g6 CHARACTER OF FE*v* ALE STATUES 



Juno Lanuvina, as fhe was worshiped at Lanuvium, 

 with linen drawn over her head, is now ftanding in the 

 Campidoglio. She has bare arms, with a patera in her 

 hand, and is cloathed with wonderful beauty. 



Atalanta, with Hippomenes, appears perhaps but 

 once inconteftably in all "antiquity, and this is the 

 group in the barberini palace. She is ftill running, 

 with the garment fluttering about the waifL Hippo- 

 menes, quite naked, has juft reached her. In Perrier 

 there is a figure under this name, from the palace della 

 Valle, and is called Atalanta for no other reafon than 

 becaufe it can be neither a nymph nor a Diana. A fi- 

 milar one may be feen in Sandrart, taken from the pa- 

 lace Cefi. 



The figures which at prefent are fhewn under the 

 name of Bacchantes, were probably defigned by their 

 firfi: artifts for different denominations. It is an object 

 which the antients were uncommonly fond of, as it 

 gave a large fcope to their art in exhibiting a number 

 of fine and various attitudes. A flowing garb, di- 

 fhevelled hair, the thyrfus, grapes in the hand or in 

 the lap, and a dancing attitude, are their ufual infignia* 

 They appear but rarely as fiatues ; much more fre- 

 quently in reliefs and gems. The reprefentations on a 

 farcophagus or an altar are fcarcely ever any thing elfe 

 than the hiflory of Bacchus. They are commonly 

 llightly cloathed, the arms bare, and the xvhole con- 

 tour of the body is faintly feen through the drapery ; 

 >they fometimes hold up the garment with one hand, as 

 may be feen in Perrier. Thefe figures are feldom in 

 long robes, like the bacchant in litpitolio, which is 

 drefl in the baffara, or the training habit, from which 

 2 Bacchus 



