File:Herculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages (14596714217).jpg

Original file(1,682 × 2,768 pixels, file size: 866 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

edit
Description
English:

Identifier: herculanumetpomp18703barr (find matches)
Title: Herculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages analogues
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Barré, Louis, 1799-1857 Roux, H. (Henri), Sr Bouchet, Adolphe
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: Paris, Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
otales avec les battements du tambourin.Une seconde femme, dont le masqueest plus jeune, jouedune double flûte; et enfin, un petit garçon se tientprêt à souffler dans une espèce de cornet. Pauvre mu-sique, sans doute! mais les attitudes de toutes ces figuressont pleines dexpression et de franchise : leurs drape-ries sont traitées avec une ampleur remarquable. Tout le travail de cette mosaïque est fait de petitsparallélipipèdes dune pâte vitreuse factice, ainsi quelont prouvé le mosaïste Luchini et lauteur des Ruinesde Pompéi (i) ; pâte dont les couleurs sont dune viva-cité admirable et la finesse extraordinaire : les traits desfeuillages à lentour des masques, ceux des cheveuxet des paupières, sont dune subtilité telle, quils échap-pent au regard qui veut les détailler. Ce qui ajouteencore au prix de ce monument, cest le nom de lar- (1) Mazois, Ruines de Pompéi, rie, Mosaïques, introduction.t. II, p. 80. Voy. aussi notre 6e se- PE IN TITREE ■ Z™e Série. IP.S
Text Appearing After Image:
POMPEIAFA Z*i< P? T. 85 DEUXIÈME SÉRIE. 63 tiste écrit en lettres noires à la gauche et à la partie su-périeure du tableau : AI02KOYPIAH2 2AMI02 EIIOIH2EDioscorideSamienfecit. Ce nom, inconnu jusquici, en-richit le catalogue des artistes grecs qui ont cultivé cettebranche de lart. Les anciens ont apprécié comme nousle mérite du chef-dœuvre de Dioscoride ; car, selonlillustre Winkelmann, une belle fresque, trouvée en1759 dans les ruines de Stabia, nest quune copie dela mosaïque de Pompéi. La vignette représente trois masques, pris dans desfragments de fresque. Le premier est un masque defemme peint sur fond vert : il est dune pâleur extrême,comme celui du principal rôle de femme de toutes lestragédies (1); les cheveux sont blonds et chargés delornement dor appelé oncos (ôyxoç) (2). Ce grand masque est flanqué de deux plus petits,lun satirique et lautre dune expression comique; cedernier était destiné à un danseur, puisquil a la bouchefermée. PLANCHE 125.

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.


English: Full translated description of Plate 125: The action represented in the upper part of this plate belongs, without any doubt, to the theater of the ancients, and very probably to one of their tragedies. But so many of these dramas have perished, that it would be rash to positively assign such or such a scene among those which have come down to us. If, however, it is permissible to hazard some conjecture in this respect, it seems that the attitude, the disposition, the costume of the characters, adapt quite well to the scene of Oedipus The King, by Sophocles, in which Jocasta questions the shepherds of Polybius. The pale, greenish tint which covers the features of this woman indicates the horror inspired by the story of a great crime, by the discovery of a dreadful mystery.

As for the second scene, it belongs rather to the comic or satirical drama. These two characters are certainly two magicians of some barbarian nation, as they are represented on the stage. Both have a horse's feet: we see that the superstition which ascribes to the infernal powers the posterior extremities of a quadruped goes back to rather ancient traditions. There was, moreover, a Scythian nation, known under the name of Hippopods, to which these two bizarre beings may belong.

One of the magicians holds a ewer in her hand, and the other carries a little mummy: this last emblem, wholly Egyptian, is not, however, in complete disagreement with the preceding hypothesis. Indeed, Colchos was an Egyptian colony, and this country, famous elsewhere in the annals of magic, belonged to Sarmatia: now Sarmatia has sometimes been confused with other parts of the shores of Pontus, such as Seythia or the land of the Hippopods (I).
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14596714217/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)
At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
Flickr posted date
InfoField
30 July 2014

Licensing

edit
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.


Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14596714217. It was reviewed on 29 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

29 September 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current22:05, 29 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 22:05, 29 September 20151,682 × 2,768 (866 KB) (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': herculanumetpomp18703barr ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fherculanumetpomp18703barr%...

There are no pages that use this file.