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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    Athenodorus Rhodii (Athenodorus was the son of Agesander, according to an inscription). Similiter (viz, also de consilii sententia) Palatinas Osess. domes, etc. Discovered in 1506 in the neighbourhood of the baths of Titus; in six pieces; the right arm restored after models by Giov. Agnolo. Some portions of the sons are also new. Race. 1. M. PioCl. ii, 39. Piranesi, Statue. M. Fran?, iv, 1. M. Bouill. ii, 16. A pj^ramidal group arranged in a vertical plane. The secondary figures also subordi- nated according to size, as in Niobe. Three acts of the same tragedy; the father in the middle, in whom energy and patlios at the highest pitch. Antique heads of Laocoon in the collection of Prince Arensberg, and at Bologna [in the Villa Litta at Lainata near Milan]. Winckeim. W. vi, 1. s 101 ff. comp. ii. 8. 203 ff. Heyne Antiq. Aufs. ii. s. 1. Lessing's Laocoon. Propyteen Bd. i. St. 1. Thiersch Epochen, s. 322. The head of the Duke of Arensberg at Brussels, in the Mon. d. Inst, ii, 416, comp, Schorn Annali ix. p. 153., on that at MUan p. 160. [The former is not antique. Das. Akad. Kunstmus. at Bonn 1841, S, 14; the Famesian head referred to by Winckelmann seems to represent Capaneus,] 157. The Farnesian Bull, the work of Trallian artists, which was brought from Rhodes to Rome, also appears to be- long to the Rhodian school It is outwardly imposing indeed, ! but without a satisfying spiritual import. The representation of the scene was at that time a favourite subject m Asia Mi- nor, and it is exactly the same as in the temple of ApoUoms at Cyzicus (§. 153), whose reliefs, representing, in numerous mythological and historical groups, examples of the piety of sons toward their mothers, are deserving of notice as a work of fine conception and skilful invention towards the end of this period. 1. Plin. xxxvi, 4,10: Zethus et Amphion ac Dirce et taurus, vin- culumque, ex eodem lapide, Rhodo advecta opera ApoUonii et Taurisci. Probably restored even at the time of CaracaUa, then again in modem times and overloaded with unsuitable figures (such as Antiope [?]). Pira- nesi, Statue. [Gal. Myth. pi. 140. Clarac pi. 811. 811 St.] Maffei, Race. 48 Winckehn. W. vi, 1. s. 128 ff. (comp. ii. s. 233.) vii. s. 190. Heyne, Antiq Aufs ii s. 182. Fr, Paganuzzi, Sopra la mole scultoria volg. den. il Tore Farnese. [The author's AnnaU ix. p. 287—92. Two mural paint- ings and other monuments in Avellino Descriz. di una Casa di Pompei 1843. p. 40. Welcker Alte Denkm. 6, 352-370.] 2 The same group on a coin of Thyatira, Eckhel N. Anecd, tb, 15, 1, and probably also at Antioch, Malalas, p. 99, Ven,—It is also described in the Epigr. on the Oyzican ReUefs, Anthol. Pal. iii {^yi kccI sk t^vqoio x«.<^«^T£T6 It^T^cCKCc asi^m o<PQ» lil^u? ailiri -r^^' ''^^^ ^''^T^)' reUefs (^T.Ao^..<i>./«, the way in which they were put on is difficult to determine) represented, for example: Dionysus conductmg Semele to Olympus, Telephus discovering Auge, Pytho slain by ApoUo and Artemis down to the Catanfean brothers, Cleobis and Biton, and Romulus and Remus. On the subjects, comp. especially Polyb, xxiu, 18, As to the rest, Visconti, Iscr, Triopee, p. 122. .i'^^^H Exa Cnt. in Scnj^^^ ii. p, 139. A^imadv. ad Anth. iii, iii. P- 620 [Hall Litt. Zeit. 183a Oct. S. 226 f. Letronne Append, aux Lettres d un antiqu. p. 8o.J