# Essays towards the history of painting

Author: Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75528

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## Summary

The square body of the building, the four pyramids at the corners, and that in the centre, will remind the traveller of the modest monument, miscalled that of the Horatii and Curiatii, on the road between Laricia and Rome. To me it seems to have some resemblance with that raised by Simon Maccabeus to his family, about three centuries after Porsenna’s time, 1 Macc. xiii., v. 27, 28, 29, 30.

## Chapters

- [chapter 21, after speaking of some other tragic poets, he says, “with](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essays-towards-the-history-of-painting-75528/chapters/2/index.md)
- [c. 13, on the authority of Varro, says, was under that incomprehensible](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essays-towards-the-history-of-painting-75528/chapters/1/index.md)