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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    tured tc laeasure himself with Chares in brass-casting, and everywhere was manifest the influence of the restoration of art produced by the study of the best models which took its rise principally from Athens. Neither was there any lack of 3 Avorkers in vessels, although none came up to those ol earher times- wherefore argentum vetus was used as synonymous with finely-wrought. In coins the best age did not begin till the 4 year 700; we have denarii of that time which rival the coins of Pyrrhus and Agathocles in delicacy of workmanship and beauty of design, although indeed the spirit and grandeur of earlier Greek coins are still found wanting in these. 2. Pasiteles from Magna Grecia, toreutes and brass-caster, Civis Rom 662 ; he executed perhaps sometime earUer the statue for Metellus' temple of Jupiter, Plin. xxxvi, 4, 10, 12. comp. however Sillig Amalth. iii 294. Colotes, a scholar of Pasiteles, toreutes about 670 (?). Stephanus, a scholar of Pasiteles, sculptor (Thiersch, Epochen s. 295) about 670. Tlepolemus, modeller in wax, and Hiero, painter, brothers, of Cibyra, Ver- res' canes venatici, about 680. Arcesilaus, plastes, brass-caster, and sculptor, 680—708. (Venus Genitrix for Csesar's Forum). Posis, plastes, 690. Coponius, brass-caster, 690. Menelaus, scholar of Stephanus, sculptor, about 690 (§. 416). Decius, brass-caster, about 695. Praxi- teles [Pasiteles], Poseidonius, Leostratides, Zopyrus, toreutge and work- ers in vessels, about 695. (Silver mirrors came into fashion through Praxiteles [Pasiteles], he made a figure of the young Roscius. Cic. de Div. i, 36). Aulanius Euandrus of Athens, toreutes and plastes, 710—724. Lysias, sculptor, about 724. Diogenes of Athens, sculptor, 727. Cephi- sodorus, at Athens, about 730 (?). C. I. 364. Eumnestus, Sosicratides' son, at Athens, about 730. C. I. 359. Add. Pytheas, Teucer, toreutae about that time. Maecenas' freedman Junius Thuletio, Jlaiurarius sigiUa- rius, Gruter Thes. Inscr. 638, 6 (§. 306). Gold-workers of Livia, in the inscriptions of the Columbarium. [Eubulides and Eucheir at Athens, alternately for three generations, C. 1. n. 910. R. Rochette Suppl. au Ca- tal. des Artistes, p. 306.] 3. Zopyrus' trial of Orestes before the Areopagus, is thought to be recognised on a cup found in the harbour of Antium, Winckelm. M. I. n. 151. Werke vii. tf. 7. Subito ars hsec ita exolevit ut sola jam vetustate censeatur, Plin. xxxiii, 55. 4. Thus, for example, on the denarius of L. Manlius, with Sulla oti the triumphal car, the reverse in particular is still very poorly handled. The denarius of A. Plautius is much better, with the Jew Bacchius, of the time of Pompey's Asiatic wars. That of Nerius with the head of Jupiter is very excellent, of 703. Equally fine is that of Cornuficius with Jup. Amnon (I explain the reverse thus: Juno Sospita has sent a favourable omen to Cornuficius when taking the auspices, hence she car- ries the crow on her shield, and now crowns him as conqueror). Like- wise that of Sextus Pompeius with the head of his father, and on the reverse the brothers of Catana (comp. §. 157. Rem. 2), and Neptune as ruler of the sea, although this one sliows a certain dryness of style.