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Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, at the right and the left of the tablinum (seen inFig. 138), opened into large dining rooms, one (E) nearly square,the other (F) oblong. Both had large windows on the sideof the peristyle, and the one at the left also a door openingupon the colonnade. The mosaic pictures in the floors har-monized well with the purpose of the rooms. In one were fishesof various kinds, and sea monsters ; in the other was the picture THE HOUSE OF THE FAUN 287 — often reproduced — in which the Genius of the autumn is rep-resented as a vine-crowned youth sitting on a panther and drink-ing out of a deep golden bowl. The colonnade of the first peristyle was of one story (Fig.136). The entablature of the well proportioned Ionic columnspresented a mixture of styles often met with in Pompeii, a Doricfrieze with a dentil cornice. The wall surface, were divided bypilasters and decorated in the first style. In the middle of thegarden the delicately carved standard of a marble fountain basinmay still be seen.
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First perist.vle with colonnade and fountain basin (G) Exedra. (H) atrium, the first peristyle, and a corner of the second peristyle, restored Corner of the secondperistyle (Kj The open front of the broad exedra (H) was adorned with twocolumns, and at the rear was a window extending almost fromside to side, opening upon the second peristyle. Between thecolumns of the entrance were mosaic pictures of the creaturesof the Nile, — hippopotamus, crocodile, ichneumon, and ibis;and in the room, filling almost the entire floor, was the mostfamous of ancient mosaic pictures, the battle between Alexanderand Darius. This great composition has so often been reproduced that weneed not present it here ; as illustrating the style and treatment,however, we give a small section, in which the face of Alexanderappears (Fig. 137). The mosaic is a reproduction of a paintingmade either in the lifetime of Alexander, or soon after his death.The battle is perhaps that of Issus. The left side of the picture

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