The antiquities of Herculaneum . ith thebujfola, or door, in the middle, which alfo deferves atten-tion [7], ferve to perfuade us that it is a pronaos> or twenty-nine inches and an half, width three feet fourinches. [5] In the fubfequent volumes will be exhibited other pictures, which will clearlydecide this doubr, which has been fo much controverted among the moderns. [6] Vitruvius, iii. 3. fays: Gradus in fronte ita funt conllituendi, uti fint femper impares ; namque quum dextro pede primus gradus adfeendatur, item in fummo templo primus erit ponendus. [7] Vitruvius, iv. 6. f
The antiquities of Herculaneum . ith thebujfola, or door, in the middle, which alfo deferves atten-tion [7], ferve to perfuade us that it is a pronaos> or twenty-nine inches and an half, width three feet fourinches. [5] In the fubfequent volumes will be exhibited other pictures, which will clearlydecide this doubr, which has been fo much controverted among the moderns. [6] Vitruvius, iii. 3. fays: Gradus in fronte ita funt conllituendi, uti fint femper impares ; namque quum dextro pede primus gradus adfeendatur, item in fummo templo primus erit ponendus. [7] Vitruvius, iv. 6. fays, that folding doors, fuch as are reprefented here,V aperturas habent in exteriores partes. Sagittarius, de Jan. iv. § i. re-marks, that folding doors were appropriated to temples, and that they opened out-wards. See alfo Cujacms, obf. xiii. 27. /. iii. p. 378. upon the difference betweenthe Romans and the Greeks: the fir (I of whom had ilie doors of their houfe open-ing inwards, the latter outwards. PLATE [ i8i PLATE THIS is a very pleafing picture. An ionic portico [2](of which no more is feen than the capitals, and theentablature, with the frieze, ornamented with dolphins, tri-tons, and fome other fea monfters^ fupports a wooden building,,partly clofe and partly open. This latter part may be design-ed for a gallery [3] : the capital moft refembles the corinthian\the entablature, front, and roof, are fomewhat rambling andwhimfical. On one fide there is a fragment in the fame tafte,confirming of two wooden pilafters, which are united below; andthe outermost of them fuppcrts an amphora. On the otherfide appears another building, and a very long column, uponwhich a vafe is fet for ornament. From all this we may con-jecture, that the painter defigned here to reprefent a dining-room ; or elfe a tower, with a building of that fort [4], overthe hall of a country houfe : the trees, which are made by thepainter to extend their branches into the infide o
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