The antiquities of Herculaneum . 1 [»] kind, whichvve may ob-amenters [3],Dver the wallition and co-ible to fketch ous fituations in gufti aetate, quiicus, ac topiariat indeed paintingis Pliny himfelf•orticos, arboursd the like. Vi-ibove, fpeaks ofviews of archi-lght them more?ibus i. e. vernis,funt ab inftitucrunt,>cationes, deinde varias diflribu-umnarumque et)cis, uti exedris, ambuhitionibus And then henebantur, nunclvcntor of this fque manner of in the room of)ccaufe the fame:afte. It feemshat Pliny meant, out. PLATE XXXIX. M IN this, [2] and other pictures of the fame kind
The antiquities of Herculaneum . 1 [»] kind, whichvve may ob-amenters [3],Dver the wallition and co-ible to fketch ous fituations in gufti aetate, quiicus, ac topiariat indeed paintingis Pliny himfelf•orticos, arboursd the like. Vi-ibove, fpeaks ofviews of archi-lght them more?ibus i. e. vernis,funt ab inftitucrunt,>cationes, deinde varias diflribu-umnarumque et)cis, uti exedris, ambuhitionibus And then henebantur, nunclvcntor of this fque manner of in the room of)ccaufe the fame:afte. It feemshat Pliny meant, out. PLATE XXXIX. M IN this, [2] and other pictures of the fame kind, whichreprefent imaginary pieces of archite&ure, we may ob-ferve once for all, that the painters, or rather ornamenters [3],intended, perhaps, no more by them, than to cover the wallwith fomething that was pleating in its compofition and co-louring [4] ; without giving themfelves the trouble to fketch £1] Catalogue, n. 66. [2] This, and the others which follow, were found in various fituations indigging at Refina. [3] Vitruvius, lib. vii. c. 5. calls thefe ornaments, expolitiones. [4] Pliny, xxxv. 4. fays : Non fraudando et Ludio divi AugufH aetate, qui<c primus inftituit amoeniffimam parietum pi&uram, villas, et porticus, ac topiaria opera, &c. Ludius then in the reign of Augujlus introduced, not indeed paintingupon walls, for that was very ancient, both in Greece and Italy, as Pliny himfelfobfervesin the fame place; but however the tafte of rcpreienting porticos, arboursof clipped trees, and other orname
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