Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . are of fcveral forts. The pillars in the nave are Ionic, granite,lar^e and fine. In the upper part, beyond the great altar, whichis after the Greek falhion ifolata, [i. e. detachd from any wall]are Corinthian pillars of a white marble, which they call pa-vonata, from fome fpots in it like thofe in peacocks feathers:the capitals of thefe are admirably wrought. There is in this old Sarcophagus with fome fine baf-fo relievos reprefenting the ceremonies of an ancient wedding. Itis n
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . are of fcveral forts. The pillars in the nave are Ionic, granite,lar^e and fine. In the upper part, beyond the great altar, whichis after the Greek falhion ifolata, [i. e. detachd from any wall]are Corinthian pillars of a white marble, which they call pa-vonata, from fome fpots in it like thofe in peacocks feathers:the capitals of thefe are admirably wrought. There is in this old Sarcophagus with fome fine baf-fo relievos reprefenting the ceremonies of an ancient wedding. Itis not in that circumitance of time as the Aldobrandine, whichI £hall .(peak of hereafter. In this they are joining bands, withJuno Pronuba between them, who lays her hands on theirfhoulders as putting them together. This is engravd by Bar-toli, and is to be feen in the Admiranda, page 58; to which Irefer the reader for the front-part. There are bafib relievostoo at each end, which he has not engravd. At one end are threeminifirce [attendants;] one has fomewhat in her hand, whichfignior Ficaroni called a
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