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Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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fhe may rather be Minerva, who, befides beingthe tutelary deity of Athens, is called by Lycophron v. 986. Sastor/y£j for whichfurname Paufanias affigns a reafon, ii. 21.—Befides, the fymbols of Diana are fome-times appropriated to Minerva, and the twogoddelfes confounded with each other. The 22 P L A T E V. The two little pieces of painting which reprefent variouskinds of fifh emerging from the water (20), although not ofcapital beauty, have neverthelefs their merit (21). f 20) See Cat. n. 3 12 and 302. Thefe have no relation to Thefeus, and were taken from different places. Therebeing many pieces of this kind which are not of importance enough to merit a par-ticular explanation; in order not to rob the public of the pleafure of obferving thegufto of the ancients in this way, it was thought proper to fill up fome vacancieswich them. (21) Vitruvius vii. 5. and Pliny xxxv. to. inform us what, and how great a partof houfes was allotted to thefe pretty trifles in ftucco-painting. PLATE
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( n ) PLATE VI. M f ; ^ HIS picture (2) is the companion of the preceding,JL and is executed in a manner (3) not inferior to it; butthe defign is not lb clear. The child who is fuckled by thehind may be Telephus. This incident certainly favours thatname (4.). The reft of the figures feem to bear a relation tohim (5). His father Hercules, adorned with his raoft remark-et) See Catalogue, n. 123.(2) Found at Refina along with the Thefeus. (3) The fame fkill is difcernible in the defign of this piece, and in the attitudesof the figures, as well as the fame manner of colouring. (4) Diodorus iv. 33. writes that Coryius called the child TjjA^ov, ano t>?j T^aa-yjgsXcKpa : Telephus, from the hind which had nourijhed him. Apollodorus iii. 9. Hygimtsf. 99.—Paafanias ix. 31. obferve, that among other beautiful works of excellenttirtifts which he had feen at Helicon, was a hind giving fuck to the \\xx\tTelephus. (5) Hercules, returning victorious from the war againft the Spartans, paid a vifi

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