GREAT art is rising like a bright phoenix from the grey ashes around Mt. Vesuvius.
The world's greatest painters, according to the writers of ancient Greece and Rome, were GreeksPolygnotus, Zeuxis, Parrhasius and Apelles. But not a single picture from the hands of these legendary masters survives. To imagine what Greek painting looked like, scholars study the Roman art of Campania, the ancient resort area centering on Pompeii. The artists who decorated Campania's villas, inns and brothels drew their inspiration mainly from the Greek tradition, and when Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., their art was packed in stones and ashes and preserved....
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