbig, Wandgemalde, pp. 3^5~394i Sogliano, op. cit., pp. 141-144, Taditis, Ludius [p. 475] ; Plin. N. H. XXXV. x. 116. In Mayhoff’s text (vol. 5, 1897) the name is given as Studius. Cf. Helbig, Beitrage zur erkla- rung der campanischen Wandbilder, Rhein. Mus., vol. 25 (1870), pp. 393- 407. Decoratiott of the villa at Pri))ia Porta: Brunn, Scavi di Prima