GRO 
bability. A tafte and ftyle of ornament which has been 
employed to decorate so gore. furniture, &e. eve 
fin 
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throughout Italy, which were adorned by it in the times 
of the ancient Romans. ence the name is derived, the 
Italians calling all fuch places gross 
Its origin is difcernible in the 
writing, where the heads and limbs o 
attached to blocks of ftone, to vafes, or | foliage, &c. 
thereby chara¢terizing the nbeprsaer and the powers of the 
Deity, or — whofe hiitory they record, or whofe pecy- 
lia ns they are asain to preferve in the remem- 
brance ms future ages. 
With the Egyptians it remained rude and unpolifhed ; 
but when the Greeks adopted it, they made an ornamental 
ufe of it, and it became a medium to exhibit their ‘general { 
knowledge of nature. The tafte with which they united 
in one form, not only parts of various animals, but objects 
fo totally diverfe in their nature and appearance, as the pro- 
duétions the animal and vegetable penne? is in the 
higheft degree delightful to contemplate. The formation 
of chimerical aan as the dragon, the {phinx, the griffin, 
&c. owe t te ; which received much of 
yptian hieroglyphic 
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to any great sy sa a better 
talte having in great meafure ft 
Thofe who with to make themfelves seainunad with it, 
will find the beft exemplars on ancient Greck farcophagi, ¢ 
altars, vafes, iezes, &c. of which Piranefi and Rocche- 
giani hav given an ample ftore to the public in their valuable 
works, Mr, C. H. Tatham has given likewife a tafteful 
and judiclous ferlen ofegen tee is kind, in his collection 
of ~ of es architecture from the antique at 
Roy’s, Le Pétre’s, and many other works eS 
the lik like kind, may alfo be confulted with advanta 
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GRO 
Italians, who gave thefe ornaments the name of grotte, and 
ern term grotefque, and the Englifh term 
ave. 
This beautiful ftyle yle of ornament was employed py Raphael 
and others in the decorations of the .ogias, of the Vatican, 
the villas of Madama, Pampli, Caprarola, the old palace at. 
Florence, and indeed in the molt elegant finifhings of modern. 
Italy ; and ee is little doubt but the remains were mud 
more ample in the time of Raphacl and ee who firlt. 
introduced them, hich are now to be found 
GROTIUS, Hueco, in Biagraphy, was born at Delft, 
April roth, 1583. His father, John de Groot, was a 
learned and re{pectahle citizen of Delft, of which he was. 
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the great Scaliger, ftruck with the abilities of Hugo, cqn- 
defcended to direét his ftudies. His reputation was quickly 
eltablithed, and he is mentioned, at this early period, 
the pAutitak {cholars of the age, as a prodigy of icaraiige 
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ook the see of dofor 
“and ier | his refidence there he 
received many attentions from men of the firft eminence for 
rank and learning. 
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prove the continued freedom and independence of ene 
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