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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    2. Cities walled in the Etruscan manner: Volaterrse (whose arched gate however is pointed out as a Roman restoration, Bull. d. Inst. 1831, p. 61), Vetulonium, Rusellae, Fsesulae, Populonia, Cortona, Perusia, Veii (W. Qell. Memorie d. Inst, i). The walls of Saturnia (Aurinia), Cosa, Falerii (Winckelm. W. iii. s. 167), as well as the Umbrian walls of Ameria, Spoletium, die. consist of polygonal blocks, Micali tv. 2—12. 3. The Canals of the Padus diverted its waters into the ancient lagune of Adria, the Septem maria. There were similar canals at the mouths of the Arnus. Etrusker i. s. 213, 224. The emissary of the Alban lake, which was occasioned, perhaps also conducted, by an Etruscan haruspex, was excavated in hard volcanic rock, 7,500 feet long, 7 deep and 5 broad. Sickler, Almanach aus Rom. i. s. 13. tf. 2. Hirt, Gesch. der Bau- kunst ii. s. 105 ff. Niebuhr's Roman History ii. p. 504. On similar canals in Southern Etruria, Mebuhr i. p. 129. 4. In order to remove the doubts thrown out by Hirt as to the age of the Cloaca, Gesch. i. s. 242. comp. Bunsen, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom, i. s. 151. Ann. d. Inst. i. p. 44, who agrees with Piranesi, Magnifi- cenza de' Romani, t. 3. 5. The cavcedium is called by a Tuscan word atrium; the middle of which is the imptuvium or compluvium. The most simple cavsedium at Rome was called Tuscanicum, afterwards tetrastylum, Corinthium. Varro de L. L. V, 33. §. 161. Vitruv. vi, 10. Diod. v, 40. 169. The Tuscan temple-architecture was an offshoot from l the Doric, not however without considerable deviations. The columns, provided with bases, were more slender (14 moduli according to Vitruvius) and stood further apart {arwostylum), as they only carried a wooden entablature, with the ends of the beams jutting out (mutuli) over the architrave, far-pro- jecting cornice {grunda) and lofty pediment. The plan of the 2 temple received modifications in reference to the consecrated enclosure for the observation of auspices,—the augural tem- plum; the basement became more like a square, the cella or several cellas were carried to the back (postica), ranges of columns filled the anterior half (antica), so that the principal door fell exactly to the middle of the building. The Capito- 3 line temple with three cellse was built according to this rule by the Tarquinian princes. Although elegant and rich in the execution, this style of architecture never attained the solemnity and majesty of the Doric, but had always something flat and heavy. No remains of it now exist; the Etruscan 4 cinerary urns betray in the architectonic enrichments a cor- rupted Greek taste of later times. 1. Vitruv. iii, 3, 6. On the Tuscan columnar ordinance Marquez Ri- cerche dell' ordine Dorico, p. 109 sqq. Stieglitz Archaeol. der Baukunst ii, i. 8. 14. Hirt, Gesch. i. s. 251 ff. Klenze Versuch der Wiederherstel- lung des Toscanischen Terapels, .Miinchen 1821. Inghirami, Mon. Etr. iv. p. 1. tv. 5. 6. [Memorie per le belle arti,,T. 3. p. cclxx.] There in