Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, looking south. October 2020.
Doorway at VIII.3.12, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south between VIII.5, on left, and
VIII.3, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
Pompeii. Vicolo dei 12 Dei, looking south. September 2005. Doorway at VIII.3.12, on right.
According to Fiorelli –
“The house consisted of a yard/courtyard immediately from the entrance doorway from the roadway, around which were the kitchen with hearth and a latrine, a cubiculum, an oecus decorated with figures of four-legged animals, a store-cupboard, and the triclinium lit from the same courtyard by a wide window, decorated with paintings of cupids in medallions surrounded by garlands, marine animals, four-legged animals, and a few paintings now taken away or faded. A doorway in this triclinium linked this house into the preceding shop.”
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.124).
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. Between 1819 and 1832 sketches by W. Gell,
cupids, four-legged animals and marine animals from
this house.
The drawings in the upper left, entitled “Street of the Forum” may
not be from this house, but somewhere nearby.
See Gell, W. Pompeii
unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post
1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 44 verso.
Bibliothèque de
l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant
numérique Num MS180 (2).
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VIII.3.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway, looking west.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south from entrance to doorways, on left to kitchen and latrine, and cubiculum, on right.
The cubiculum would have been decorated in the IV Style with a red zoccolo/dado with plants in panels, and with a yellow middle zone to the walls.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii., December 2018.
Looking towards south-west corner of yard/courtyard,
with doorway to cubiculum, on left, and into oecus, on right.
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Cubiculum, looking towards south-west corner. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. October 2020.
Looking towards west
side of yard/courtyard, with doorways to oecus, and corridor, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. September 2005.
Looking west from entrance across yard/courtyard towards oecus, and corridor leading to VIII.3.11.
The west and north wall of the oecus can be seen, which still shows some of the red panelled zoccolo painted with plants.
The middle zone was decorated with a yellow background, but the decoration has completely faded and disappeared.
The upper zone was painted white with a simple stucco cornice.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. Drawing attributed to Giuseppe Abbate of paintings of four cupids, described as from “the cubiculum in the house in Pompeii with entrance on the roadway called “della Regina” at the rear of the Foro Civile discovered in December 1839”.
The location of the original paintings was already lost by Helbig’s time.
They may or may not be from this house, but Abbate was definitely sketching in the house at this time, 1839/40.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (644 and 645).
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 1195.
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These were found in a room on a yellow background, from a house at the side of the Casa del Cinghiale, discovered in the month of November 1839.
See Zahn, W., 1852-59. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 73.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. October 2020. Doorways on north side of entrance yard/courtyard
On the left, the doorway leading to a corridor leading to VIII.3.11 and doorway to triclinium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii., December 2018.
Looking towards west wall of
triclinium, on the left is the doorway to atrium/courtyard, and doorway into
corridor leading to VIII.3.11
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north from entrance across yard/courtyard, through window to triclinium of VIII.3.11.
On the north wall of the triclinium (seen through the window), in the red painted zoccolo was a panel with a painted plant.
The middle area of the wall was painted white.
According to Breton, found in this room was a painting showing Urania pointing at the celestial globe with a baton.
Even in 1870, Breton said it had nearly faded and disappeared.
The other paintings in the house had entirely disappeared.
The house was named from a painting of the Three Graces, which was also lost.
See Breton, Ernest. 1870. Pompeia, Guide de visite a Pompei, 3rd ed. Paris, Guerin, (p.454).
VIII.3.12 Pompeii., December
2018.
Looking
towards east wall of triclinium, with remains of central painting and
medallion. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1842, of painting of a cupid riding a dolphin, from an unknown room.
The wording below the drawing reads “Painting found in a house after that of the Cignale in the Strada de’ Mercanti”.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 815.
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VIII.3.12 Pompeii. Pre-1827. Drawing of painting of Venus and Adonis from Pompeii
According to Real Museo Borbonico, vol. IV. Tav. XVII –
“To the right of
the Pompeian road that passes by the side of the Crypt of Eumachia, introduced
from the Forum opposite the Basilica, a house was found called “del Cerusico” because of some surgical instruments found in the
atrium, was painted in the middle of the beautiful grotesque style paintings,
the painting that we publish here …..”
See Real Museo Borbonico, Vol. IV, tav. XVII.
(Note: due to confusion over where the painting was actually found, which could have been found in other locations, see both VIII.5.24 and VIII.5.28)
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. Between 1819 and 1832, sketch by W. Gell
of painting of Venus and Adonis.
See Gell, W. Pompeii
unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post
1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 41.
Bibliothèque de l'Institut
National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant numérique
Num MS180 (2).
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See also VIII.5.28 and VIII.5.24, where the same painting is included as there is some mystery as to the actual place it was found.
VIII.3.12 Pompeii. Between 1819 and 1832, sketch by W. Gell of weeping cupid, seen in the painting Venus and Adonis, above.
See Gell, W. Pompeii
unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post
1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 42.
Bibliothèque de
l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant
numérique Num MS180 (2).
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VIII.5 Pompeii,
on left. Vicolo dei 12
Dei, looking south from Via dell’Abbondanza. VIII.3.12, on right.
VIII.3.12, on left. September 2005. Looking north on Vicolo dei Dodici Dei between VIII.3 and VIII.5.