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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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ith thebujfola, or door, in the middle, which alfo deferves atten-tion (7), ferve to perfuade us that it is a pronaos> or porch.Height twenty-nine inches and an half, width three feet fourinches. (5) In the fubfequent volumes will be exhibited other pictures, which will clearlydecide this doubr, which has been fo much controverted among the moderns. (6) Vitruvius, iii. 3. fays: Gradus in fronte ita funt conllituendi, uti fint femper impares ; namque quum dextro pede primus gradus adfeendatur, item in fummo templo primus erit ponendus. (7) Vitruvius, iv. 6. fays, that folding doors, fuch as are reprefented here,V aperturas habent in exteriores partes. Sagittarius, de Jan. Vet..cap. iv. § i. re-marks, that folding doors were appropriated to temples, and that they opened out-wards. See alfo Cujacms, obf. xiii. 27. /. iii. p. 378. upon the difference betweenthe Romans and the Greeks: the fir (I of whom had ilie doors of their houfe open-ing inwards, the latter outwards. PLATE M.XLT/1.
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( i8i PLATE XLIII.U THIS is a very pleafing picture. An ionic portico (2)(of which no more is feen than the capitals, and theentablature, with the frieze, ornamented with dolphins, tri-tons, and fome other fea monfters^ fupports a wooden building,,partly clofe and partly open. This latter part may be design-ed for a gallery (3) : the capital moft refembles the corinthian\the entablature, front, and roof, are fomewhat rambling andwhimfical. On one fide there is a fragment in the fame tafte,confirming of two wooden pilafters, which are united below; andthe outermost of them fuppcrts an amphora. On the otherfide appears another building, and a very long column, uponwhich a vafe is fet for ornament. From all this we may con-jecture, that the painter defigned here to reprefent a dining-room ; or elfe a tower, with a building of that fort (4), overthe hall of a country houfe : the trees, which are made by thepainter to extend their branches into the infide of the building (1) Catalogue, n.

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