Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 247
are feeding,fluttering, or reposing. As these paintings are in a villa built for Livia by Au-gustus, the Roman antiquaries have concluded that they are of that period; andconsequently may be with good reason attributed to the hand of Ludius. PAINTING. 223 were the pupils of the Greeks; what we said… … DANCING FIGURE, POMPEII. give us any idea of the colouring and painting of the ancients,which, though they exhibit many beauties, particularly in compo-sition, are evidently the works of inferior artists in a period ofdecline. At Pompeii there is scarcely a house the walls of whichare not decorated…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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