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Italy handbook for travellers [V.2]

(1893-1899)

p. 432

298 IV. Right Bank. ROME. e. The Vatican;
Section I., to the right and left of the entrance: 2, 66. Birds'
nests and children; to the right, *19. Boy in a stooping posture,
as if reaching after scattered nuts or the like (comp. No. 497a,
p. 305) ; 31 (to the right) and 35 (to the left), Candelabra from
Otricoli, the former with a satyr, Silenus, and a Bacchante, the
latter with Apollo, Marsyas, and theScythian; to the left, 45. Headof
a youthful satyr; 52. Sleeping satyr, in green basalt. — Section IL:
to the right, 74. Fountain-figure of Pan, removing a thorn from the
foot of a satyr; 81. Diana of Ephesus, from Hadrian's Villa; to the
right, 83. Sarcophagus, with the murder of ^Egistheus and Clytaem-
nestra by Orestes ; 93 (to the right) and 97 (to the left), Candelabra
from S. Costanza; to the left, 104. Ganymede and the eagle; to the
left, 113. Sarcophagus-relief of Protesilaus and Laodameia; 117,
119. Boys with water-vessels (fountain-figures) ; *118a. Ganymede
carried off by the eagle, copy of a celebrated work by Leochares
(p. xliv). — Section III.: to the right, 131. Mosaics of dead fish,
dates, etc; 134a. Modem copy of the circular rim of a fountain
(puteal; now in Madrid), companion piece to 134c. Antique work
of the same kind, with Bacchanalian scenes; between the last two,
134b. Archaic figure of a god, on a basis hearing a dedieatory in¬
scription to Semo Sancus; 135. Sitting statuette of Sophocles; to
the left, 140. Socrates; to the left, 141, 153. Bacchus with the
panther; 148. Satyr with the infant Bacchus. — Section IV.: 157
(to the right) and 219 (to the left), Candelabra from S. Costanza;
to the right, 168. Draped statue of a Roman matron ; to the right,
173. Sarcophagus with Bacchus finding Ariadne; to the right, 177.
Aged beggar; to the right, *184. Patron Goddess of Antioch, after
Eutychides (p. xlv); 187. Candelabrum, with Hercules stealing the
tripod (Hercules, Apollo, Dionysus); 190. Candelabrum, with
Bacchio dance , a plaster-cast of the originai in Paris; to the left,
194. Boy with a goose ; 204. Sarcophagus, with the children of Niobe ;
208. Marcellus (?), nephew of Augustus; 210. Marble bowl, with
Baachic dances. — Section V.: to the right, *222. Greek Female
Racer, after a bronze of the 5th cent. B. C. ; to the right, 234. Can¬
delabrum, with Minerva, Jupiter, Venus, and Apollo, from Otricoli;
to the left, 240. Negro boy, with implements used in the bath. —
Section VI.: to the right, Sarcophagus, with Diana and Endymion;
257.Ganymede; to the left, 264. One of Niobe's children; 269. Sar¬
cophagus, with the rape of the daughters of Leucippus by the Dio¬
scuri. Upon the last, *269 e. Statue of a fighting Gaul, from the
trophy of King Attalus on the Acropolis at Athens (p. xlv). — The
next gallery contains the Tapestry of Raphael, p. 294.
We now descend and return to the Sala a Croce Greca, and pass
through it (comp. ground-plan, p. 295) to the —
IV. Sala Rotonda, erected under Pius VI. by Simonetti, after
the model of the Pantheon. The floor contains an admirable Mosaic,
found in 1780 in the Therm* at Otricoli, with Nereids, Tritona,

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