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In Pompeil
325 action. One duck flies into the water with a splash : an octopus has caught a lamprey : a lion is attacking a bull : Fig. 119. — The Parting of Achilles and Briseis. From the House of the Tragic Poet, at Pompeii. (Supposed to be from a Greek Painting.) and a horse is struggling with a leopard. The leading peculiarity of all these paintings is the intensity of their colouring, accounted for by the well-known custom in Italy
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