Murals from different houses in Pompeii (circa 300BC to AD79): at top, wall paintings from the second atrium of the House of the Second Fountain of Shells (Casa della seconda fontana di Musaico), excavated in 1827, and below, a mural from a small room in the Casa di Championnet, excavated in 1799. Handcoloured lithograph by Trampe from an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn in his own "Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthumlichen Farben dargestellt" (Ornaments of all classical art epochs after the originals and depicted in their proper colours.), Dietrich Rei
Murals from different houses in Pompeii (circa 300BC to AD79): at top, wall paintings from the second atrium of the House of the Second Fountain of Shells (Casa della seconda fontana di Musaico), excavated in 1827, and below, a mural from a small room in the Casa di Championnet, excavated in 1799. Handcoloured lithograph by Trampe from an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn in his own "Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthumlichen Farben dargestellt" (Ornaments of all classical art epochs after the originals and depicted in their proper colours.), Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1870. It includes interior decorations by Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, medieval mosaics in Sicily, and Roman wall paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Wilhelm Zahn (1800-1871) was a German artist, architect and academic who traveled around Europe documenting classical and Renaissance architecture.
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