Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . their rarity. There is a feiies of the Roman emperors from Julius, downto Gallienus, all except about fix ; and the empreffes of manyof them fronting them : where thefe are wanting, the place isfupplied with other figures. Among the emperors, are placdMarcus Agrippa, fon-in-law to Auguftus; and Antinous, thefavourite of Hadrian. Belides thefe, there are philofophers,heroes, confuls, mufes, deities, and other figures interfperfed,as Leda with the Swan, Cupid and Pfyche, very beautiful;ther
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . their rarity. There is a feiies of the Roman emperors from Julius, downto Gallienus, all except about fix ; and the empreffes of manyof them fronting them : where thefe are wanting, the place isfupplied with other figures. Among the emperors, are placdMarcus Agrippa, fon-in-law to Auguftus; and Antinous, thefavourite of Hadrian. Belides thefe, there are philofophers,heroes, confuls, mufes, deities, and other figures interfperfed,as Leda with the Swan, Cupid and Pfyche, very beautiful;there are ftatues of Paris and of the three goddeffes, which thodone by different hands, and at different times [the Juno is byMich. Angelo, reft antique,] are fo well chofen anddifpofed, that they anfwer to one another as tho they had beenoriginally intended to accompany each other as they do. Parisregards not Juno nor Pallas, one ftanding towards his righthand, and the other juft before him; but turns directly to Venus,who is at a further diftance towards his left; he reaches out the apple.
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