Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. PAL. GIUSTINIANI. There are two pillars, the capitals whereof are bafkets, witheagles at top. Thefe bafkets muft cerfain!y be an ailufior towhat isfaid to be the original of the Corinthian capital, w chis very well known. In the publick Piazza near this palace is a fountain withgood figures in brafs, by Carlo Siciliano. The Palazzo Giuftiniani is another of the palaces of greatrank: it has a world of pictures; and for number of ftatuesand baffo-relievos does at leaft equal any in Ro
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. PAL. GIUSTINIANI. There are two pillars, the capitals whereof are bafkets, witheagles at top. Thefe bafkets muft cerfain!y be an ailufior towhat isfaid to be the original of the Corinthian capital, w chis very well known. In the publick Piazza near this palace is a fountain withgood figures in brafs, by Carlo Siciliano. The Palazzo Giuftiniani is another of the palaces of greatrank: it has a world of pictures; and for number of ftatuesand baffo-relievos does at leaft equal any in Rome. The keeper of the Barberine library lhewd us two largevolumes of prints after them ; which to me feemdbut mode-rately performd. There are feveral of the lame in England. One. gallery is fet round with a double row of are indeed forne indifferent ones among them 5 but othersvery good. A head of Vitellius, good. A buft of Julius Ccefar, with feveral others of the emperors. A figure with a Phrygian mitre : as I remember tis an Har-pocrates. The famous ftatue of Minerva, moft highly valu
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