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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    EARLIEST CHRISTIAN ART. 206 1. The paintings from the Baths of Constantine [in the Rospigliosi palace], Bartoli, pi. 42 sq. Agincourt T. v. pi. 4. As to whether the pic- ture of Roma in the Barberini palace really belongs to the time of Con- stantine, see Winckelm. W. v. s. 159. Hirt, Gesch. der Baukunst ii. s. 440. Sickler and Reinhart's Almanach Bd. i. s. 1. Tf. 1. Painting P. C. Mai- ler De genio sevi Theodos. p. 161. 2. On the catacombs: Bosio, Roma sotterranea. R. 1632. (Engrav- ings by Cherubino Alberti). Aringhi Roma Subterranea novissima. R. 1651. Bottari Sculture e Pitture sagre estratte dai Cimiterii di Roma. 1737—54. Artaud Voy. dans les Catac. de Rome. P. 1810. 8vo. Bartoli's work, §. 210, 4to. Agincourt, pi. 6—12. Rostell. Beschr. Roms i. s. 410. [The work begun by Pater Marchi after extensive investigations, three parts of which have already appeared.] 3. The Ambrosian Iliad (Mai, Iliad. Pragm. Antiquiss. c. picturis Med. 1819), the pictures of which come nearest to classic antiquity [also Rome 1835, small fol. Homeri Iliados picturae ant. ex Cod. Mediol. Ibid. 1835, Virgilii picturae ant. ex Codd. Vaticanis]. The Yatican Virgil (of the 4th or 5th century 1). See Bartoli Figurge Antiquae e Cod. Virg. Vatic. (embeUished). Agincourt 20—25. MiUin G. M. pi 175 b. sqq. Beschr. Roms ii, 2. s. 345. The Vatican Terence with scenes from comedy, Berger De personis 1723. Beschr. Roms ibid. s. 346. The Vatican manuscript of Cosmas Indopleustes. The oldest miniatures of the books of the Bible, especially those in the Vatican on Joshua, approach the Homeric ones above referred to in costume and composition. 4. See Cassiodor. Var. i, 6. vii, 5. Symmachus Ep. vi, 49. viii, 42. Justinian's Chalke contained large mosaic pictures of his warlike achieve- ments, Procop. De sed. Justin, i, 10. On a wall-painting of Theodoric in mosaic, Procop. B. Goth, i, 24, Rumohr Ital. Forschungen i. s. 183, Manso less accurate s. 403. Comp. Miiller De genio aevi Theod. p. 168. Accounts of the mosaics in basilicas, which are never wanting there: Sartorius' Regierung der Ostgothen s. 317. n. 21.—Specimens are furnished by A. Ciampini among others, Opera. R. 1747. Furietti de Musivis. R. 1752. Agincourt v. pi. 14 sqq. Gutensohn und Knapp (§. 194). Comp. §. 322. Two pictures in the Bibl. Coisliniana, Nicephorus Botoniates with a monk and emperor and empress, over whom Christ hovers touching both crowns. 213. Notwithstanding the disappearance of all living study 1 of nature, and the loss of all higher technical dexterities, the practice of painting and sculpture which again degenerated into mechanical drudgery, still adhered however to many of the principles and forms of ancient art. The Christian reli- 2 gion appropriated at first for the decoration of churches, tombs and signet-rings, not merely many forms and even some sub - jects of ancient art, but also created for itself a plastic and pictorial cycle, partly from historical and partly from allego- rical materials; only it repelled, by a purer and more severe conception, all adoration of artistic shapes. Constant and 3