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Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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.a, hecaufcwine elevates men and makes their fpirits light, no lefs than wings do birds.See He/jchius, in 4ihexxoi. One of thefe figures finifhes in the manner of a Termi-nus ; the other in a foliage; thus fupplying, as it were, the place of a Caryatidesand a Tchimon. It is fufficient here only to have mentioned them ; as we (hall beobliged to give an account of the greater part of thefe fymbols, in illuftratingother paintings where we fhall meet with them.TiS) Catalogue, n. 216. fiyj This little piece has no relation to the two borders, nor to Dido ; as fhe hasno relation to them, the three being found in different places: and let us repeat itonce more for all, that where we do not remark the contrary, it is always to beimderftood, that the little pieces which are put together in the fame plate, havenothing to do with the principal one. PLATE
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C .63 ) PLATE XIV.IO EVERY thing that occurs in this piece (2) fhows it to bethe representation of a family (3) meal (4), and thewhole deferves to be viewed with attention : the couch (5) co-vered with a white quilt (6): the garment (7) of the youthwho reclines upon it, together with his attitude^ fupportinghimfelf half reclined upon his left elbow (8) ; and the veffel in £1) Catalogue, it. 213. (2) Found in the fouterrains of Refina. (3) We meet with domeftic fuppers of this kind in a variety of antiquities exhi-bited by Montfaucon, torn. iii. part i. book iii. ch.yn. plate lvii. lviii. £4)) On the various forts of meals confult Bulenger, Ciacconius, Stuckius, andothers. Not only among the Egyptians, the Indians, and Lacedaemonians, (feeHerodotus, Mela, Strabo, Plutarch); but alfo among the Romans, it was decreedby law, that people fhould eat their meals with their doors open. But this cuftomcame afterwards into difufe. See Macrobius, fat. iii. 17. and Valerius Maximus, ii. 1. (5)

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