Word: pompeianism
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Archeologist Maiuri's men cleared away the rest of the gravel. There, astonishingly preserved, was a 7-ft. mural of Venus reclining on a sea shell, attended by cupids. Unlike most Pompeian paintings, which have been dimmed and reddened by ash, rain and time, the mural had kept most of its original luster: deep sky-blues, rosy flesh tints, bright gold for the ornaments, rich brown for Venus' hair...
...style was just as interesting. Most art historians have put the antique Roman painters down as stiff copyists of the Greeks. But the Pompeian Venus has an easy flow of line, more than a small touch of expressionism-as if the Pompeians had begun to develop a style of their own just before the destruction. Maiuri placed it as the work of an unknown artist for the home of a wealthy Pompeian gentleman some time between the earthquake of 63 A.D. and the searing eruption of Vesuvius 16 years later. The absorbent qualities of the porous volcanic gravel at that...
...Elliott C. Carter, Jr. '30 using Italian folk songs as his theme. Masks and scenery are based on wall paintings from the period when mural art in Rome was most under the influence of the theatre. The stage setting itself is modelled after one familiar to visitors to the Pompeian room of New York City's Metropolitan Museum. The whole production will reproduce as closely as possible the actual atmosphere of the first century...
...Ledochowski in Rome. The 80 students who will study under eight priests at West Baden College will live in ordinary Jesuit routine - up at 5 a. m., to bed at 9 p. m., plenty of work, prayers, meditation. They may well be appalled in contemplating the hotel's Pompeian Court which, 200 ft. in diameter and six stories high, is supposed to be the world's largest room not supported by pillars...
Alice Brydon Ritchie, widow of Harold F. ("Carload") Ritchie, famed Toronto 'salesman who distributed Eno's Fruit Salt, Glover's Mange Medicine, Rubberset Brushes, Tanglefoot Fly Paper. Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian Cream all over the world (TIME, March 6), was elected president of her late husband's distributing firm, Harold F. Ritchie...