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Identifier: herculanumetpomp18703barr (find matches)
Title: Herculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages analogues
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Barré, Louis, 1799-1857 Roux, H. (Henri), Sr Bouchet, Adolphe
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: Paris, Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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la nymphe estcouronnée de laurier, ce qui est encore un indice desa liaison avec Apollon. Dautres explications ont été proposées, les unes in-complètes, les autres trop recherchées : on a vu dans cetableau laventure de Tirésias et celle dActéon, le juge-ment de Paris, les trois Grâces ; on y a découvert enfinles trois Gorgones , dont deux seulement étaient immor-telles (3), et le vieil Atlas, qui, ayant contemplé Méduseau moment où elle dévoile tous ses charmes, est changéen montagne (4). Cette dernière explication sappuie,comme lavant-dernière, sur la ressemblance des troisphysionomies. Nous nous en tenons à celle que nousavons proposée, et qui nous paraît plus simple et plusclaire. PLANCHE 129. Hercule, nayant pour tout vêtement, sur ses mem-bres bronzés par le soleil, que la peau du lion de Némée, (1) Ovid., Met. XIJ, 158; Apoll., p. 214; Pascal., VII, 12.Argon., 1214. (3)Hesiod., Theog., 274. (2)Lycophr., 480; Plut., Coriol., (4) Ovid., Met., IV, 656. i \
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h S ^ \: v §> \ II n V s & Sï <£ i us - ,* DEUXIÈME SÉRIE. 73 et portant un carquois au côté , perce de ses flèchesles oiseaux redoutables du Stymphale. Ces oiseaux sontblancs, particularité remarquable dans notre fresque,car aucune peinture, aucune description navait en-core fait connaître leur couleur. Selon Pausanias, ilsétaient de la taille des grues , mais plus semblables auxibis, quoiquils eussent le bec plus fort et nullementrecourbé (i). En effet, les Stymphalides ont ici le becdroit, comme dans la plupart des monuments ; et Win-kelmann (2) a fort mal compris le sens du passage dePausanias, quand il a prétendu le faire concorder avecles documents opposés à celui-ci. Les médailles, lesautorités (3) et nos propres peintures (4), tout prouveégalement que libis avait le bec recourbé. Du reste,libis des anciens était presque entièrement blanc danstous les pays, les environs de Péluse exceptés (5). Les autres circonstances fabuleuses qui concernentce

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English: PLATE 129.

Hercules, having for no clothing but the skin of the Nemean lion, his limbs bronzed by the sun, and carrying a quiver at his side, pierces with his arrows the formidable birds of the Stymphalus. These birds are white, a remarkable feature in our fresco, because no painting, no description had yet revealed their color. According to Pausanias, they were of the size of cranes, but more like ibises, although they had stronger and not at all curved beaks (1). In fact, the Stymphalides have a straight beak here, as in most monuments; and Winkelmann (2) quite misunderstood the meaning of the passage of Pausanias, when he claimed to make it agree with the documents opposed to it. Medals, authorities (3) and our own paintings (4), all also prove that the ibis had a curved beak. Moreover, the ibis of the ancients was almost entirely white in all countries, except around Pelusium (5). The other fabulous circumstances which concern these birds have not been expressed by the artist: we do not see that their feathers could be used to wound like arrows (6), which caused them to be called the pupils of Mars (7); nor do we see here that Hercules used the sound of bronze to drive them out of their dark retreats (8). We can see the Stymphalian River at some distance, sitting on the edge of the lake, his skin tanned like that of Hercules, his body half enveloped in a bluish drapery, and his head crowned with aquatic plants. He turns his head towards the hero, and seems to ask him for mercy for the inhabitants of his shores.

The vignette first represents a kind of hunt led by two geniuses, one of whom has seized a deer by the feet; then, on one side, a panther, on the other, the female of a fallow or a roe deer.

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