. A short history of art . POMPEIIAN WALL-PAINTING A characteristic blend of natural and architectural features; nofigures in this PS i 1^ V Q 3 :z; S < i 1^ +j J o ^ £ PS c o H u O 3 t—( CO >- o s ROMAN PAINTING The great painters of classic times are not known to us byany works executed by their own hands; and we must re-member that it is not easy to obtain an idea of the perfectionof Greek or even Grasco-Roman painting from the descrip-tions of classic authors, and from copies of celebrated worksexecuted by house-decorators who of necessity must havebeen inferior to the artists
. A short history of art . POMPEIIAN WALL-PAINTING A characteristic blend of natural and architectural features; nofigures in this PS i 1^ V Q 3 :z; S < i 1^ +j J o ^ £ PS c o H u O 3 t—( CO >- o s ROMAN PAINTING The great painters of classic times are not known to us byany works executed by their own hands; and we must re-member that it is not easy to obtain an idea of the perfectionof Greek or even Grasco-Roman painting from the descrip-tions of classic authors, and from copies of celebrated worksexecuted by house-decorators who of necessity must havebeen inferior to the artists who produced the originals. Anyone who has been in one of the galleries of Europe, and whohappens to have turned some day from a great picture whichhe has been admiring to glance at the copyists who areworking from it, can realise the difference that must haveexisted between the fresco of the Aldobrandini Marriage, forexample, and the painting which was its prototype. Antique painting is known to us from wall-paintings,many of them frescos, discovered at Herculaneum, Pom-peii, Stabiae, and in Rome and its vic
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