384 Foreign Literature and Science; 
32. Means of detaching Painting in Fresco.—Many at-* 
tempts: have been made to detach pictures in fresco ‘from 0 
the walls, but without success. M. Stefano Barezzi of Mie «: 
Jan, has lately founda 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 a 
pose he covers the picture with\a cloth so prepared as to»: 
detach the picture completely, and. leave: the wall: whites 
The same cloth is afterwards applied to another wall, sod 
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 
roughor 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 «9 
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 r 
Rev: » Encye. Mais 1821. 
33. Pompeia-—The labours at this place have been car=- 
ried on with such activity that people may now pass throughs” 
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 asentry = 
box, with the skeleton of a soldier holding'a lamp invhis:: 
hand. o:'The 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 » 
the 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 ofa sculptor filled with 
the: statues just sketched out, and bloeks 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 in- 
tended for the master ; a large theatre ; a court house; an 
