The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . s agonized with pain on the declivity of the hill,with a vulture gnawing his entrails. Under the hill are theDanaides, endeavouring in vain to fill a broken dolium withwater. I have thus endeavoured to give a slight description of thesepaintings, which, from the beauty of their colouring, the varietyof their composition, their illustrative character of Homericincident, and from their exhibiting specimens of Augustan art,no less than from the rarity of such paintings, must be con-sidered as amongst the most interest
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . s agonized with pain on the declivity of the hill,with a vulture gnawing his entrails. Under the hill are theDanaides, endeavouring in vain to fill a broken dolium withwater. I have thus endeavoured to give a slight description of thesepaintings, which, from the beauty of their colouring, the varietyof their composition, their illustrative character of Homericincident, and from their exhibiting specimens of Augustan art,no less than from the rarity of such paintings, must be con-sidered as amongst the most interesting and valuable discoveries in recent times. Benjamin Gibson. Rome, 14th November, 1849. F L A n O FDISCOVERIES BY CAPT: CAVICLIA BEHIND AND IN THE NEICHOURHOOD OF B B /la/Zs of unhurtii /i-irh . C C L//if ^aiioii />// Vi/it. Cuiif/hu. D D Jiiiif I// ////ir/i //?ti// /s hi/ifr. E E flr/L-or des:ndi>i(^ fixni Hiree u/i/i^r chambers to Hve /oieer chamhers. Jlnirytnce to a st/ui/l roo/n, t/ie facade of i/ditch /.V covered irifh h/ero(/Ii//)
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