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Next to this is a broken Piece, reprefenting 
the Judgment of Baris. The Figures are about the 
fame Size as that laft above-mention d. They are 
not intire 5 the bottom Part being broken off about 
the Knees. This is aifo a very fine Picture ,• but it 
is impofilble to judge of all its Beauties, as it is 
extremely changed and decayed 5 which is quite con- 
trary to all the others, but, in particular, to that of 
Chiron and Achilles > which is in a manner as frefh 
as if it had been painted but Yefterday. 
4. The next is a fine Pidure of the Story of 
Virginia . The Figures are fomething bigger than 
thofe in the abovementioned. The Charaders and 
Exprefiions of the Heads are admirable. That of 
Appius gives a juft Idea of the furious Tranfports in 
which the Artift defigned to defcribe him. Vir- 
ginia is weeping 5 and, in a word, all the Figures 
are finely difpofed, and the Charaders well adapted 
to the Subjed. 
y. Two large Pictures were in a Nich in a Bafi- 
lica y about five or fix Feet high. The firft repre- 
fents Thefeus vidorious over the Minotaur . He is 
ftanding in a free and fine Pofture : One Foot is on 
the Head of the Minotaur . But what feemed odd 
to me, was the Figure of that Monfter itfelf, which. 
1 had always feen differently reprefented; for, in. 
this Pidure, the Head only represents that of a Bui],: 
which is joined to the Body of a Man. Several 
little Genii y or Cupids (as we call them), all feem 
impatient to fhcw their Refped to their Deliverer : 
One kiffes his Hand, another clafps round his Leg,, 
and feveral others are in different Attitudes of Gra- 
titude. 
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