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 . ms to take place m the tent of Achilles, who sits in thecentre. Patroclus, with his back towards the spectator, and with a skin ofdeeper red, leads in from the left the lovely Briseis, arrayed in a long andfloating veil of apple-green. Her face is beautiful, and not to dwell uponthe archness of her eye, it is evident that the voluptuous pouting of herruby lip was imagined by the painter as one of her most bewitching attri-butes. Ac
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 . ms to take place m the tent of Achilles, who sits in thecentre. Patroclus, with his back towards the spectator, and with a skin ofdeeper red, leads in from the left the lovely Briseis, arrayed in a long andfloating veil of apple-green. Her face is beautiful, and not to dwell uponthe archness of her eye, it is evident that the voluptuous pouting of herruby lip was imagined by the painter as one of her most bewitching attri-butes. AchUles presents the fair one to the heralds on his right; and hisattitude, his manly beauty, and the magnificent expression of his counte-nance are mimitable. The tent seems to be divided by a drapery about breast high, and of asort of dark bluish green, like the tent itself. Behind this stand several war-riors, the golden shield of one of whom, whether intentionally or not on thepart of the painter, forms a sort of glory round the head of the principal hero. It is probably the copy of one of the most celebrated pictures ofantiquity. FRESCO OF MARS AND THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 107 When first discovered the colours were fresh, and the flesh particularlyhad the transparency of Titian. It suffered much and imavoidably duringthe excavation, and something from the means taken to preserve it, when acommittee of persons qualified to judge had decided that the wall on whichit was painted, was not in a state to admit of its removal with safety. Atlength, after an exposure of more than two years, it was thought better toattempt to transport it to the studii at Naples, than to suffer it entu-ely todisapjDear from the wall. It was accordingly removed with success in thesummer of the year 1826, and it is hoped that some remains of it may existfor posterity. The painter has chosen the moment when the heralds, Talthybius andEurybates, are put in possession of Briseis, to escort her to the
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