Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 100
culaneum,are upon fome hiftorical fubjeds, andthe figures as large, or nearly as large,as the life, Plate vr. The firft pidure reprefents The-feus vidorious over the Minotaur.Thefeus ftands upright, and naked,except on the flioulder and left arm,which are covered with a piece ofdrapery. Young… … [6i ] figure of a woman, who has a qui-ver at her back, and a great affinitywith the ufual defcription of Diana.The compofition of this picture isvery cold: the principal figures (ef-pecially that of Thefeus) feem to becopied from ftatues. The two chil-dren who embrace his right and left arm,…
