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English: The Three Graces were the beautiful sister goddesses Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer), daughters of Zeus and escorts of Apollo. They served Aphrodite, the goddess of love and personified grace, beauty, and wisdom. They lived on Mount Olympus and thought to spread the joy of nature. A fresco depicting the Three Graces was found in the House of T. Dentatus Panthera in Pompeii.

Translated related text: "We recognize these three goddesses, more beautiful than beauty itself, who, according to the poets, give birth among men to all sweetness and all joy, and without which the gods do not north their dances and feasts. This painting, found in the excavations of Civita, July 28, 1814, represents the three daughters of Eurynome, in a charming attitude, in truth, but already known by a crowd of ancient monuments. (l)Pindar., Olymp., XIV.2nd Series. — Paintings. 2 PAINTINGS. What's most curious about it are some entirely new attributes. We are not talking about the crowns of flowers that hold this beautiful hair elegantly raised: this adornment is common to a host of divinities. But the objects which the Charities hold in their hands, and which seem to fix their attention, recall in a very piquant manner the group of marble which Pausanias saw in Elis."

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Title: Herculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages analogues
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Barré, Louis, 1799-1857 Roux, H. (Henri), Sr Bouchet, Adolphe
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: Paris, Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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3 EXPLICATION DES PLANCHES, pawoaa& 2e «me. TABLEAUX. PLANCHE 91. On reconnaît ces trois déesses, pins belles que labeauté même, qui, suivant les poètes, font naître parmiles hommes toute douceur et toute joie, et sans les-quelles les dieux nordonnent pas leurs danses et leursfestins (i). Cette peinture, trouvée dans les fouilles deCivita, le 28 juillet 1814, représente les trois fillesdEurynome, dans une attitude charmante, à la vérité,mais déjà connue par une foule de monuments antiques. (l)Pindar., Olymp., XIV.2e Série. — Peintures. 2 PEINTURES. Ce quelle offre de plus curieux, ce sont quelques attri-buts entièrement nouveaux. Nous ne parlons pas descouronnes de fleurs qui retiennent ces belles cheveluresélégamment relevées : cette parure est commune àune foule de divinités. Mais les objets que les Charitéstiennent à la main, et qui paraissent fixer leur attention,rappellent dune manière fort piquante le groupe demarbre quePausanias vit en Elide(i), etherculanumetpomp18703barr

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