Pompeian Styles from An
Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration
Today we present
selections from An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration,
published in New York by E. Weyhe in 1928. It includes an explanatory text by
the art historian, Helmuth Theodor Bossert. The decorative
plates we are featuring today are depictions of wall painting styles from the ancient
Roman city of Pompeii, which was
destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.