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No. 61. 4 Bacchante. One of the hands ts 
modern: and ?the artift who fupplied it, 
placed it in a vafe full of grapes. ( 
No. 62. The Genius of Eternal Ref, with 
one leg over the other, as he is reprefented on 
farcophagi. 
II, Salle des Hommes Illuftres*.—Here is the 
temporary entrance into the Gallery, until 
the principal entrance can be opened. On 
the left of the door ftands a table, x, where 
the priated Defcription of the Gallery is 
fold; onthe right, another table, where the 
walking-fticks, umbrellas, and {words of the 
vifitors are depofited. 
Eight antique pillars of grey granite (com- 
monly called granatillo)'ornament this hall. 
They ftand upon an elevation, which is feve- 
ralfeet high. 4m the plan, thefe elevations, 
fome of which are breaft high, are indicated 
by ftraight parallel-lines. The main wall, 
on the contrary, is marked by crofs-lines. 
Thefe pillars came from Ajx-la-Chapelle, 
where they adorned the place in the nave of 
the church where the tomb of Charlemagne 
ftood. 
No. 70. A Greek Philofopher, known by 
the name of Zeno. This ftanding ftatue, of 
Grecian marble (Grechetto), was found with 
the Faun, No. 50. at Lanuvium, in the year 
¥701. Benedié&t X{V. purchafed it, and 
placed it in the Muf. Capitolinum. Theright 
arm and the feet are modern, 
No. 71. Demofthenes; a fitting ftatue, 
which was formerly in the Villa Montalto or 
Negroni,.on the Efquilinian Hill. Pius VI. 
had it removed to the Mufeum Pio-Clemen- 
tinum, 
No. 72. Trajan, in the habit of a philofo- 
pher, with a glube in his right hand. The 
head is antique, but having been broken off, 
is again joined to the trunk; the hands are 
of modern workmanthip. This fitting fatue 
was formerly in the Villa Mattei, on Mons 
Celius. Clement XIV. caufed it to be re- 
moved to the Mufeum Pio-Ciementinum. 
No. 73. Sextus ef Cherenea, preceptor of 
Marcus Aurelius, and uncle of Plutarch. 
‘The antique head has been joined on again. 
This ftatue, in a fitting pofture, is of Grecian 
marble. 
No. 74. 4 Warrior, called Phocion;, accord- 
ing to others, U/p/és, going out with Dio- 
mede to-reconnoitre the Trojan camp. This 
ftatue, of Pentelican marble, was found about 
the middle of the: laf century, in the founda- 
tions of the Gentili-palace, at the foot of the 
Quirinal Mount, where formerly ftood a 
Temple of Archemorus. Pius VJ. had it 
remoyed to the Mufeum Pio-Clementinum. 
The feet are modern. , .-. 
No. 75. Menander. No. 76. Pofidippus. 
Both thefe fitting flatues, of Peatelican mar- 
ble, were found in the fixteenth century at 
Rome, on Mount Viminalis, in the garden of 
the Monattery of St. Laurence ia Panifperna. 
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* Hall of [luftrious Men, 
2 
Gailery of Antiques in the Paris Mufeum. 
497 
Sixtus V. placed them in the Villa Montalto 
or Negroni, whence Pius VI. had them re- 
moved to the Mufeum Pio-Clementinum., 
No. 77. Minerva, a ftanding ftatue, of 
Pentelican marble, which was formerly in the 
Salle des Antiques in the Louvre. The head 
and arms are modern. She is cloathed. in 
the double chlamys or diplax, whichis faften- 
ed on the right fhoulder: on her brea the 
bears the zgis with ferpents, and the head of 
Medufa. 
Tit. Salle des Romains*.—The cieling, 
painted by Romanelli, reprefents the Rape of 
the Sabine Women, Mutius Scevola, and 
other fubje&ts, taken from the Hiftory of the 
Romans. ‘They have,.therefore, here placed 
together fuch works of art as have a relation 
to the hiftory and antiquities of that people. 
No. $0. Roman Orator, known by the name 
of Germanicus, but for whom this ftatue is too 
old. The pofition of the right arm, the 
chlamys thrown back on the left, which, it 
is probable, was formerly kept back by the 
caduceus in the left hand, the tortoife, in 
fine, which was dedicated to Mercury as the 
inventor of the lyre, authorife us to conjec- 
ture, that a Roman orator was here repre~ 
fented under the figure of the God of Elo- 
guence. The following defcription, of which 
no quite correét copy had before been pub-= 
lifhed, is engraven on the tortoife in beauti- 
ful Greek characters : 
KAEOMENHE 
- KAEOMENOTE 
AQHNAIOZ 
EOE 
This ftatue, of Pentelican marble, comes from 
Verfailles, whither it had been brought in the 
reign of Louis X1V. Before that period, it 
had been at Rome, in the Villa Montalto or 
Villa Negroni, formerly the gardeas of Six- 
tus V. 
No. 83. A beautiful bronze head of Pub- 
Tius Cornelius Scipio the elder. This rare an- 
tiqgue was brought from the palace at Ver- 
failles, where it had been placed by order of 
Louis XV. to whom it was prefented in the 
year 1735, by the Abbé Fauvel, a great ama- 
teur of antiques. This we learn from an in- 
{criptionon the back part of the neck. The 
white of the eye is formed by an incruftation 
of filver.—(This number was yet wanting 
when the hall was opened). 
No. 82. A ftatue of Parian marble, com- 
monly called a Ceres, but more probably’a 
Clio, who holds a roll, but to whom the artift 
who repaired the ftatue gave a bundle of 
corn-ears. Clement XIV. caufed it to be 
brought from the Villa Mattei to the Va- 
tican. 
No. 83. Cicero, 
No. 84.-A ftatue'cf Afars. This ftatue, of 
Pentelican marble, is in a ftanding pofture, 
and naked as far as the middle, the lower 
parts being covered witha drapery fimilar to 
# Hail of the Romans. 
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