The antiquities of Herculaneum . rve the nfual feftoon hanging from a little wheel[6]. The back-ground is blue. The height three feet feveninches, and the width three feet three inches. The land/cape^ withdifferent forts of animals [7], is beautiful. The back-groundof it is white, bordered on the top with red. The height isthree inches and a half, the width four feet three inches. [5j Vitruvius, lib. vi. 8. Ruri vero —atria habentia circum porticus pavimenta- tas, fpeclantes ad paleftras, et ambulationcs. See Pliny, lib. v. epifi. vi. Therewere always annexed to magnificent palaces fylvae, amb
The antiquities of Herculaneum . rve the nfual feftoon hanging from a little wheel[6]. The back-ground is blue. The height three feet feveninches, and the width three feet three inches. The land/cape^ withdifferent forts of animals [7], is beautiful. The back-groundof it is white, bordered on the top with red. The height isthree inches and a half, the width four feet three inches. [5j Vitruvius, lib. vi. 8. Ruri vero —atria habentia circum porticus pavimenta- tas, fpeclantes ad paleftras, et ambulationcs. See Pliny, lib. v. epifi. vi. Therewere always annexed to magnificent palaces fylvae, ambulationefque laxiores :*as Vitruvius tells us, vi. 8. See alfo v. 2. and 9. [6[] One has fuppofed that this piclure represents a Scena comka. See Vitruwius3v. S. and the rather, becaufe the painter feems to have attempted through the open-ing of the gallery, to mow the upper portico of the feats of a theatre, which wasadorned with columns; five of which appear in this piece, and are of the ionicorder. M Catalogue, n. 73. PLATE. T. S JLa/n bornfai fp. [ ] PLATE XLIV. pHE firft pi&ure [i] which is engraved in this plate,JL though no lefs extravagant than the foregoing ones, isnot without its beauty. It feems deligned to reprefent a tholus[2], veftibulum [3], or fome fuch building [4] ; and the quad-rangular building in the middle may point out the principalentrance, and the two lateral ones the leiTer doors [5]. Thecolumns, which are, like the reft, of the ionic order, and with-out bafes, fupport the roof, and an entablature, which however [1] Catalogue, n. 139. [2] One thinks it is a fpecies of tholus, Servius, upon Aen. ix. and the wordsfujpendive tholo, obferves: Tholus proprie eft veluti fcutum breve, quod in medio teclo eft in quo trabes coeunt, ad quod dona fufpendi confueverunt—alii iholum aedium facrarum dicunt genus fabricae Veftae, et pantherae. Alii tectum fine pa- rietibus columnis fubnixnm. But although the tholus of Vefta was round, asServius affirms, and Ovid,
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