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

  • Karl Otfried Müller
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1852
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    the temple of Zeus Olympius (§. 80, i, 4) to be changed into the Corinthian style by Oossutius a Roman (0. I. 363. comp. p. 433); however it was first completed by Hadrian. Stuart iii. ch. 2. Comp. Ersch Encycl. Attika s. 233. At a later period Ariobarzanes II. of Cappadocia renewed the Odeion of Pericles which was burnt 173, 3, by Aristion. The architects were C. and M. Stallius and Menalippus. C. I. 357. The octagonal horologic building of Andronicus Cyrrhestes with pecuUar Corinthian columns also belongs to this time. Stuart i. ch. 3. Hirt, s. 152. There was at Rome an imitation of it, but with 12 figures of the winds. See Polenus, Exercit. Vitruv. ii, 2. p. 179. [Magnificent gymnasia in Asia Minor, §. 292. R. 2.] 3. THE PLASTIC ART. 1 154 Together with the immediate scholars of Praxiteles, the Sicyonian school in an especial manner flourished from the beginning of this period, till the 120th Olympiad and even somewhat later. In it brass-casting was practised in its ancient perfection and noble style, by Euthycrates, indeed, with more severity (austerius) than the taste of the time ap- 2 proved. According to historical accounts the art of brass- 3 casting afterwards died out (cessavit deinde ars); and although for a while very meritorious statuaries were still active in Asia Minor, yet casting in brass, and art in general were visibly declining, till at the end of this period, by the study ot earlier works, a restoration of art was brought about at Athens, which coincided with the ascendancy of Greek taste at Rome. Plastic artists of this period, whose time is known: Aristodemus, brass-caster, 118. Euttchides of Sicyon, a scholar of Lysippus, brass- caster and painter, 120. Dahippus and Beda, sons and scholars of Ly- sippus, BuTHYCEATES and Phoenix, scholars of Lysippus, brass-casters, 120 Zeuxiades, a scholar of Silanion, brass-caster, 120 (comp. Welcker in the Kunstblatt 1827. No. 82). D^tondas of Sicyon, brass-caster, 120. Polyeuctus, brass-caster at Athens, about 120 (?). Chares of Lmdus, scholar of Lysippus, 122-125. Praxiteles, the younger brass-caster, 123 (in the Testament of Theophrastes 1). iEtion (Eetion) of Amphipo- Us, carver, about 124 (Theoc. Ep. 7. CaUimach. Ep. 25). Tisiobates of Sicyon, a scholar of Euthycrates, sculptor, 125. Piston brass-caster, contemporary of Tisicrates (?). Cantharus of Sicyon, scholar of Buty- chides, sculptor, 125. Hermocles of Rhodes, brass-caster 125 Ptbo- MACHUS, brass-caster and painter, 125 (120 according to Phny) till 135 Jcomi) \ 157*) Xenocrates, scholar of Tisicrates (or Euthycrates), braTs caster 130. Isigonus, Stratonicus, Antiochus [rather Antigonus, from PUn xxX, 8, 84^ Sillig], brass-casters, about 135 and lat-. Micon, son of Niceratus, of Syracuse, brass-caster, 142. ^gmetes plastes 144. Stadieus 150 Alexandrus, son of king Perseus, toreutes, 163 (P utarch PauTus 37) Antheus, CaUistratus, Polycles, Athen^us (?), Camxenus, P^tcles W,and Timocles -^.'^^--^j (Paus. X, 34, 3. 4.), brass-casters, also inpart sculptors, 166. The sons ot