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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e. xxviii. pi. clxxxi. See Agojl.part i. tab. 22. where under the head of a Faun, befides the Fijlula, there is ano-ther inftrument like this, which that learned antiquary thinks to be the Tympanum,,with little plates of metal fattened to its circumference.. may 72 P L A T E XV. may belong either to the Bacchant, or to the Faun. Great was the fondnefs of the ancients for fuch immodeft fubjects (14); and the moft obfcene are to be met with, particularly upon gems. D (t4) We (hallfpeak at large in the notes on the following plate, of the ufe of(uch reprefentations. It is fufficient to remark here what Pliny xxxv. 10. fays ofParrhaftus, Pinxit et minoribus tabellis Libidines: eo genere petulantis joci fe reficiens: and in book xxxiii. ch. i. he had faid: Auxere et vitiorum irrita- menta: in poculis libidines caelare juvit. To this fort of pi&ures called Libi-dinesy on account of the immodeft reprefentations which they contain, may be re-duced thefe and fome others which follow. PLATE
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( 73 3 PLATE XVI. CO THIS piece (2) is equal to the preceding in excellence ofcolouring, and in manner: both indeed feem to bethe work of the fame hand. The perfpicuity of the artiftsdefign, and the limplicity of his compolition, correfpond wellwith the perfection of the art. The fubjecl: of the piece isa naked and bearded Faun (3) attempting (4) to kifs a fji) Catalogue, n. 237. (2) Found with the foregoing at Refina. (3) We meet with many fuch Fauns and Satyrs with long beards on antiques,and they ought properly to be called Sileni. See Montfaucon, torn. i. par. ii. lib. i.ch. xxiii. and xxiv. £4) Eufebius, in Praep. Evang. lib. iii. c. xi. writes, that under the figures ofSatyrs, and fuch kinds of beings, was meant to be expreffed the violence of fen-fual paffion. Bochart. Hieroz. par.n. lib. vi. c. vii. has mown that the whole tribeof Pans, Fauns, Satyrs, Dufians, Sylvans, and other deities of goat-like form arevery luftful, or at leafl: are feigned to be violently inclined to th

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