Perhaps this is the moment Iphigenia recognizes Orestes in Euripides' 鈥業phigenia in Aulis'? The painting shows a pensive Orestes; his sister Iphigenia; his friend Pylades; King Thoas and a chorus of young and old women. Behind them is a statue of Diana with her quiver. Excavated in Resina in 1749. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own 鈥楢ntichita di Ercolano' (Antiquities of Herculaneum); Rome; 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.