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that of heroic and imperial figures. Whenit 
was repaired, the artift gave it the character 
of Mars, by placing upon it an antique head: 
with a helmet, and putting a fword in the 
right hand. Onthe block, upon which the 
flatue leans, we read the following in{crip- 
tion : 
HP... . TAH (‘Hpazdeidus) 
AFASIOY EOEZIOS. — 
KAI APMATIOS 
EIIOIOYN. 
‘Fhis infcription, which is a little effaced, 
but not, however, fo as to make it quite ille- 
gible, remained quite unobferved till now.’ 
Agafias, the father ofsHeraclides, one of the 
two {culptors who formed this ftatue, is per- 
haps the fame who made the flatue known 
by the name of the Fighting Gladiator, 
No. 85. Two Roman portrait- -bufts, froma 
tomb of the age of Alexander Sewerusy as ap- 
pears from the head-drefs of the woman. 
They are commonly, but improperly, called 
Cato and Percia. ‘Thefe bufts were formerly 
in the Villa Mattei. Clement XIV. purchafed 
them for the Vatican Mufeum. 
No. 86. Lucius Caninius, a ftanding ftatue, 
ef Parian marble, with the toga. From the 
Latin abbreviated infcription on the pedeftal 
(L. CANIO. AFRICE. PROCVRI. Hil.) we’ 
fearn that this Lucius Caninius was Procura- . 
This ftatue was formerly at 
Fontainebleau: the hands are modern; the 
head is antique, but joined to the body. The 
fathion of the beard, the form of the letters, 
and the incorre€ Akeis of the infcription feem 
to point out this antique as the production of 
the age of the Antonines. 
No. 87. Buf cf. Marcus Funus Brutus, of 
Pentelican marble 3 was brought from the 
Miufeum Capitolinum, and muft not be con- 
tor of Africa. 
founded with that of bronze from the Palace _fai/les. 
of the Confervators. 
No. 88. Urania; afmall fitting ftatue, of 
Parian marble, and of very neat workmanfhip, 
found in the year 1774 near Tivoli, in -the 
place called La Pianella di Caffio, and where 
the Villa of Caffius formerly ftood. As the 
Ratue, when difcovered, had neither head nor 
arms; it was fo repaired as to reprefent Ura- 
nia, this Mufe being one of the two which 
were not found in the excavations at that 
place. From the thick foles of her fhoes, we 
‘might rather fuppofe, that it was a ftatue of 
Mielpomene. The head, added by the mo-° 
dern artift, is likewife an antique one, of Pen- 
telican marble, and belonged to fome other 
ftatue of one of the Mufes: on the forehead 
it has two firen-feathers. 
“No. 89. Lucius Funius Brutus, the elder. A 
-bronze buft, from the Capitol. 
No. 90. A Roman in the chara€ter of a fa- 
crificer, with his head covered. This ftatue 
was formerly in the Palace Giuftiniani in Ve- 
nice. An Englifhman purchafed it there, and 
took it to Reme to have it repaired. Clement 
XIV. boughtit from him for the Mufeum in 
the Vatican. The head, fixed on by the mo- 
Gallery of Antiques in he Bird Mufeum. 
beft ftate of prefervation. 
\ 
‘(July 5 
dern artift who repaired the flatue, is an- 
tique: the hands are of modern workman-- 
fhip. 
No. gi. Augufius. This ftatue.had former- 
ly been likewife at Venice, where (as now in 
the Mufeum) it ferved as a companion to the 
former. It is of Pentelican marble, and was 
found near Velletri, the native place of) soy 
guftus. 
No. 92. 4 Prieftefs ee Wa. (carrying bt 
veflel which holds the hely water, and which’ : 
is covered with her veil. This flatue, of 
Parian marble, was found inthe Villa @ Efte, 
at Tivoli, and removed to the Mufeum Capi- 
tolinum by Benedié&t XIV. The antique head 
has been joined on again by a modern artift. 
No. 93. 4 Roman Matron, in the ‘coftume 
of the Goddefs Pudicitia. The head is a por- 
trait 5 and, from the fafhion of the head-drefs, - 
the ftatue feems to belong to the end of the 
fecond century. This ftatue, of Grecian 
matble, was found, about the middle of the 
eighteenth century, at Bengazi, in the Gulph 
of Sydra, tothe eaft of Tripoli, and carried to 
France, where it was. placed in the Gallery 
of Verfailles. Of the antiques with which 
we are acquainted, this is one of thofe in the 
The crapery jis 
executed with great tafte and neatnefs. 
No. 94. The ftatue ufually called The Dy 
ing Gladiator, formerly in the Villa Ludovifi, 
aad removed to the Capitol in the pontificate 
of Clement XII. 
No.95. A Roman Matron, of whom Girar- 
don, the artift who reftored the ftatue, made 
a Vefial Virgin, by adding a modern head, and 
by placing an altar at her fide. This flatue, 
of Parian marble, ftood formerly in the Gal- 
lery of Verfailles, and is, as likewife moft of 
the preceding, depi€turedin the Statues de Ver- 
No. 96. MMelpomene.. The drapery of this 
fiatue, ee Parian marble, is remarkable -on 
account of the double tunic, a long one, and 
a fhort one without fleeves. The hands are 
thodern 5 and fhe is reprefented holding the 
mafk and the rofl. 
No. 97. ntinous, of the Capitoline Mu- 
feum; formerly in the colle€tion of Catdinal 
Wi andes Albani. 
Salle de Laocoon*.—Four pillars (indicated 
in the Plan by [1]) of verde antics, or green 
antique marble, which the ancient’ obtained 
from the neighbourhood of Theffalonica, 
adorn this hall. Thefe pillars were taken - 
from the maufoleum of Anne de Montmo- - 
rency, Conftable of France, in the church of 
Montmorency. Each of them is three metres 
and a half in height, and forty-three cen- 
timétres in diameter. 
No. roo. Fafon, in the moment, when, in 
going to Pelias’ feat, he has waded through 
the Anauros, and puts his fandal on his 
right foot:—full of wonder, he turns his 
head afide to look at Juno, whom he had care, 
* Hall of Laocoon, . 
ried, 
