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

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    »x^' ToSoV vt''-^ificj(ii!>oi pvBfiol'. From this and from the coins of Cnidus in honour of Plautilla we can recognise this Aphrodite in the statue in the gardens of the Vatican (Perrier, n. 85. Episcopius, n. 46, Race. 4), in the recently draped one in the M. PioCl. i, 11, and another brought to Munich (n. 135) from the Braschi palace (Flaxman, Lectures on Sculpt, pi. 22), and from these also in busts (in the Louvre 59. Bouill. i. 68) and in gems, Lippert Dactyl. I, i, 81. Her nudity was accounted for by the laying aside her dress in the bath with the \eit, the right covered her lap. The forms were grander, the countenance, notwithstanding an ex- pression of smiling languishment, was of a loftier character and rounder form, than in the Medicean Venus; the hair was bound by a simple fiUet. The identity of the Cnidian and the Medicean Venus was main- tained by Meyer ad Winckelm. W. iv, ii. s. 143. Jenaer ALZ. 1806. Sept. 67. Gesch. der Kunst. i. s. 113, in opposition to Heyne Ant. Aufs. i. s.. 123. Visconti M. PioCl. i.^ p. 18. Levezow, Ob die Mediceische Venus ein Bild der Knidischen sei. B. 1808. Thiersch Epochen, s. 288.—c. A brazen one, Plin. d. One of marble at Thespise, Paus. ix, 27. e. Aa Aphrodite by Praxiteles stood in the Adonion at Alexandria on Latmus, Steph. B. s. V.' A'AsS.a.vlqeix. Peitho and I^regorus (^^^(pctai;, Homer) with the Aphr. Praxis at Megara. Paus. i, 43. 6. According to Clem. Alex. Prot. p. 35. Sylb. Arnob. adv. gent, vi, 13, Praxiteles took Cratina as the model of his Aphrodite; according to others Phryne, who also stood sculptured in marble by him at Thespise (Paus. ix, 27) and gilt at Delphi (Athen. xiii. p. 591. Paus. x, 14, 5. Plut. d© Pyth. orac. 14, 15), the trophy of Hellenic voluptuousness according to Crates. Comp. Jacobs in Wieland's Att. Mus. Bd. iii. s. 24. 51. Accord- ing to Strabo he also made a present of an Eros to Glycera, ix. p. 410.. According to Pliny he represented the triumph of a sprightly hetaera over an Attic matron of melancholy disposition: Signa flentis matronas et meretricis gaudentis (Phryne). Comp. B. Murr Die Mediceische Venus und Phryne. 7. Fecit et (ex aere) puberem [Apollinem] subrepenti lacertse comi- nus sagitta insidiantem, quem Sauroctonon vocant, Plin. comp. Martial, Epigr. xiv, 172. Seitz maintained that this lizard-slayer is no Apollo, Mag. Encycl. 1807. T. v. p. 259. There is now perceived in this an allu- sion to augury by lizards (Welcker, Akad. Kunstmus. zu Bonn, s. 71 ff. A. Feuerbach Vatic. ApoU. s. 226), but playfully handled. Imitations, possessing naive grace and loveliness, very similar to the satyr of Prax- iteles in the posture of the feet, are often to be met with (ViU. Borgh. St. 2. n. 6. Winckehn. M. I. i. n. 40. M. Royal, i. pi. 16 ; M. PioCl. i, 13; a brazen one in Villa Albani); also on gems (Millin, Pierr. grav. pi. 5 and elsewhere). There is also mention made of an Apollo with his sister and mother; Leto and Artemis several times (osculum quale Praxi- teles habere Dianam credidit, Petron.), and numerous other statues of deities by Praxiteles. Sillig C. A. p. 387. On the encaustic treatment of the statues of Praxiteles, §. 310. 128. A like spirit of art animated Leochares, whose Gany- 1