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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tween the triglyphs, were called metopae; on thefethey ufually carved the heads of oxen or rams, as may be feen in the ancient edi-fices. Vitruv. iv. 2. and 3, writes thus : lta divifiones tignorum tedtae trigly- phorum difpofitione, intertignium, et opam habere in Doricis operibus coeperunt — utraque enim et inter denticulos, et inter triglyphos quae funt intervalla, metopae nominantur: opas enim Graeci tignorum cubilia, et afTerum appellant,* uti noftra cava, columbaria. Ita quod inter duas opas eft intertignium, id** metopa eft apud eos nominatum. And in the front of a temple, with four a>Iumns, there were eight triglyphs, or opae, and feven metopae. The Painter then feems to have defigned by the eight ovals, to reprefent the ex*tremities of the beams, covered with little figures inftead of triglyphs; and bythe feven rams heads the intcrtignia, or metopae. Whofoever fhould undertake togive an account of the little figures, would certainly undertake a very difficult talk. PLATE
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( *9 ) PLATE VII. CO f a A HIS pi&ure, every part of which is wonderfully beau-JL tiful, reprefents the firft labour (2) of Hercules (3) ;who, when he was juft born (as a certain author, with littleprobability however, pretends (4)), or whilft he was yet an in-fant (5), as he is here defcribed, ftrangled the two ferpents (6) (1) Catalogue, n. 119. (2I Philojlratus the younger, in Imag. v. which is called UpoiKXys & uvrupywoic,Hercules in /waddling cloaths, fays, koh yshtxg rfa tov xQkov, and Ovid. Met. ix. 67. Cunarum labor eft angues fuperare mearum. It was then the firft labour of Hercules, but none of the twelve enjoined him byEurijlheus. (3) Amphitryon, being engaged in the war againft the Teleboans, was abfentfrom Thebes, where his wife Alcmena remained. Jupiter alfumed his likenefs, andlay with her one night only ; but he lengthened the night in fuch a manner, thatit was as long as two or three, or even nine nights, according to various traditions.Amphitryon returning fo

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