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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 116

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old, and thecolouring much worfe; the back is notcovered with any drapery, but ap-pears of the colour of blacki£h brick,even amidft the lights. It is, be-fides, altogether wretchedly drawn,the hips being as broad q^ the fhoul-ders. In a word, there is no digni-ty in the figures; and though fom^eof… … C 69 ] the life. Such is that reprefentingthree half length figures of womenupon the fore-ground, and in theback-ground a man ftanding in thewater up to his cheft, and holdinga bent or crooked ftafF in his lefthand. This is fuppofed to be theJudgment of Paris. Another piece exhibits, as it is…

Art, Greco-Roman · Vesuvius (Italy) · Herculaneum (Extinct city)

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