Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
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1852
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    terest in the topography of Rome (from Fl. Biondo 1449 downwards; comp. §. 258, 3); but hence also the mania for always interpreting ancient works of ai-t from Roman history:—Andr. Fulvius Raphael's contem- porary, was the first that took the name of antiquary.—Hadr. Junius (1511—1575). Fulv. Ursinus (1529—1600). Jacques Spon (with Wheler in Greece 1675) subdivides the whole materials in a rough way into Numismato-Epigrammato-Architectono-Icono-Glypto-Toreumato-Biblio- Angeiography. Miscellanea antiquit. Lugd. Bat. 1685. Recherches Curi- euses d'Antiquity contenues en plusieurs dissertations—par. M. Spon. Lyon 1683. A similar treatment prevails in the writings of Laur. Beger, Thesaurus Brandeburg. Berl.1696. In Montfaucon's Antiquite expliquee et representee en figures, 1st pt. 1719, 2d ed. 1722. 6 vols. f. (Supplement in 5 vols. 1724), art is merely employed to present to view the externals of ancient life. This antiquarian spirit also prevails in Ernesti's ArchaB- ologia Literaria (ed. alt. by G. H. Martini. Leipz. 1790), and Christ's Abhandlungen iiber die Litteratur und Kuntswerke, vornehmlich des Alterthums (edited by Zeune. Leipz. 1776). Works of art were only regarded as monuments of commemoration like inscriptions. Notices of discoveries from a Manuscript of Ghibroti, Bullett. d. Inst. 1837, p. 67. 3. The earlier works with engravings of statues are at the present day only of importance in regard to the history of their preservation and restoration. At first insignium virorum imagines were in especial request (after coins and busts). Of more value are Engravings by Agos- tino Veneto (de' Musis) after drawings by Marc. Ant., Bartsch Peintre graveur xiv. p. 176. Lafrerii Speculum Rom. magnitudinis Romas [plates engraved singly from 1544^75, Aldroandi statue di Roma 1556.] Ant. statuarum urbis Romse icones. R. ex typis Laur. Vaccarii 1584. T. ii. 1621 ex typis Gott. de Scaichis. Cavaleriis Antiques statuse urbis Romae (1585), Boissard's Antiqu. Romanse, 6 vols. f. 1579—1627. Franc. Perrier's Segmenta nobil. signorum et statuarum (1638), and Icones et segmenta Ulustr. e marmore tabularum (1645). Insigniorum statuarum urbis Romas icones by lo. lac. de Rubeis (1645). Signorum vet. icones by Episcopius (Jan de Bischop). Gio. Batt. Rossi Antiq. statuarum urbis Romae i. et ii. lib. 1668 f. Sandrart's Teutsche Academie der Bau- Bild-und Malereikunst. 4 vols, f Niirnberg 1675-76. The designs and engravings of Pietro Santi Bartoli, mostly accompanied with explana- tions by G. P. Belloni, the Columnse, Lucernae, the Pitture, the Admir- anda Romanorum antiquitatis (an excellent collection of reliefs, first ed. by Jac. de Rubeis, second by Domen. de Rubeis R. 1693, especially valuable) and others form an epoch. Raccolta di statue antiche da Domen. de Rossi, illustr. di Paolo Aless. Maffei. R. 1704. Statuas insig- niorcs by Preisler, 1734. Ant. Franc. Gori (the Etruscan antiquary's) Museum Florentinum, 6 vols. fo. 1731—1742. Recueil des Marbres antiques—h, Dresde by le Plat. 1733 (bad). Antiche statue, che neU' antisala della Kbreria di S. Marco e in altri luoghi pubblici di Venezia si trovano, by the two Zancttis, 2 vols. fo. 1740. 43. Mich. Ang. Causoi (de la Chaussc) Romanum Museum. R. 1746, a motley antiquarian collection, (GrjBvii Thesaur. T. v. xii.). [Prange Magazin der Alterth. Halle 1783 f.] Of the works on architectural remains especially: Les rcstes de I'an- cicnne Rome, drawn and engraved by Bonavcnt. d'Ovcrbekc. Amsterd.