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Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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mbled. lie paints in this style a thousand otheringenious or amusing subjects, and also maritime cities of verypleasant effect, and at very little expense. Alas ! these paintingsso pleasing to Pliny,2 even to Augustus—for in his house recentlydiscovered on the Palatine is to be seen a picture of this kind :a street in Koine, women going out, other women looking down From a painting discovered at Stabii in 1758. (Monaco, le Musee national de Naples,pi. 250 2 Amomissiman picturam .... blandissimo aspectu .... argutiee facetissimi salts (Hist.Nat., xxxv. .57). Ancient Italy loved frescoes and painted illusions just as modern Italy does.Prom July, 1867, to May, 1870, 843 of them were discovered in Pompeii. (See catalogue ofM. Sogliano in Pompei e In regione sotterrata del Vesuvio, 1879). In 1867, M. Helbig countedand described J,!JfiS paintings in llerculaneum and Pompeii. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART IN THE TIME OE AUGUSTUS. 203 from a balcony upon them1—these charming paintings were
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Briseis taken away from Achilles.2 cheap, I admit, mini/no itnpendio, but they were by no means art, 1 See, p. 152, design of a fresco in the house of Livia. 2 From a painting in Pompeii. (Roux, Herculanwm et Pompei, vol. ii. 2nd series, pi. 72.)Achilles, surrounded by his myrmidons, looks at the youthful Briseis, who is led in byPatrocles. 204 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. and it is natural, this being their taste, that the Romans shouldhave had artisans instead of artists. At the same time, we knowthat Raphael Bought inspiration for the Loggie of the Vaticanfrom arabesques found in the baths of Titus; and though thepaintings in Pompeii were commonplace, some in Ilerculaneum andthe Farnesina are very graceful and charming, the Dancing Girl,for instance, the Dealer In Loves, Brlsels taken away fromAchilles, etc. An art highly esteemed by the Eomans of the present day,mosaic, covered .in Italy and the provinces the pavement of thevillas. They arc found everywhere, and are

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