THE HANGINU TOWKtl or ViSA. 595* 
^^Gionizes with the surrounding objects, but its reel 
jif ^ducle is best shewn by comparison with the groupes 
about the water, and wdiicli, in comparison,^ 
|i|, ® Certain distance, resemble pigmies. A nearer ap- 
^ch exhibits a truly striking prciportion of the limbs. 
inP number of apartments have been fabricated in the 
’^*01', and within the head is a beautiful belviilere, 
(j^crein the eye-balls serve for windows. ^ The exh-emi- 
1^* are of stone ; the trunk is of bricks overlaid with a 
itu’^Jar or cement that has contracted the hardness of 
and which, when fresh, it was easy to model in 
jforms. 
Ilf related in the life of John of llologna, that several 
O pupils, unaccustomed to tvork with hand, while 
jjj work, forgot the cori'ect standard of di- 
^ *®tons, both as to the eye and hand, and that Father 
W ^*^ine and his enormous muscles made them spoil a 
■j.j^cr of statues. 
greatest difficulty in the workmanship w'as to iin- 
on the mass, the character of monumental durability, 
hj, '’'j’tist has succeeded in uniting the rules of the statu- 
if those of construction, in combining the beauty 
^ solidity of the other. All the parts 
to a common centre of gravity, and the members 
^itjj®*'*'Anged so as to serve for a scaffolding to the body, 
'j,|°ot impairing its dignity or magnitude. 
\ •) *^o^o 3 =al statues of the ancients may have suggested 
li-tj-j of this configuration, or, as before hinted, the 
')o\y have aimed to represent the Jupiter Pluvius. 
it seems probable that Poussin, in his painting 
Plains of Sicily, has, from this, formed his Poly- 
^U^**®* seated on the summit of a lofty rock. From the 
its proportions, and skill in the e.xecution, all 
have to work on colossal figures, ought to 
% pre.servation of this, as an imposing object, 
®*bUot be too profoundly studied. 
Hanging 
TOWEIt OF PISA, IN TUSCANS'. 
''-‘^ubrated tower, likewise called Campavh.k, ou 
heen erected for the jiurpose of con 
% h bells, stnmls in a square close 
‘ built entirely of wdiite marbl 
s, stnmls in a square close to the cathedral of 
n.l is a beautiful 
