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 . Venus m the House of the Rudder and Trident, called also, from these paintmgs, Casa di Marie e Venere. Ofthe same kind are a remarkable series ofeight small pictures in a bed-room in theHouse of Holconius, representing in squarecompartments the usual personages of theBacchic thiasos. Thus one of the compart-ments shows Bacchus himself, another,Ariadne, others, Bacchantes and Fauns,Paris with his crook and Phrygian cap, & annex
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 . Venus m the House of the Rudder and Trident, called also, from these paintmgs, Casa di Marie e Venere. Ofthe same kind are a remarkable series ofeight small pictures in a bed-room in theHouse of Holconius, representing in squarecompartments the usual personages of theBacchic thiasos. Thus one of the compart-ments shows Bacchus himself, another,Ariadne, others, Bacchantes and Fauns,Paris with his crook and Phrygian cap, & annexed photograph of Bacchus and aFaim will convey an idea of this sort ofpaintmg. The figures, so frequently recur-ring on the walls, of dancmg women are alsocommonly called Bacchantes; but accordingto more modern inqiiirers this is a are mere human dancers, perhaps,belonging to the lowest classes of society,executmo- some of the mimic dances ofantiquity. Some of the best specimens ofthis sort were fomid at an early period ina house near the Gate of Herculaneum,called, after them, Casa delle of these figures is represented in the. riGVRE IN THE HOUSE OF THE FEMALE DANCERS. accompanymg cut. FRESCO OF BACCHUS AND FAUN.
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