Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    120/664
    2. Cycle of Demeteb, see Preller Demeter u. PersephonCj S. 91. DiONTSUs of Elis, Paus. vi, 26, 1, perhaps the one described by CaUistra- tus 8j of brass, a beautiful youth crowned with ivy, engirt with a nebris, •resting his lyre (?) on the thyrsus, and with a tender and dreamy expres- sion. Besides this youthful form, which was then but newly introduced, Praxiteles also represented the god in the older style, in mature man- hood, as in the group which Pliny describes, xxxiv, 8, 19, 10: Liberum patrem et Ebrietatem nobilemque una Satyrum quem Graeci m^t(io-f(Toy cognominant. It is not ascertained whether the Satyr of the Tripod- street (Paus. i, 20, 1. Athen. xiii, 591 b. comp. Heyne, Antiq. Aufs. ii, s. 63) is the same. This is taken to be the one which is often to be met with leaning on the trunk of a tree and reposing after playing, on the flute: M. PioCl. ii, 30; M. Cap. iii, 32; M. Fran?, ii. pi. 12; Bouill. i, 55. comp. Winckelm. W. iv. s. 75, 277. vi. s. 142. Visconti PioCl. ii. p. 60. Satyr at Megara, Paus. i, 43, 5. Praxiteles executed a group of Maenads, Thyads, Caryatic dancers (§. 365.) and Sileni in noisy procession. Plin. xxxvi, 4, 6. Anthol. Pal. ix, 756. Pan carrying a wine-skin, laughing nymphs, a Danae, in marble, Anthol. Pal. vi, 317. App. T. ii. p. 705. Plan, iv, 262. Hermes carrying the young Dionysus, in marble (Paus. v, 17, 1), probably copied in the relief, Zoega, Bassir. i, 3, and on the vase of Salpion. §. 384. 3 Eros. a. At Parion, in marble, naked, in the bloom of youth, PUn. xxxvi, 4, 5. b. At Thespi^, of PenteUc marble with gUded wings (JuUan Or. ii. p. 54 c. Spanh.), a boy in youthful bloom {iv <«?«), Lucian, Amor 11 17. Paus. ix, 27. Dedicated by Phryne (or Glycera), carried away by Caligula, then again by Nero, at the time of Pliny in Octavise echolis (Manso Mythol. Abhandl. s. 361 ff.). At Thespia3 stood a copy by Menodorus, Paus. JuUan, from ignorance, speaks of the Thespian statue as if it were of brass. iPgypt. Anthol. Pal. App. ii. p. 687. Plan, iv 203 c The Eros of marble in the sacrarium of Hejus at Messana, similar to the Thespian, Cic. Verr. 1. iv, 2, 3. (Comp. Amalthea m s. 300 Wiener Jahrb. xxxix. s. 138). d. e. Two of brass, described by CaUistratus 4, 11, the one reposing (Jacobs, p. 693), the other encirchng his hair with a fillet. The Parian or Thespian statue is probably imi- tated in the beautiful Torso from CentoceUe, with languishing expression, and hair arranged in the fashion of youth (Crobylus), M. PioCl i, 12. BouiU i 15, the more perfect one, with wings, is preserved at Naples, M. Borbon vi, 25. The Eros of the Elgin CoUection in the Brit. Mus. is similar, only it is still more slender and delicate. R. xv. n. 305.* D. A. K. Tf. 35. [Brit. Mus. T. ix.] 4 Aphrodite a. The one ordered by the Coans velata specu, that is entirely draped, Plin. xxxiv, 4, 5. b. That purchased by the Cnidians, in the temple of Aphrodite Euploea, placed in a chapel speciaUy fitted up for it (^dicula qu^ tota aperitur, Plin v.^, e^^' ^^'Ztr'J^r La.L. hi Anthol. Pal. App. T. ii. p. 674. Plan, iv, 160); after- 3s m By^a^tium, according to Cedrenus Of Parian marble; Lucian rives the essential features. Amor. 13 sq. Imag. 6, as foUows : S.a.e-