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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    and reflections on works of excellence. 2d, Historical inquir- ers into the history of artists. 3d, Periegetic authors who described remarkable objects in places famed for art 4th, Sophists who took occasion for rhetorical compositions from works of art. 5th, Learned collectors. 1. Tliere were ancient writings, commentarii, of architects on parti- cular buildings erected by them, originating probably in reports (comp, Corp. Inscr. n. 160), by Theodorus of Samos (?) about 01. 45, Chersiphon and Metagenes (?) about 55, Ictinus and Carpion, 85, Philo, 115, and others in Vitruvius vii. Prjef. The Nesj Uoimis which was ascribed to the ancient Theodorus or Philo, contained, according to a fragment (in Pollux X, 52, 188. comp. Hemsterh.), general instruction in sacred archi- tecture ; oVaoS^jcj) of Philo. M. Vitruvius Pollio, engineer under Ca3sar and Augustus, De Architectura hbri x. Publ. by L. Marini, 1837, Annali d. Inst. Archeol. viii. p. 130. Bullett. 1837. p. 188. The artists Antigonus, Mensechmus, Xenocrates, after Alexander, and others. De Toreutice, PUn. Elench. auctor. xxxiii. Pasiteles (a. u. 700) wrote mirabilia opera. Scientific painters, Parrhasius (01. 95), Euphranor (107), Apelles (112), and others, wrote on their art (PI. El. xxxv). Writings by painters and sculptors, Euphranor, Silanion (114) on symmetry, Plin. xxxv, 40, 25. Vitruvius vii. Prsef. Laas ^regi T^i^uu yXt^ipjjj, Bekker Anecd. Gr. p. 1182. 2. 0/ TroKvTr^cC'/i^ovijaoi.vrii aTrovhri rci kg rovg •nr'Ka.arxg, Paus. V, 20, 1. Historians, treating of particular epochs, quote from these the contem- porary artists. On the connoisseursliip of the ancients, see §. 184, 6. 3. The first source are the Ciceroni, s^yiyyirx}, TrsQinyYirxl, fivaretyayol, oi ettI Bccv^xffiu (see Cic. Verr. iv, 59. Mystagogi Jovis Olympiae et Minervaj Athenis, Varro ap. Non. p. 419), who lived by mythi and anec- dotes of art (Lucian Philops. 4). Comp. Facius CoUectan. 198. Thorla- cius De gustu Graecorum antiquitatis ambitioso, 1797. Bottiger Archaol. der Mahlerei, 299.—Periegetic authors: the searching and comprehen- sive Polemon, 6 -Tve^iYiyriTvig, aryihox,6Trcit,i, about 01. 138, Heliodorus on Athens, Hegesandrus, Alcetas on Delphi, and numberless others. See L. Preller Polemonis Perieg. fragm. Lpz. 1838. Pausanias the Lydian, under Hadrian and the Antonines, an accurate and very intelligent writer, but who must be altogether conceived as a perieffetes/ET^hx^os TTi^iYiy/iaicj;, /3. /. 4. Descriptions of pictures by the rhetorician Philostratus (about 220 p. C.) and the son of his daughter, the younger Philostratus. In oppo- sition to Welcker Passow Zschr. f. A. W. 1836. s. 571., from ignorance of ancient art. [Kayser in his ed. of Philostr. 1844, in the prooemium to the Pictures.] 'Ex.(pQa.aet; of Libanius (314—390) and other rhetori- cians. Comp. Petersen's four Programmes De Libanio, Havniae 1827, 1828. The most ingenious of the kind ai'e some writings of Lucian. Of a kindred description are the greater part of epigrams on works of art, regarding which see Heyne, Commentat. Soc. Gott. x. p. 80 sqq. 6. M. Terentius Varro De novem Disciplinis, among these De Archi- tectura. Plinius Nat. Hist, xxxiii—xxxvii. (Cod. Bamberg. Schorn'g Kunstblatt 1833. N. 32—51). J. Chr. Elster Prolog, ad exc. Pliniana ex. 1. xxxv. Programme by Ilelmstadt 1838.