Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.
- Karl Otfried Müller
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(Ser. 6. no. 1342.) he holds his lance towards the Chimaera—here with the heads of lion and goat, beside a tree—which seizes an overthrown warrior with its lion-claws, while five others on both sides encounter it, Rv. four naked youths, Neapcl's A. Bildw. s. 264; Cab. Durand no. 248. on a Sabine vase B. on Pegasus is surrounded with rays, and a Dioscu- rian cap is hung up, as also in M. d. I. iv, 21., of the Chimaera there is no- thing visible but the lion- and goat-heads, Rv. Sphinx between two satyrs Ann. d. I. x. p. 274. A composition abounding in figures on the Lamberti vase, now in Carlsruhe, M. d. I. ii, 50., Ann. ix. p. 219., where the Chi- maera has three heads, and on the one in Berlin no. 1022., Gerh. Apul. Vas. Tf. 8., relief on a tomb in Tlos §. 128.*—4th. B. fights against the enemies of lobates, on a high narrow crater only half-preserved on a white winged horse with shield and lance, of the five warriors one stoop- ing under him reaches the shoulder of the horse, while another covers hira with his shield, above the latter another threatens B. with his sword, the two on the right side are wanting, a swan bites at the lance near the hand, a panther beneath, Rv. combatants. Battle with the Solymi also Cab. Durand no. 249. 1374?—5th. B. returned to Argos, crater in the Bourbon Museum, armed with two lances, is before the door, in which Sthenebosa stands,,a mirror in her hand ; this is the meeting again, after Eurip., Griech. Tragoedien s. 780 f. Tischbein iii, 39., on the opposite side from B.'s leave-taking with Proetus pi. 38, Stheneboea lifts her hands in amazement when the youth stands again before her, a co- lumn expresses the palace, a darting Eros the love of Stheneboea. Bottiger Kl. Schriften ii, 256. supposes it to be the earlier, first arrival of B., but for a woman who was stiU a stranger to him the reception of the guest is not so suitable.—6th. B. has carried olf his lover on Pegasus, to punish her love for him with drowning, the ancient punishment of unfaithful wives, thus carrying his virtue still higher than the old fable did; she is already hurled down head-foremost, and the rider, who is himself not unmoved, holds his hand before his eyes. The probably Lucanian vase, found in Magna Grecia, is polychrome, like that with the flame-consumed Alcmene §. 411. R. 2., two Calydonian hunts, &c. and belongs to the Marchese Rinuccini, Inghirami Vasi fitt. i, 3. Gr. Trag. s. 782.—7th. B. watering Pegasus at a fountain, after the discovery of which as Hy- ginus says P. A. ii, 18, he wished to ascend to heaven (the illusion must have been communicated to him that a certain spring had the virtue to strengthen him so wondrously, comp. Griech. Trag. s. 787.) E. Braun Zwolf Basrel. f. 1.—8th. B. thrown from Pegasus, on the engraved stone above referred to but not Cab. Durand no. 249. Rv. as the horse must necessarily have been winged.—9th. Megapenthes, the son of Sthene- boea, attempts to murder B. after he was thrown from Pegasus in his flight to heaven, and the latter is saved by his son Glaucus. One of the bas-reUefs on the temple in Cyzicus Anthol. Pal. p. 63. no. 15.]. Fejasus tended by the nymphs, on Corinthian coins and gems, Thorlacius de Pegasi mythol. 1819. Bartoli Nason. 20, comp. R. Rochette, Ann. d. Inst. i. p. 320., also §. 252. R. 3. CIdmcera, Etruscan §. 172. R. 3. Coins of Sicyon §. 132. R. 1. [On several hundred monuments, observes Vis- conti ap. Clavier ApoUod. ii. p. 522, from the bronze ones in Florence onwards the head of the goat invariably rises out of the back of the animal: otherwise the poets, see Heyne ad Apollod. p. 114.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0596.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
