. Pompeii : its life and art . :- e JIMTWl Style, which was! in fashioi i some builoot nian\ oere freshly decal length inof dec than might hthat it was in \ of painting in;hl of when Pompiplex d and b ich is often most elreveals a finer to mod<he other two couldfirst . ?? o in mind, we rtpW<ftSMKSfe£ \ sis, to simple elemei !i in Plate X n of the wall ii irominent in I ate structural form at ?n fran k of th< the architects t • -ides of on Style are r< ins of all sha] iple at the beg i and additionsid intricate that taken i. CHAPTER LIV THE PAINTINGS The hanging of pictures upon
. Pompeii : its life and art . :- e JIMTWl Style, which was! in fashioi i some builoot nian\ oere freshly decal length inof dec than might hthat it was in \ of painting in;hl of when Pompiplex d and b ich is often most elreveals a finer to mod<he other two couldfirst . ?? o in mind, we rtpW<ftSMKSfe£ \ sis, to simple elemei !i in Plate X n of the wall ii irominent in I ate structural form at ?n fran k of th< the architects t • -ides of on Style are r< ins of all sha] iple at the beg i and additionsid intricate that taken i. CHAPTER LIV THE PAINTINGS The hanging of pictures upon the walls seems not to havebeen in vogue at Pompeii during the period to which the re-mains belong. The system of decoration left no room forframed paintings, and no traces of any such have been dis-covered. The paintings which have been preserved at Pom-peii, not merely the small groups and single figures introducedto enliven the design, but the large compositions as well, allformed a part of the wall decoration. The number is relatively large. In the catalogue by Helbig,published in 1868, there are nearly two thousand entries, in-cluding a few paintings from Herculaneum and other Cam-panian sites. The supplement compiled by Sogliano in 1879records more than eight hundred pictures brought to light inthe preceding decade. We are probably safe in estimating thewhole number of Pompeian paintings still in existence, or knownfrom description, as about thirty-five hundred. In all this wealth of examples, however, it is not possible tof
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