VI.1.7 Pompeii. House of the Vestals or Casa delle Vestali.

Linked to VI.1.6, VI.1.8, VI.1.24, VI.1.25 and VI.1.26.

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VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway and steps to room 14, from peristyle.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. 1838 drawing of doorway and steps to room 14, from peristyle.

Mars shown between various architectural paintings.

See Gli ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell'antica Pompei incisi in rame, 1838, pl. 5.

It is described as –

“Marte espresso fra vari ornati architettonici di una parete della Casa del Salve, incisa dal Cataneo”.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Chiantarelli, engraved by Raffaele Aloja showing wall decoration from peristyle wall.

It is described in Gli Ornati 1838 as –

“Appartiene questa bella parete al lato lungo del peristilio di una casa della Città di Pompei prossima alle porte.

Era dessa divisa in sei simmetrici compartimenti, e ciascuno di questi in altri tre.

Molto importante era la figura di Marte, che vedesi espressa nel mezzo de’primi compartimenti.”

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See Gli ornati delle pareti ed I pavimenti delle stanze dell’antica Pompei, 1838, pl.60.

See Giornale degli Scavi, NS III, 1874, tav. 3.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, south-west corner.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, north-west corner.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, north-west corner, looking west.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007.  Room 14, north wall.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, north-east corner.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, south-east corner.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, south wall, with steps and doorway to north portico.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Wall between rooms 14 and 15 on north side of peristyle.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, east wall with one of three niches.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche on east wall of room 15.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, north wall with one of three niches.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche on north wall of room 15.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. Pre-1937-1939. Looking towards niche on north wall of room 15.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 406.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. West wall of room 15.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche on west wall of room 15.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 16, with room 17 straight ahead. Looking east.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west into room 16 from entrance VI.1.26.

VI.1.7/26 Pompeii. Looking south across rooms 16, 15, 14 on the cork model at Naples Museum.

VI.1.7/26 Pompeii. c.1819 sketch by W. Gell, looking south towards peristyle, from above room 16.

See Gell W & Gandy, J.P: Pompeii published 1819 [Dessins publiés dans l'ouvrage de Sir William Gell et John P. Gandy, Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompei, 1817-1819], pl. 16.

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VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 17, and doorway to room 18 at rear.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 18.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 18, east wall with window overlooking Vicolo di Narciso.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south into room 19 from room 17.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east into room 19.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, east wall.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, remains of painted plaster on east wall.

A 19th century watercolour of this blue wall can be seen in Current World Archaeology, No. 4, March/April 2004, on page 36.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. Room 19. Mid-19th century watercolour by Serafino Mastracchio showing the east wall.

The painting depicts a painted wall decoration with a central painting depicting the dressing of a young woman.

The plinth is made up of dark marble slabs.

The median area has three light blue panels: the two side panels, edged with golden plant interweaving, have a female figurine in flight in the centre.

The central panel, framed by articulated architectural scenes, shows in the centre a painting with the dressing table of a woman helped by two maids, while two others are placed on the left side.

The upper register, again with a blue background, is decorated with human figures within slender architectural wings.

An embroidered curtain and cupids decorate the lunette closing the composition at the top.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 117.

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VI.1.7 Pompeii. Early 19th century watercolour of the east wall.

See Zahn, W., 1828. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: I. Berlin: Reimer. (Plate 99).

VI.1.7 Pompeii. Early 19th century (before 1808) painting by Giuseppe Chiantarelli of the east wall.

It is described as “Una Dama Romana alla toilette.

Parete molto importante si pel soggetto, che per gli eleganti ornati architettonici, che la decorano: appartiene alla casa detta del Salve, incisa dal Casanova (Domenico)”.

See Gli ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell'antica Pompei incisi in rame: 1838, p. 3, pl. 2.

VI.1.7 Pompeii, on right. Pre-1849. Painting on right by Zahn is of fragment of wall of room 19.

On the left is part of a wall in the tablinum of VII.4.48.

See Zahn W., 1849. Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthümlichen Farben. Berlin: Reimer, Taf. 63.

VI.1.7 Pompeii. Early 19th century (before 1808) drawing of Una Dama Romana alla toilette, from the east wall.

See Gli ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell'antica Pompei incisi in rame: 1838, p. 3, pl. 2.

VI.1.7/25 Pompeii. Pre-1828. Paintings by Zahn, according to him – the two decorations on the blue background are from VI.1.7.

The two decs with different colours, see Pl.57 and an entire wall in Pl. 89 (VIII.3.14)

The bottom decorations are in Naples Museum.

The columns are from near the Herculaneum Gate.

See Zahn, W., 1828. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: I. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 81.

VI.1.7/25 Pompeii. c.1819. Sketches by W. Gell.

See Gell W & Gandy, J.P: Pompeii published 1819 [Dessins publiés dans l'ouvrage de Sir William Gell et John P. Gandy, Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompei, 1817-1819], pl. 47.

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VI.1.7/25 Pompeii. Undated paintings by Chenavard. Mixed decorations from various places, Diomedes, Grande Rue etc. 

(This painting has also been included in Via Consolare.) The Grand Rue would have been Via Consolare).

On the left, painted candelabra described as being from the Grand Rue.

Next to it, painted decoration from Maison de Campagne (Diomedes).

Next to that, painted decoration from Maison de Campagne (Diomedes).

On the right, two decs from Maison de Campagne (Diomedes).

On the upper right, the painted architecture is described as being from the Grand Rue.

See Chenavard, Antoine-Marie (1787-1883) et al. Voyage d'Italie, croquis Tome 3, pl. 112.

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VI.1.7/25 Pompeii. Pre-1831.

Mixed decorative elements, very similar to ones in above photo. (Also included in Via Consolare).

See Debret F. (1777-1850), Piranesi F. (1758-1810), LaBrouste H. (1801-1875). Voyage en Italie-De Naples à Paestum, pl. 128.

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VI.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, remains of painted plaster on east wall.

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