History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 143
the courseof the last and present generations, and there are now a considerable number ofancient wall-paintings to be seen in and about Rome. Of these, some havebeen left upon the walls where they were found ; some, with the plaster groundupon which they were painted, have been removed from the… … example of a mythologicalsubject, a picture of theunder world, with Orpheusand Eurydice, Pluto andPersephone, Oknos with therope-eating she-ass,09 as wellas the door-keeper {janitor),designed with the severesymmetry of a relief; andas an example of carefullyexecuted still life, the pictureof a…
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