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32. Means of detaching Painting in Fresco.—Many at- 
tempts have been made to detach pictures in fresco from 
the walls, but without success. . Stefano Barezzi of Mi- 
lan, has lately found a very simple method of doing it, what- 
ever may be the size of the picture, and of transferring it to 
another wall without the least risk of injury. For this pur- 
pose he covers the picture with a cloth so prepared as to 
detach the picture completely, and leave the wall white. 
he same cloth is afterwards applied to another wall, to 
which the picture attaches itself, without losing the least 
trait. By this means many paintings have been detached 
from their primitive position. The trial has been made on 
rough or uneven as well as on smooth walls ; and always 
with the same success. The artist has received all possible 
encouragement from the Roman government. He is now 
engaged in separating the great picture of Marco D’Oggivne 
in the church della Pace, and it is hoped that by this process 
he will be able to preserve from the ravages of time the 
beautiful remains of the supper of Leonardi de Vinci.— 
Rev. Encyc. Mais 1821. 
_ 33. Pompeta.—The labours at this place have been cat- 
ried on with such activity that people may now pass through 
most of the streets. M. Williams, an English traveller, has 
lately visited these ruins. He entered by the Appian way 
through a narrow range of tombs: very well sculptured, on 
which he could read very distinctly the names of the dead. 
‘They have found near one of the gates of the city a sentry 
box, with the skeleton of a soldier holding a lamp in his 
hand. - greatest part of the houses, and public edifices 
preserve their ornaments of architecture and painting fresh 
and entire. The pavement of the streets is worn in many 
places with the wheels of carriages, and every where the 
life and activity of the inhabitants seem to have been all at 
once interrupted. At each step are discovered traces of 
industry of a people overwhelmed in the midst of their 
labour. Here the shop of a blacksmith, with the hammer 
resting on the anvil ; there the shop of a sculptor filled with 
the statues just sketched out, and blocks of marble ; the 
shop of a baker or a wine merchant, whose drawer contains 
money ; a school, in the midst of which is an elevation 1D- 
tended for the master ; a large theatre ; a court house; 4" 
