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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    tine villa, full of imitations of Greek and Egyptian buildings (Lyceum, Academia, Prytaneum, Cauopus, Poecile, Tempe, [Lesche, in great part preserved] a labyrinth of ruins, 7 millia in circuit, and a very rich mine of statues and mosaics. Pianta della villa Tiburt. di Adriano by Pirro Ligorio and Franc. Contini. R. 1751. Winckelm. vi, 1. s. 291. As euer- getes of Greek cities Hadrian completed the Olympieion at Athens (01. 227, 3. comp. C. L n. 331), and built a new city to which he gave his name; the arch over the entrance to it is still standing; there were there a Heraeon, Pantheon, and Panhellenion, with numerous Phrygian and Libyan columns. Probably the very large portico 376 X 252 feet, north from the citadel, with stylobates, is also one of Hadrian's edifices. Stuart i. ch. 5 (who takes it to be the Poecile), Leake, Topogr. p. 120. To the Attic monuments of the time belongs also that in commemoration of the Seleucid Philopappus' admission to the citizenship of Athens, erected in the Museion about the year 114 under Trajan. Stuart iii. ch. 5. Grandes Vues de Cassas et Bence, pi. 3. Bockh C. I. 362. In Egypt Antinoe (Besa), beautifully and regularly laid out in the Grecian style, with co- lumns of the Corinthian order, but of free forms however. Description de I'Egypte, T. iv. pi. 63 sqq. Decrianus, architect and mechanician, §. 197. Under Antoninus Pius, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, at first probably destined only for the latter, a prostyle with beautiful Corin- thian capitals, the cornice already greatly overloaded. Desgodetz 8. Moreau pi. 23. 24. Villa of the Emperor at Lanuvium. The column in honour of Antoninus Pius erected by Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, merely a column of granite, of which nothing more than the marble postament is preserved, in the garden of the Vatican, §. 204, 4: Vignola de Col. Antonini. R. 1705. [Seconda Lettera del sgr. M. A. de la Chausse sopra la col. d. apoth. di A. P. Nap. 1805.] Column of Marcus Aurelius, less imposing than that of Trajan (the bas-relief band is of the same height throughout). [The col. of Marcus Aurelius, after P. S. Bartoli's designs, by Bellori 1704.] A triumphal arch erected at the same time in the Flaminian way, the reliefs of which are still preserved in the palace of the Conservatori. Herodes Atticus, the preceptor of M. Aurelius and L. Verus (comp. FioriUo and Visconti on his inscriptions) showed an in- terest in Athens by the embellishment of the stadion and by building an odeion. A theatre at New-Corinth. [A temple, supposed to have been buUt in the time of the Antonines at Jaeckly near Mylasa, Ion. An- tiq. i. ch. 4.] 192. After the time of Marcus Aurelius, although the love 1 of building did not cease, a more rapid decline in architectural taste took place. Decorations were crowded to such a degree 2 that all clearness of conception was destroyed, and so many- intermediate mouldings were everywhere introduced between the essential members that the principal forms, especially the corona, completely lost their definite and distinctive character By seeking to multiply every simple form, interrupting the 3 rows of columns together with the entablature by frequent advancings and retirings, sticking half-columns to pilasters,