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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 424

An illustration from Companion to Roman history, 1912, leaf 424
of less artistic importancethan a narrow strip which runs below the panels and is decoratedeither with Psyches gathering flowers or w4th Erotes engaged inwork or play. In one section we find them busy with the manu-facture and sale of olive-oil, in another they are employed as 1 The graffiti found… … Pompeian wall-painting (ornate style). 408 ART CHAP. VIII coiners.^ Beneath the pilasters this frieze is interrupted by narrowsections decorated partly in the same style, partly with mytho-logical paintings, small in size and sketchy in execution, butextraordinarily effective in conveying an…

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