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Title: The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city) Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79
Publisher: London : Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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orned with small but well-executed pictui*es. One in the frontrepresents Narcissus admiring himself in the fomitain. That on the left wallhas for its subject a Hermaphrodite leaning on the shoulder of SUenus; thaton the right, Bacchus accompanied by his thiasos, that is, his usual troop,or rout, discovering Ariadne. This last subject is a very common one in the paintings at Pompeii; butas it is well treated in this instance, and as the picture is in a very tolerablestate of preservation, we have inserted a photograph of it. Bacchus, after his arrival in Naxos, finds Ariadne simk in a profoimdslumber. Her face is hid in the pillows; over her head stands Sleep, withoutspread wings, as if to take his departure, and bearing in his left handa torch reversed, a symbol common to him. with his brother Death. Ayoung Faun lifts the sheet, or veU, in which Ariadne is enveloped, ia anattitude expressive of siu^rise at her beauty, and looks earnestly at the god. FRESCO OF BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. ^^^^
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THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 81 as if to discover what impression it makes upon him. Bacchus, crownedwith ivy and berries, clothed in a short tunic and flowing pallium, havingon his legs rich buskins, and holding in his right hand the thyrsus boundwith a fillet, appears to be approaching slowly and cautiously, for fear thathe should awake the nymph. Meanwhile, a Bacchante in the back-groundraises her tambourine, and seems to strike it strongly, as if summoning theBacchic troop to descend ffom the mountains. At the head of them isSilenus, also crowned with ivy, and supporting his footsteps with a longknotted staff. He is followed by a Faun plajdng on the double flute, andby eight Bacchantes. On a part of the mountain to the left, from Avhichsprings a tree, another Bacchante and Faim are looking on the scene below.*Around the picture is painted a sort of frame. The general appearance of a wall decorated with paintmgs in this stylewill be better understood by a \dew of one in the house of Siiic

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