Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. TEMP. OF MINERVA. gates is a fine old, bafio-relievo of a man grappling with a lion,probably an ornament of the ancient temple. There is in the gallery of the prince Giuftiniani, a ftatue ofMinerva, which they aver to be the fame that was worship-ped in this temple. In the Forum Nervse are what Ficaroni called the remains ofanother temple of this goddefs, which was built by confift of two pillars of the Corinthian order, fluted, withtheir entablature; a
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. TEMP. OF MINERVA. gates is a fine old, bafio-relievo of a man grappling with a lion,probably an ornament of the ancient temple. There is in the gallery of the prince Giuftiniani, a ftatue ofMinerva, which they aver to be the fame that was worship-ped in this temple. In the Forum Nervse are what Ficaroni called the remains ofanother temple of this goddefs, which was built by confift of two pillars of the Corinthian order, fluted, withtheir entablature; and the wall they project from. The friezeis all along adornd with figures in mezo-relievo, expreffingPalladis artes, the affair of houfewifery, as fpinning, wea-ving, &c. Some of thefe are much decayd, but others veryfrefh. The prints of all of them, engravd by Pietro Santo Bar-toli, are publifhd in the Admiranda. An old ftatue of Pallasftill remains, Handing over this fine frieze. Near this are what were fhewd to us for the remains of thepalace of the emperor Nerva, from whom the Forum tookits name, three moft n
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