VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Casa dei
Capitelli colorati or Casa di Arianna
or House of Ariadne or House of the Coloured Capitals.
Linked to VII.4.32, VII.4.33 and VII.4.51. Excavated 1822, 1832 and 1846.
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VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-west across middle peristyle, from room 25.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 28, threshold or sill.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 28, east wall with bricked up niche. Looking east.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 28, south-east corner.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance to room 29, apsidal exedra
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, threshold with step to apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, apsidal exedra. Looking east.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room 29, apsidal exedra. Looking north-east.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1790.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room 29, apsidal exedra. Looking north-east.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1841.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, north wall of apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, north wall with remains of wall painting.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Room 29, mythological painting by La Volpe, from north wall, now completely lost.
According to Bechi in RMB this may be Achilles playing the lyre, with Patroclus leaning on the throne, with the two young girls Diomedea of Lesbos, Achilles' favorite slave, and Ifi of Skyros, dear and beloved to Patroclus..
See Real Museo Borbonico, vol. XIII, (1843), Tav. XXXVII.
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. Vol. 6, (VI). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 1081.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, north-east corner of apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, north-east corner of apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, east wall of apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. 1856 painting by Antonio Ala of east wall of apsidal exedra, room 29.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 611.
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VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Preparation drawing of painting of east wall of apsidal exedra, attributed to Antonio Ala,
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 610.
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VII.4.31/51 Pompeii (also entered at VII.1.25).
Room 29, apsidal exedra. Anonymous painting of decorative motifs.
According to the ICCD scheda –
La tempera raffigura un candelabro grottesco
costituito da delfini accoppiati desinenti in volute, da una sfinge appoggiata
ad un "gorgoneìon" e da un medaglione con un busto-ritratto di un
bambino. La tempera raffigura un particolare della decorazione pittorica
parietale in IV stile dell'esedra 31 della Casa dei Capitelli colorati a Pompei
(VII.4.31), rimasta in situ ma in cattivo stato di conservazione. Si vedano la
tempera e l'acquerello inventariati ADS 610-611 di cui il soggetto fa parte.
(The painting
depicts a grotesque candelabrum consisting of dolphins coupled in volutes, a
sphinx leaning on a “gorgon” and a medallion with a portrait-bust of a child. The
painting depicts a detail of the wall decoration in the IV style of Exedra 31
of the House of the Coloured Capitals in Pompeii (VII.4.31), still in situ but
in a poor state of conservation. See the painting and watercolour inventoried
ADS 610-611 of which the subject is part.)
This was seen on the right of the painting of a priestess receiving the offerings from a maid to deposit upon the altar, on the north wall of the apsed room, the vertical band with grotesque candelabra is still conserved.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 612.
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According to
Niccolini and Gell, this was from Strada Stabiana casa numero 57, VII.1.25.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, east wall of apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 29, wall painting of a priestess receiving the offerings from a maid to deposit upon the altar.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Room 29, east wall of apsidal exedra.
Drawing by Antonio Ala, of painting of a priestess receiving the offerings from a maid to deposit upon the altar.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 614.
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See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1410.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, niche for a statue in the centre of the apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, remains of wall painting of Leda and the Swan.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii.
First half of 19th century copy of painting of Leda and the Swan by Giuseppe Marsigli from east wall of apsidal exedra, room 29.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 616.
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VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. Room 29, Leda and the Swan on east wall.
Drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli, 1835.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 619.
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VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. 1833/34.
Room 29, Leda and the Swan, drawing by Zahn of painting on east wall.
See Zahn, W., 1842-44. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, (pl.20).
Painting by Zahn, -
Room 29, forming a border between panels, provenanced from the apsidal exedra on the right of the middle peristyle.
See Zahn, W., 1842-44. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, (pl.25).
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, south wall of apsidal exedra.
VII.4.31/51 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across middle peristyle, towards room 18, from apsidal exedra.
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