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Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ing whofe form was entirely human mightbe feigned to have been produced: and accordingly it has been concluded, thatthe girl whom our female centaur carries upon her back, is her daughter. Thisopinion has alfo been fuppofed to be confirmed by a picture of Zeuxiss. Lucianfays, that the centaur holds one of her children in her arms, fucking at the humanbread as infants do ; while the other Hands like a foal under her belly at the maresdugs below. And then he adds, of thefe two infants one is favage like its fire, and at that tender age is already terrible. Hence it is concluded, that of thiscentaurs two children painted by Zeuxis, one was entirely human, and the otherpart human and part horfe. But this conjecture meets with powerful objections:and Gronovius has corrected the paffage of Lucian fo as to have this fenfe, both the one and the other infant was, at this tender age, already become fierce and terribleand thus vanifhes all doubt and fufpicion of any difference betweenthem. PLATE
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C 3 3 PLATE XXVII. W f ; ^ HIS centaur, though perhaps he may feem to one whoJL judges from the countenance only, to be reprefentedby the painter rather as an elderly man than a youth, hashowever no beard (2); his hair on the contrary is rough anddifordered (3). By the thyrfus which he carries over his (1) Catalogue, n. 529. 2. (2) Hie centaurs are commonly figured with beards: Nonnus, Dionyf. xiv.264, thus describes a centaur belonging to Bacchus: A centaur with a rough and briftly beard.And Zeuxis painted his centaurs hufband Xatriov to -sroAAa, according to Luciansaccount. But it does not therefore follow, that they are not fometimes alfo repre-fented without beards. The centaur in Plate xxv. is of this kind : and in a corne-lian in Muf. Rom. torn. i. feci. i. /. lii. there is a young centaur without a beard,with a fpear upon his flioulder, and a helmet on his head. That which is herefigured has an old meagre face, but without a beard. This centaur has been takenfor an hermaphrodit

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