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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    portion of Numismatics by Car. Patin, Vaillant, Morelli, and Havercamp. Eckhel D, N, ii, v. p. 53 sqq. especially HI. Stieglitz, Distributio nu- morum familiarum Roman, ad typos accommodata (an instructive book). Lips. 1830. B. Borghesi on family coins in Giornale Acad. T. Ixiv. Ixv. Cavedoni Monete ant. italiche impresse per la guerra civile, BuUett, 1837. p. 199. 2. Fabius Pictor painted the temple of Salus, and that too in a mas- terly manner, in 451. Liv. x, 1. Plin. xxxv, 7. Val. Max. viii, 14, 6. Dion. Hal. Frgm. by Mai xvi, 6. Letronne Lettres d'un Antiquiare, p. 412. Append., p. 82. denies that the passage in Dionysius refers to Fabius. M. Pacuvius of Rudiae, the tragedian (half a Greek), painted the temple of Hercules in the Forum Boarium about 560. Postea non est spectata (h£ec ars) honestis manibus, Plin. A painter named Theodotus in Nae- vius (Festus, p. 204. Lindem.) [Panofka in the Rhein. Mus. iv. s. 133 ff.] about 530, was evidently a Greek, as well as the roixoy^oi(pog Deme- trius, 590. Diodor. Exc. Vat. xxxi, 8. comp. Osann, Kunstblatt 1832. N. 74. [roi)coy^»<Po; is only Osann's conjecture for ro'Troy^xcpo?; rovioyqct.(J)og is more likely in the sense which we discover from Vitruvius, from topia; R. Rochette Suppl. au Catal. des artistes, p. 271 sqq. prefers T07royg«(pof, although TOTTOf cannot be pointed out in the sense of landscape.] 3. Examples in Pliny xxxv, 7, especially M. Valerius Messala's battle against the Carthaginians in Sicily, 489, and Lucius Scipio's victory over Antiochus about 564. Lucius Hostilius Mancinus in 606 explained to the people himself a picture representing the conquest of Carthage. Triumphs made pictures necessary (Petersen, Einleit. s. 68); for that purpose ^milius Paulus got Metrodorus from Athens (ad excolendum triumphum), Plin. xxxv, 40, 30. FIFTH PERIOD. FROM THE YEAR 60G OF THE CITY (OLYMPIAD 158, 3) TILL THE MIDDLE AGES. 1. GENEEAL RErLECTIONS ON THE CHARACTEE AND SPIEIT OF THE TIME. 183. As the whole history of civilized mankind (with the 1 exception of India), so also was the history of art now concen- trated at Rome; but merely through the political supremacy, not on account of the artistic talents of the Romans. The Romans, although on one side intimately allied to the Greeks, were yet as a whole of coarser, less finely organized materials. Their mind was always directed to those externa,l relations of 2 men to one another, by which their activity in general is