Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 345
Daughters of Niobe playing Knucklebones, Naples Museum Painting on Marble 322 THE GREEK PAINTERS ART In the Naples Museum are also preserved a seriesof pictures from Psestum. These record simple sub-jects in bright colors painted on a white ground, —warriors returning home, greeted by women… … Wall Painting, P^estum : Warriors returning Home be proved, seems probable. Paestum lost its inde-pendence as an Hellenic community when the Luca-nians conquered it in the fourth century beforeChrist. The costumes, therefore, are Lucanian andnot Greek; the profiles are not pure, or at least…
Painting, Greek · Painting, Greco-Roman
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