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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    early in 1846 a small vase with the Etr. alphabet complete, comp. Mus. Gregor. ii. tv. 103; two goblets from Bomarzo with names, Bull. 1846. p. 105.] on several others, of rudest workmanship, there are painted Etrus- can names of persons (Kale Mukathesa) according to Gerhard, Ann. d. Inst. iii. p. 73. 175. Micali, tv. 101. In subsequent excavations insti- tuted by Baron Beugnot other two pictures of a vase were found, which by the mixture of Etruscan genii and the inscriptions (Aivas, Charun j Turms, Pentasila) maintain a great resemblance to the cinerary cistae. Hallische ALZ. 1833. Intell. 46. M. d. I. ii, 8. Aivas throwing himself on his sword. Ataiun attacked by dogs, ii. 9. A. Aivas stabbed by an- other, a gladiatorial conceit, Charu present. B. A woman (HIN0IA), Charon (TVPMVCAS), a woman (HENTASILA), yellow figures, extreme- ly rude drawing, Ann. vi. p. 264. Vase from Perugia, Ann. iv. tv. g. comp. v. p. 346. [Meloger and Atalanta according to Zannoni in the Antologia di Firenze.] Mirror with numerous inscriptions. Bull. 1835. p. 122. 158. A bowl found at Clusium has a gorgoneion with Etruscan inscription, Micali, tv. 102, 5. A fragment of a vase, of better workmanship it seems, with Etruscan inscription (Tritun, Alacca) in Inghir. v. tv. 55, 8. There was also found at Volci a goblet with the voyage of Odysseus past the Island of the Sirens, and the inscription Fecetiai pocolom (ALZ., ibid.), and also at Tarquinii a vase with a figure of Eros in later style, and the words Volcani pocolom. Levezow Berl. V. no. 909, in Orte two drinking cups with rude figures, Lavernae poculum, Salutes poculum. Bull. 1837. p. 130, proofs that painted vases were still manufactured in Etruria even when it was subject to the Romans in the sixth century of the city. [Millingen was last in possession of the two Durand goblets, not Fecetiai but .^cetise pocolom, so that Secchi (erroneously) read Egerise and Be- lolai pocolom. In the Gregor. Mus. Lavernae pocolom and Keri pocolom. (that is, Geri Mani.) Etruscan vases in Micali, M. Ined. 1844. tv. 35— 47, in Berlin after Gerhard's newly acquired monuments, n. 1620—29. 1790—95. Of those goblets there are according to Millingen's statements about 6 known with Etruscan characters, and another with inscription but without figures.] 178. Now what results, for the entire development of art 1 in Etruria—partly from the consideration of these different species of art and classes of monuments, and partly from some intimations of the ancients—is nearly this: that the power- 2 ful, indeed, but, at the same time, sombre and severe spirit of the Etruscan nation, which was denied the free creative fancy , of the (jreeks, showed itself in art much more receptive than productive, inasmuch as at its early acquaintance with the works of Greek, especially Peloponnesian artists, it faithfully appropriated their style, and adhered to it for centuries; not 3 neglecting, nevertheless, to avail itself also, for decorative statuary, of the unintelligible, but for that very reason more interesting forms which commerce with the East introduced, while at the same time the taste for bizarre compositions and listorted shapes Avhich was inborn in the Etruscan race, mani-