A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 381
arkable inPompeii. The House of Cor-nelius RuFus is note-worthy for the remainsof its handsome atrium,with a bordered implu-vium in the middle, bywhich still stand themarble standards of atable, gracefully carvedwith lions, that havebeen often imitated bymodern designers. Aterminal figure of… … Fig. 151.—Pompeii, House of Cornelius Rufus. right-hand house is much plainer, anddoubtless was chiefly occupied by theslaves of the household. The house wasnamed House of the Quaestor from thepresence in the atrium of the left-hand 313 POxMrElI house of three metal-plateil ami linedinoiiey-chests;…
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