Pompeii

".... I went with Tischbein in Pompeii, admiring right and left all those magnificent views already known to us thanks to the painters of landscapes, and now we presented themselves at their beautiful together. With its smallness and narrowness of space, Pompeii is a surprise for any visitor: narrow roads, but straight and lined with sidewalks, houses without windows, receiving light from the courtyards and rooms galleries through the doors that open to you, the same public buildings, the bench at the city gate, the temple and a villa nearby, similar to most models and dollhouses that true homes. But everything, rooms, corridors, arcades, is painted in the most vivid colors: the walls are monochromatic and have at its center a painting executed to perfection, but today almost always removed; the corners and at the ends, slight and graceful arabesques, from which the place of children and graceful figures of nymphs, while in other wild animals and pets points emerge from large clumps of flowers. And desolation which now stretches over a city buried first by a rain of lava and ash, and then looted by the excavators, well still attests to the artistic taste the joy of living of an entire people, taste and joy of which today even the most passionate lover has no idea, nor feeling nor need."He described Goethe Pompeii in the Italian Journey. Keywords current that surges with the harsh reality and the history of one of the most fascinating archaeological sites in the world.

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