Painted birds at Pompeii
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Brian A. Sparkes
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The wall-paintings in the houses at Pompeii and in other Campanian towns can provide evidence for the birds that were known in Italy in the ยฎrst centuries BC and AD, because they are painted with remarkable accuracy. However, the paintings as total works of art must not be interpreted in too realist