The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 295
curses. Theprayers of Antigone are in vain exerted to appease hisrage. The young female beside Polinices is his sister Is-mena who appears to be inspired with those sentimentsof filial affection for which Antigone is celebrated. This composition, which was exhibited in 1806, is dig-nified, simple,… … THE EDUCATION OF BACCHUS POUSSIN. Mythologists have cited innumerable personages towhom the education of Bacchus was entrusted : accord-ing to some writers, the Fauns and Dryads superintendedthe early years of that divinity. This is the opinionadopted by Foussin. The infant Bacchus supported by a…
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