. Pompeii : its life and art . iled head. 314 POMPEII The veiled Agamemnon appears in our painting, and the fig-ure of Calchas perhaps reflects the conception of the rest, it is difficult to establish a relation between thetwo pictures ; even if we did not know that Iphigenia, in thepainting of Timanthes, stood beside an altar, we could scarcelybelieve that a great painter would have represented her thusawkwardly carried. Undoubtedly the Pompeian painting, or itsoriginal, is indebted to the masterpiece of the Greek artist;but the decorative painter has adapted this to suit his pu
. Pompeii : its life and art . iled head. 314 POMPEII The veiled Agamemnon appears in our painting, and the fig-ure of Calchas perhaps reflects the conception of the rest, it is difficult to establish a relation between thetwo pictures ; even if we did not know that Iphigenia, in thepainting of Timanthes, stood beside an altar, we could scarcelybelieve that a great painter would have represented her thusawkwardly carried. Undoubtedly the Pompeian painting, or itsoriginal, is indebted to the masterpiece of the Greek artist;but the decorative painter has adapted this to suit his pur-pose, omitting the figures, the facial expression of which wasmost difficult to reproduce, and at the same time attempting toheighten the effect by making more prominent the helplessnessand terror of the victim. CHAPTER XL THE HOUSE OF THE VETTH The house of the Vettii, excavated in the years 1894-1895,bears the same relation to the other houses built in the Romanperiod that the house of the Faun does to those of the earlier. <- Fig. 150. — Exterior of the house of the Vettii, restored. time; it is the most important representative of its class. Itwas situated in a quiet part of the city, and was not conspicuousby reason of its size; its interest for us lies chiefly in its paint-ings and in the adornment of the well preserved peristyle. The relationship between the two owners, Aulus VettiusRestitutus and Aulus Vettius Conviva (p. 498) is not were perhaps freedmen, manumitted by the same master; 315 3i6 POMIKIl Conviva, as we learn from a painted inscription, was a memberof the Brotherhood of Augustus. The exterior of the house (Fig. 150) was unpretentious. Themain entrance was on the east side, and there was a side doornear the southeast corner ; elsewhere the street walls were un-broken except by small,square windows, partof which were in lowsecond story rooms. The vestibule (, a), as in the houseof Epidius Rufus (), was connectedwith the fauces (
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