Dancers from a mural in Pompeii

Dancers from a mural in Pompeii.. Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows two dancers in fine transparent robes of green and yellow, elegantly dancing together touching thumb and index fingers. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own Antichita di Ercolano (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789

1749 1789 Antichità Antiquities Elegantly Ercolano Fingers Herculaneum Index Piroli Pompeii Removed Thumb Tommaso Transparent Triclinium

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