Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00maua (find matches)
Title: Pompeii, its life and art
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909 Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-1927
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ree parts is retained, but the painted cornice, nolonger restricted to the dentil type, appears in a variety offorms. The base also is treated with greater freedom. Fre-quently it is painted in strong projection, as if the rest of thewall above it were further from the eye, while upon the shelfthus formed are painted columns reaching to the ceiling andseemingly in front of the main part of the wall; such columnsand pillars, with Corinthian capitals, are seen in Plate XII, at theright and the left. Thus the designs of this style at first comprised only simpleelements, a wall made up of painted blocks or panels with a dadopainted in projection supporting columns that seemed to carryan architrave on which the ceiling rested ; there is an excellentexample in the house of the Labyrinth, on the walls of a roomat the rear of the garden. But the designs gradually becamemore complex, partly through the differentiation of the simpleelements, partly through the introduction of new motives, until
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PLATE XII.— SPECIMEN OF WALL DECORATION. SECOND ORARCHITECTURAL STYLE WALT. r)i:CORATION 463 a complete architectural system was developed. This systemdiffers from that of the fourth style, which is also architectural,in that it adheres in the main to actual or possible structuralforms, while those of the fourth style are fantastic in their pro-portions and arrangement. In this process of development two clearly defined tendenciesbecome manifest, one affecting the treatment of the upperdivision of the wall, the other the elaboration of a characteristicmotive which now first appears, a framework for the principalpainting ; for architectural designs are well adapted for the dis-play of pictures, and wall paintings now begin to have a promi-nent place in Pompeian decoration. The upper division tends more and more to be represented asan open space, behind the plane of projection in which the mainpart appears. Thus in Plate XII we see on either side a silvervase with fruits and vine leav

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