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Prof. A. W. Van Buren Sala LKXXIX., N° 10

nmrCUteOOO_u0iMcnl seseAind he is bearing 111436. Giasone davanti a Pelia
the babe Dionysus.
TX, 5, 26 Esedra.

” a typical example of wall-decoration in the third style 2). The

lione eDe large central panel in the main register was removed in modern times, iti
also the one on the south wall. A special feature consists of the il
panels high up on the back wall. The two figures looking forth from Iii
the side panel have their counterparts, e. ge, in the tablinum of
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V, i, 26, Domus L. Caecili Iucundi 3); in our instance, one is hold-
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ing a book; the one to the left has yellow hair, that to the right

browmish; both are probably women.

But it is the central panel which demands fuller attention.

Against the blue background there appears a square pedestal, the

color of white marble, with red border lines and vaguely colored

inner lines on its front; its right side as one looks at it, which
is rendered isometrically, is now practically the same color as the
background, and terminates to front and back in vertical border of

red. Upon this pedestal there stands the powerfully proportioned

figure of a youth, not the tone of marble, but flesh-colored (with

some yellow tone) - too light to suggest burnished bronze, unless
the original color has greatly faded; he rests his weight upon his
right foot, his relaxed lett being extended so as to appear above
the side of the pedestal. The scarf floating from behind his

shoulders is of very pale blue against the darker blue of the back-
ground. On his left shoulder sits a babe; the youth's raised right

hand appears to occupy a position over his head; we cannot now defi-

nitely say that it holds the object which, when the painting was
better preserved, was described as "a bunch of grapes"; but one
can still discern some object further to the right, near the infant's
right hand, in darker color than the rest of the picture.

2) Room "a" in the plan opposite p. 22 of Bull. da. Inst. 1879. Mau
described the house, op. cit., 1880, 19-26, 73-87.

3) Mau, Dec. Wandmalerei in P., pls. 13, 14.