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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    [the splendid Pompey in the Spada palace,] the colossal Agrippa (the dolphia is restored) in the palace Grimani, said to be from the Parthenon. Pococke Trav. ii. pi. 97. Visconti Icon. Roman, pi. 8. Augustus in the Casa Rondanini, Winckelm. vii. s. 217. Claudius, Ant. di Ere. vi, 78. Domitian, Guattani M. I. 1786, p. xvi. Comp. the examples in Levezow's Antinous, s. 51. There is often a pallium around the body, as in the otherwise Achillean Germanicus from the basilica of Gabii in the Louvre 141. Mongez, pi. 24, 3. and the Nero, Louvre 32. Clarac, pi. 322. 6. Herod erected in Csesarea colossal statues of Augustus-Jupiter and Roma. Joseph. B. I. i, 21. comp. §. 203. The sedent colossal statues of Augustus and Claudius from Herculanum in regard to dress have the costume of Jupiter, M. Borbon. iv. 36. 37. An Augustus of bronze as a standing Jupiter with the thunderbolt. Ant. di Ere. vi, 77. The fine bust of Augustus at Munich 227, and in the Louvre 278, Mongez, pi. 18, has indeed the crown of oak-leaves, but otherwise it is quite a portrait. The sitting statue of Tiberius from Piperno has the costume of Jupiter, and his horrible countenance is rendered as noble as possible. Mongez, pi. 22. Comp. the Yeientine statue, Guattani Mem. Encicl. 1819. p. 74, and the splendid head from Gabii, Bouill. ii, 75. Caligula even wished to convert the Zeus at Olympia into a statue of himself. The magnifi- cent colossal bust in Spain represents Claudius as a god, Admir. Romse, 80. Mongez, pi. 27, 3. 4, but even deified he retains a doltish look. A grandly treated colossal head of Vitellius at Vienna.—Augustus as Apollo, §. 362, 2. 7. Portrait statues: Livia as priestess of Augustus from Pompeii, M. Borbon. iii, 37. Avellino, Atti d. Acad. Ercol. ii. p. 1. The first Agrippina in the capitol, splendid in the disposition of the entire figure, less deserving of praise in the drapery, M. Cap. T. iii. t. 53. Mongez, pi. 24,* 1. 2, Similar in Florence, Wicar iii, 4. Farnesian statue of the secoi^d (?) Agrippina grandly handled, Mongez, pi. 27, 6. 7. M. Borbon. iii, 22.—Livia as Ceres (L. 622. Bouill. ii, 54. comp. R. Rochette, Ann. d. Inst. i. p. 149. on this costume), Magna Mater (§. 200), Vesta (on coins Eckhel vi. p. 166). Julia, daughter of Augustus, as Cora, L. 77. Bouill. ii, 53. Agrippina, Drusilla, and Julia, Caligula's sisters, on coins as Secu- ritas, Pietas, and Fortuna, Eckhel vi. p. 219.—[Two of Julia, daughter of Titus M. Chiarara. ii, 34. 35.]—Among the most excellent of the portrait statues are the matron and virgin (the latter also found in a copy) from Herculanum at Dresden, n. 272—274. Bekker August. 19—24. comp. Race. 91, reckoned by Hirt to be Caligula's mother and two sisters. Fa- mily of Marcus Nonius Balbus from Herculanum, two equestrian statues (§. 434) from the basilica, and seven statues on foot from the theatre, viz. Balbus with his father, mother, and four daughters. Neapel's Ant. s. 17 fF. 8. Thus, for example, Divus Julius on the Cameo, §. 200, 2. b., Divus Augustus on coins of Tiberius, &c. Nero was the first who assumed while living (as Phoebus) the corona radiata, Eckhel vi. p. 269. Mongez, pi. 30, 3. 4. Bouill. ii, 76. §. 197, 3. Comp. Schopflin, De Apotheosi, 17.30. 9. Coponius executed fourteen nations conquered by Pompey, for the portico ad luitmies in Pompey's theatre; Augustus seems to have added another series. Schneider ad Varr. de R. R. ii. p. 221. Thiersch Epochen,