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CHAPTER LV

. THE PAINTINGS

_Of the paintings in general_: the paintings discovered prior to 1868 are described, with references to the literature, by W. HELBIG, Wandgemaelde der vom Vesuv verschuetteten Staedte Campaniens (Nebst einer Abhandlung ueber die antiken Wandmalereien in Technischer Beziehung, von Otto Donner, Leipzig, 1868); those discovered after the publication of Helbig's work and before 1880, by A. SOGLIANO, Le pitture murali Campane scoverte negli anni 1867-1879 (supplemento all' opera dell' Helbig, Naples, 1879. Published also in the volume, Pompei e la regione sotterrata dal Vesuvio, for which see p. 513); those that have come to light since 1879 are described by MAU in his reports (see note to Chap. IV) and in the Notizie degli scavi; cf. also HELBIG, Untersuchungen ueber die campanische Wandmalerei (Leipzig, 1873). Besides the reproductions of paintings by ZAHN and NICCOLINI mentioned above (p. 544), the more important examples are published in the Real Museo Borbonico (see Index at the end of vol. 16, pp. 37-58); ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei, vols. 1-5 (Paris, 1840); ROCHETTE, Choix de peintures de Pompei, la plupart de sujet historique (lithographiees en couleur par M. Roux, et publiees ... par M. Raoul-Rochette; 7 livraisons in fol., Paris, 1844-1853, incomplete); PRESUHN, Pompeji, Die neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881 (Edit. 2, Leipzig, 1882; 80 chromolithograph plates); and in other works the titles of which are easily accessible in Furchheim's Bibliografia. The colored plates presented by A. NICCOLINI, Arte Pompeiana Monumenti scelti (a selection of 55 plates from the larger work, Naples, 1888), give a false idea of the paintings reproduced.

_No evidence of development in composition or technique_ [p. 471]: cf. WICKHOFF, Roman Art, pp. 139 ff.

_Hercules and Antaeus_ [p. 472]: Bull. dell' Inst., 1876, p. 101; SOGLIANO, Le pitture murali Campane, no. 495.

_Mosaic pictures on the floor_ [p. 472]: as in the house of the Faun; see references on p. 533. For the Pompeian mosaics in general, see Gli ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell' antica Pompei, 3 vols. Naples, 1796-1808, vols. 1 and 2; Museo Borb., Index at the end of vol. 16, pp. 35-37; ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei, vol. 5 (latter part, 32 plates).

_Group of Admetus and Alcestis in architectural framework_ [p. 473]: SOGLIANO, op. cit., no. 506.

_Seafights_ [p. 474]: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1576-1580 (those of the Macellum are shown in a colored plate by MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 3, pl. 46); Roem. Mitth., vol. 11 (1896), p. 56, nos. 113-116, and SOGLIANO, Mon. dei Lincei, vol. 8 (1898), p. 310, fig. 33; cf. also SOGLIANO op. cit., nos. 669-670.

_Xenia_ [p. 474]: Vitr. VI. VII (X) 4; HELBIG, Wandegemaelde, nos. 1661-1718. For fig. 266 cf. Museo Borb., vol. 6, pl. 38; HELBIG, no. 1690.

_Landscapes_ [p. 475]: ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei, vol. 3 (end; 30 plates); HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, pp. 385-394; SOGLIANO, op. cit., pp. 141-144.

_Tadius, Ludius_ [p. 475]: Plin. N. H. XXXV. X. 116. In Mayhoff's text (vol. 5, 1897) the name is given as Studius. Cf. HELBIG, Beitraege zur Erklaerung der campanischen Wandbilder. Rhein. Mus., vol. 25 (1870), pp. 393-407. _Decoration of the villa at Prima Porta_: BRUNN, Scavi di Prima Porta, Bull. dell' Inst., 1863, pp. 81-86; Antike Denkmaeler des Kaiserlich deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, vol. 1 (1890), pl. 11, 24.

_Group of musicians_ [p. 476]: Museo Borb., vol. 1, pl. 30; HELBIG, Wandegemaelde, no. 1442.

_Paquius Proculus and his wife_ [p. 477]: Bull. dell' Inst., 1868, p. 204; SOGLIANO, op. cit., no. 673.

_Busts of youths with the names of Homer and Plato_ [pp. 477-478]: found in 1892 in the tablinum of the small house joined to the house of the Silver Wedding [fig. 146, [delta]]; reproduced, with fuller description, Roem. Mitth., vol. 8 (1893), pp. 19-23.

_Paintings of Achilles in the house of Castor and Pollux_ [p. 478]: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1297, 1307.

_Scenes of combat_ [p. 478]--_Hercules, from Herculaneum_: Pitture di Ercolano, vol. 3, pl. 47, p. 247; ibid., vol. 4, pl. 5, p. 27; and Museo Borb., vol. 11, pl. 9; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1124, 1125. _Meleager and the boar_: FIORELLI, Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 40, 382; SOGLIANO, op. cit., nos. 508, 509. _Achilles and the fleeing Troilus_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1868, p. 37; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, pp. 460-461; cf. also SOGLIANO, op. cit., no. 548. _Combat between warrior and Amazon_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1871, p. 204; SOGLIANO, op. cit., no. 547, cf. also no. 548.

_Io and Argus, Io in Egypt_ [p. 479]: Museo Borb., vol. 2, pl. 12, vol. 10, pl. 2; ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei, vol. 2, pl. 59; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 131, 138. Cf. BRAUN, Elenco dei monumenti rappresentanti il mito di Io, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 10 (1838), pp. 328-330, and Mon. dell' Inst., vol. 2, pl. 59.

_Hecuba_ [p. 479]: Bull. dell' Inst., 1877, p. 13; MAU, Ettore riportato a Troia, pittura paretaria di Pompei, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 49 (1877), pp. 268-279, and pl. O, P (colored, at the end of the volume); SOGLIANO, op. cit., no. 579.

_Narcissus, Polyphemus, Apollo, and Admetus_ [pp. 479-480]: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1338-1367, SOGLIANO, op. cit., nos. 586-592; HELBIG, nos. 220-222, 1048.

_Idyllic pictures_ [p. 480]--_Selene and Endymion_: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 950-962; SOGLIANO, op. cit., nos. 456-457. _Paris and Oenone_: HELBIG, no. 1280. _Perseus and Andromeda_: HELBIG, nos. 1192-1198. _Bacchus and Ariadne_: HELBIG, nos. 1235-1240; SOGLIANO, no. 538; Roem. Mitth., vol. 11 (1896), pp. 52-53 (no. 98, house of the Vettii). _Hercules and Omphale_: HELBIG, nos. 1136-1140; cf. SOGLIANO, nos. 496, 497.

_Examples of a pathetic situation_ [p. 480]--_Aphrodite and the wounded Adonis_: HELBIG, nos. 335-340; SOGLIANO, no. 142. _Cyparissus_: SOGLIANO, nos. 109, 110; Roem. Mitth., vol. 11 (1896), p. 19 (no. 36, with illustration, house of the Vettii). _Europa and the bull_: SOGLIANO, no. 79; cf. HELBIG, nos. 123-130.

_Groups with figures in contrast_ [p. 480]--_Hephaestus and Thetis_: HELBIG, nos. 1316-1318 _c_. _Daedalus and Pasiphae_: HELBIG, nos. 1205-1208; Roem. Mitth., vol. 11, pp. 49-51 (with illustration, house of the Vettii). _Danae cast away_: HELBIG, nos. 119-121; SOGLIANO, nos. 76-78.

_Paintings in groups_ [p. 481]: TRENDELENBURG, Gegenstuecke in der Wandmalerei, Archaeologische Zeitung, vol. 9 (1876), pp. 1-8, 79-93. _Group of three paintings, Achilles_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1879, pp. 51-54 (Ins. IX. V. 2); SOGLIANO, nos. 572, 576, 577. _Group of two, Polyphemus, Aphrodite fishing_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1876, pp. 49-50; SOGLIANO, nos. 146, 472 (Ins. VI. XIV. 28); HELBIG, nos. 354, 1049 (house of Lucretius). _Group of two, Europa and Pan_: SOGLIANO, nos. 79, 196 (Ins. IX. V. 18). _Double group, Hercules and Artemis, Athena and Marsyas_: Roem. Mitth., vol. 5 (1890), pp. 263-269 (with illustrations), vol. 6 (1891), pp. 71-72 (Ins. V. II. 10).