. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 255. — A fruit piece, Xenion. THE PAINTINGS 465 Landscapes are numerous and of all sizes. Occasionally agarden wall is covered with a single large painting, in whichvillas, gardens, roads, and harbors are realistically pictures belong to a class of landscapes that originated in/ Italy ; the name of the artist who first painted them is probablySextus Tadius, but the reading of the passage of Pliny theElder, in which the name occurs, is uncertain. The finestexample, however, is not at Pompeii, but in the villa of Livia,at Prima Porta, near Rome,
. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 255. — A fruit piece, Xenion. THE PAINTINGS 465 Landscapes are numerous and of all sizes. Occasionally agarden wall is covered with a single large painting, in whichvillas, gardens, roads, and harbors are realistically pictures belong to a class of landscapes that originated in/ Italy ; the name of the artist who first painted them is probablySextus Tadius, but the reading of the passage of Pliny theElder, in which the name occurs, is uncertain. The finestexample, however, is not at Pompeii, but in the villa of Livia,at Prima Porta, near Rome, the decoration of which has bvsome been attributed to Tadius (or Ludius) himself. The ex-amples found at Pompeii all belong to the time of the fourthstyle, and are quite unlike the paintings of the Villa of Fig. 256. —A landscape painting. Large landscapes sometimes have a place in the principalpanels of the walls. These are all of Hellenistic origin, andare found almost without exception in the decoration of thethird style. They generally represent a quiet nook of wood-land, with high cliffs; in the foreground is a shrine perhapsmore than one — with figures of men sacrificing or coming tooffer worship. The great majority of the landscapes, however, are introducedinto various parts of the decoration outside of the large panels,and are quite small. In them we see little shrines or villas bythe seaside; a river with a bridge on which a traveller appearscrossing the stream; or buildings on an island or peninsula inthe edge of a body of water, as in Fig. 256. I Mten they are 2H 466 POMlKII simply light sketches; now and then one of these small land-scapes is painted in a peculiar tint, as if the scene were repre-sented by moonlight. The genre paintings are of special importance on accoun
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