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STATUES FROM EASTERN PEDIMENT. 13"
communicating to the distant regions of the earth,
represented by Ceres and Proserpine; the important
intelligence of the birth of Minerva. The head and
arms of this figure are lost. Visconti says the light
and fluttering cloak, which is filled by the wind, and
raised above her shoulders, is one of the usual attributes
of this mythological personage. He adds: See in the
miniatures of the Vatican Virgil the figure of Iris ex-
citing Turnus to war, book ix. of the .Sineid; and in
the bas-reliefs which represent the fall of Phaeton, the
figure.'of which the floating drapery describes a bow
above her head*. The height of this figure in its
present state is 5 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 10 in. in width.
Victory Winged. No. 96.
This figure does not appear in Carrey's drawings,
but the torso, for such only it is now, was found upon
the floor of the pediment. It was in a position which
corresponded with that of Iris on the other side of the
group. The wings, the real characteristic of this
figure, are gone ; they were of gilt bronze : but the
holes, in which they appear to have been fixed, are
yet observable at the back. A piece of metal, the
fragment of some other ornament, still remains above
the left knee. The action of this figure is thus de-
scribed by Visconti: " Victory has seen the birth of
the warrior virgin who. was to be her inseparable com-
panion, and she is starting up in an excess of joyf."
The height of this fragment at present is 3 ft. 10 in.
* Visconti's Memoirs, p. 40. Compare Winkelmaun, Monuni,
jned. No. 45. MarTei, Museum Verouense, p. lxxi.
f Visconti, Memoirs, p. 45.
communicating to the distant regions of the earth,
represented by Ceres and Proserpine; the important
intelligence of the birth of Minerva. The head and
arms of this figure are lost. Visconti says the light
and fluttering cloak, which is filled by the wind, and
raised above her shoulders, is one of the usual attributes
of this mythological personage. He adds: See in the
miniatures of the Vatican Virgil the figure of Iris ex-
citing Turnus to war, book ix. of the .Sineid; and in
the bas-reliefs which represent the fall of Phaeton, the
figure.'of which the floating drapery describes a bow
above her head*. The height of this figure in its
present state is 5 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 10 in. in width.
Victory Winged. No. 96.
This figure does not appear in Carrey's drawings,
but the torso, for such only it is now, was found upon
the floor of the pediment. It was in a position which
corresponded with that of Iris on the other side of the
group. The wings, the real characteristic of this
figure, are gone ; they were of gilt bronze : but the
holes, in which they appear to have been fixed, are
yet observable at the back. A piece of metal, the
fragment of some other ornament, still remains above
the left knee. The action of this figure is thus de-
scribed by Visconti: " Victory has seen the birth of
the warrior virgin who. was to be her inseparable com-
panion, and she is starting up in an excess of joyf."
The height of this fragment at present is 3 ft. 10 in.
* Visconti's Memoirs, p. 40. Compare Winkelmaun, Monuni,
jned. No. 45. MarTei, Museum Verouense, p. lxxi.
f Visconti, Memoirs, p. 45.