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Her garments denote the night, the rftoft proper to fee the
ftars in ; her eyes and thoughts always elevated, and intent upon,
celeftial bodies; the aftrolabe meafures the diffance of them;
the table fhews the difference of it from aftrology.
ATTITUDE, of Jttitudo, Italian, q. of Jptitudo, L. is, in,
painting and fculpture, the pofture of a figure or ftatue, or the
difpofition of its parts, by which we difcover the action it is
engaged in, and the very fentiment, fuppofed to be in the mind.
See ACTION, FIGURE, STATUE.
The reprefenting thefe in a ftrong and lively manner makes
what is called a good expreffion. See EXPRESSION.
AVARICE, is represented, in painting, by an old woman,
pale-faced, lean and melancholy, afflicted with a pain, which
makes her lay one hand upon her belly ; yet feems to devour
a purfe with her eyes, which fhe grafps in the other, accom-
panied with an hunger-ftarved wolf.—Her palenefs proceeds
from her envy, that torments her to fee her neighbours richer
than herfelf; her eyes are fixed on her purfe, it being her chief
delight; the wolf denotes the voracious appetite of the covetous,
who would have other men's goods by hook or by crook.
AUGURY. Good Augury is reprefented, in painting, by
a young man, cloathed all in green, having a (far over his
head, hugging a fwan.—The green cloathing is a token of
hope, and confequently of good luck, becaufe greennefs pro-
mifes a plentiful crop; the ftar denotes good fuccefs, and a per-
fon not to be, as we fay, born under a three-penny planet;
the whitenefs of the fwan is alfo an emblem of fortunatenefs,
as a black crow is of bad luck.
AUGUST, is reprefented by a young man, of fierce coun-
tenance, clad in a robe of flame colour; crowned with a gar-
land of wheat ears; having on his arm a bafket of fummer fruits,
at his belt a fickle bearing a virgin.
AURORA, i. e. the morning, is perfonated by poets and
painters. Homer defcribes her like a young virgin, having her
hair diflievelled, and hanging loofe about her moulders ; being
of the colour of the pureft gold, fitting in a golden chair, with
ail her veftments of that hue and colour.
Virgil defcribes her, as coming, at the very inftant of fable
night's departure, with one of her hands full of rofes, gilly-
flowers, and lilies, taken out of a bafket, which fhe carries in
her other hand, befprinkling them on the marble pavement of
the lower heaven, adorning the fun with unfpeakable beauty.
She is alfo reprefented as a young virgin, with carnation
wings, and a yellow mantle ; in her forehead a ftar, and golden
fun-beams from the crown of her head, riding upon Pegafus;
with
Her garments denote the night, the rftoft proper to fee the
ftars in ; her eyes and thoughts always elevated, and intent upon,
celeftial bodies; the aftrolabe meafures the diffance of them;
the table fhews the difference of it from aftrology.
ATTITUDE, of Jttitudo, Italian, q. of Jptitudo, L. is, in,
painting and fculpture, the pofture of a figure or ftatue, or the
difpofition of its parts, by which we difcover the action it is
engaged in, and the very fentiment, fuppofed to be in the mind.
See ACTION, FIGURE, STATUE.
The reprefenting thefe in a ftrong and lively manner makes
what is called a good expreffion. See EXPRESSION.
AVARICE, is represented, in painting, by an old woman,
pale-faced, lean and melancholy, afflicted with a pain, which
makes her lay one hand upon her belly ; yet feems to devour
a purfe with her eyes, which fhe grafps in the other, accom-
panied with an hunger-ftarved wolf.—Her palenefs proceeds
from her envy, that torments her to fee her neighbours richer
than herfelf; her eyes are fixed on her purfe, it being her chief
delight; the wolf denotes the voracious appetite of the covetous,
who would have other men's goods by hook or by crook.
AUGURY. Good Augury is reprefented, in painting, by
a young man, cloathed all in green, having a (far over his
head, hugging a fwan.—The green cloathing is a token of
hope, and confequently of good luck, becaufe greennefs pro-
mifes a plentiful crop; the ftar denotes good fuccefs, and a per-
fon not to be, as we fay, born under a three-penny planet;
the whitenefs of the fwan is alfo an emblem of fortunatenefs,
as a black crow is of bad luck.
AUGUST, is reprefented by a young man, of fierce coun-
tenance, clad in a robe of flame colour; crowned with a gar-
land of wheat ears; having on his arm a bafket of fummer fruits,
at his belt a fickle bearing a virgin.
AURORA, i. e. the morning, is perfonated by poets and
painters. Homer defcribes her like a young virgin, having her
hair diflievelled, and hanging loofe about her moulders ; being
of the colour of the pureft gold, fitting in a golden chair, with
ail her veftments of that hue and colour.
Virgil defcribes her, as coming, at the very inftant of fable
night's departure, with one of her hands full of rofes, gilly-
flowers, and lilies, taken out of a bafket, which fhe carries in
her other hand, befprinkling them on the marble pavement of
the lower heaven, adorning the fun with unfpeakable beauty.
She is alfo reprefented as a young virgin, with carnation
wings, and a yellow mantle ; in her forehead a ftar, and golden
fun-beams from the crown of her head, riding upon Pegafus;
with