{
  "status": "DRAFT - owner review required before publication",
  "title": "Six regards sur les antiques",
  "document": "Ennio Quirino Visconti, Description des antiques du Musée Royal, Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Hérissant Le Doux, 1817",
  "document_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc",
  "title_page_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc/page/n4/mode/1up",
  "copy": "John Adams Library, Boston Public Library, call number 39999052977376",
  "rights": "French source text in the public domain. Visconti died in 1818. The source transcription and translation contain no modern editorial text or scan reproductions.",
  "transcription_policy": "Complete selected paragraphs, not a rewritten guide. Line-break hyphenation and spacing normalized. Straight apostrophes. Original vocabulary and historical assertions retained. Entry headings are navigation labels, not part of the spoken text.",
  "stops": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "title": "Province vaincue",
      "catalogue_entry": "1",
      "pages": "2",
      "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc/page/n7/mode/1up",
      "selection": "Complete descriptive paragraph",
      "fr": ["L'air triste et le désordre de la chevelure font retrouver dans ce buste le caractère que les Romains donnaient aux images des provinces conquises."],
      "en": ["The sorrowful expression and disordered hair give this bust the character that the Romans gave to images of conquered provinces."]
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "title": "Gordien Pie",
      "catalogue_entry": "2",
      "pages": "2",
      "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc/page/n7/mode/1up",
      "selection": "First two descriptive paragraphs, the altar paragraph is excluded",
      "fr": ["Ce n'est pas un fragment de statue, comme pourraient le faire supposer les bras qu'on ne voit pas ordinairement dans les bustes antiques. Le marbre est fouillé par derrière, comme on le pratiquait dans ce genre d'ouvrages pour les rendre moins lourds.", "Ce monument a été trouvé dans les ruines de Gabies, ville très-ancienne du Latium, à quatre lieues de Rome. Il a été publié dans l'ouvrage italien intitulé, Monumenti Gabini (Monumens de Gabies) n. 14."],
      "en": ["This is not a fragment of a statue, as the arms, which are not usually seen in ancient busts, might suggest. The marble is hollowed out at the back, as was the practice with works of this kind to make them lighter.", "This monument was found in the ruins of Gabies, a very ancient city of Latium, four leagues from Rome. It was published in the Italian work entitled Monumenti Gabini (Monuments of Gabies), number fourteen."]
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "title": "Bacchus et Ariadne",
      "catalogue_entry": "3",
      "pages": "2 to 3",
      "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc/page/n7/mode/2up",
      "selection": "Complete descriptive paragraph across two printed pages",
      "fr": ["Bacchus et son épouse, couronnés de pampres et tenant des thyrses dans leurs mains, sont portés sur deux chars attelés de centaures. Parmi les figures accessoires exécutées avec un travail très-recherché, on remarque le petit faune monté sur la croupe d'un centaure, et auquel ce monstre verse à boire d'une corne ou rhyton. Le médaillon du milieu renferme les bustes de deux Romains dont les cendres reposoient dans ce tombeau. La coiffure de la femme est dans le costume du troisième siècle de l'ère chrétienne."],
      "en": ["Bacchus and his wife, crowned with vine leaves and holding thyrsi in their hands, are carried on two chariots drawn by centaurs. Among the accompanying figures, executed with very elaborate workmanship, one notices the little faun riding on a centaur's back, to whom this creature pours a drink from a horn or rhyton. The central medallion contains the busts of two Romans whose ashes rested in this tomb. The woman's hairstyle follows the fashion of the third century of the Christian era."]
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "title": "Alexandre Sévère",
      "catalogue_entry": "5",
      "pages": "3",
      "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc/page/n8/mode/1up",
      "selection": "Complete descriptive paragraph",
      "fr": ["On reconnaît dans ce buste quelques traits de la physionomie du fils de Mammée. La draperie qui couvre sa cuirasse, et qui s'appelait palludamentum, est d'un style excellent. Il porte la couronne civique."],
      "en": ["In this bust, one recognises some features of the face of the son of Mammaea. The drapery covering his breastplate, which was called the palludamentum, is in an excellent style. He wears the civic crown."]
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "title": "Le Sauroctone",
      "catalogue_entry": "15",
      "pages": "7",
      "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc/page/n12/mode/1up",
      "selection": "Second and third descriptive paragraphs, the first paragraph is excluded",
      "fr": ["La statue du Sauroctone, ainsi qu'un grand nombre d'autres monumens antiques de ce Musée, faisaient partie de la collection de la villa Borghèse à Rome. Cette immense collection a passé toute entière dans le Musée royal.", "Le bas-relief encastré dans le piédestal représente une Bacchante jouant des cymbales."],
      "en": ["The statue of the Sauroctone, along with a large number of other ancient monuments in this Museum, formed part of the collection of the Villa Borghèse in Rome. This immense collection passed in its entirety into the Royal Museum.", "The relief set into the pedestal depicts a Bacchante playing cymbals."]
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "title": "Les Danseuses",
      "catalogue_entry": "16",
      "pages": "7",
      "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/descriptiondesan00visc/page/n12/mode/1up",
      "selection": "Complete descriptive paragraph",
      "fr": ["Cinq jeunes femmes, se tenant par la main, dansent autour d'un temple d'architecture corinthienne. Elles donnent une idée de ces choeurs où le chant des hymnes et la danse s'unissaient pour embellir les fêtes du paganisme."],
      "en": ["Five young women, holding hands, dance around a temple of Corinthian architecture. They give an idea of those choruses in which the singing of hymns and dancing came together to embellish the festivals of paganism."]
    }
  ]
}