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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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him, but only to direft him according to her will; it mouldfeem that Ihe is in an a&ion luch as is expreffed by that thought of Ovid, epifi. ix.v. 73, 74. where he fays of Hercules, when he was under the command of thebeautiful Iola: Inter Ioniacas calathum tenuiffe puellas Diceris, et dominae pertimuhTe minas.and v. 81, 82. (if indeed thefe verfes be Ovids): Crederis, infelix, fcuticae tremefadms habenis Ante pedes dominae procubuiffe tuae.Others in general remark, that Pliny, I. xxxvi. c. 5. reckoning up the fine piecesof fculpture which were at Rome in his time, obferves, that among the moft beau-tiful of thofe which were collected by Aftnius Potto, there were Centauri Nym-** phas gerentes Archefitae. They add moreover, that a certain mythologift, re-lating how NefTus in carrying Dejanira over the river Evenus would have ufed vio-lence towards her, remarks, that the centaurs ufed to place themfelves at the banksof rivers, to carry over women and afterwards abufe to them. PLATE
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( *°9 ) PLATE XXVI. tO TH E handfome female centaur (2) who is fo elegantlyfigured in this picture, carries upon her back a girlcloathed in yellow drapery (3): fhe is eafily difcovered to bea bacchant by her thyrfus, which fhe holds in her left hand;and by her hair, which is partly loofe, and partly tied up in a (1) N. 529. 1. in the catalogue. (2)) The firft who represented female centaurs was Zeuxis. This excellentpainter was much inclined to novelty, and did not employ his pencil upon trite fub-jedts, but beftowed the whole of his art on thofe which are uncommon and fmgu-lar: fuch is the character which Lucian gives of him. After defcribing minutelya picture of his, reprefenting a female centaur giving fuck to her young ones, heconcludes that this piece was principally admired for the novelty of the invention, andfor the fubjecl, which had not before been treated. From this paffage it mould feemwe may infer, not only that Zeuxis was the firft who painted this fubjeft, but thatit w

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