An outline history of painting for young people and students (1883)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, White, Stokes, & Allen · leaf 48
Fig. II.—PoMPEiAX Walt.-painting. whole work. The colors used upon these different panels,as they may be called, were usually red, yellow, black, andwhite—more rarely blue and green. Sometimes the entiredecoration consisted of these small, variously colored spaces,divided by some graceful little… … 34 PAINTING. Fig. TO, of Demeter, or Ceres, enthroned is an exampleof such devotional paintings as were placed above thealtars and shrines for private worship in the houses of Pom-peii, or at the street corners, just as we now see pictures andsacred figures in street shrines in Roman Catholic…
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