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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![giires of the Dioscuri, their heads, starred hats and the like from coins, G. M. 624^29. Fine Dioscurian head, Impr. d. Inst, i, 8. As horsemeu on many coins, holding palms, with inscription, on coins of Tarentum, Millingen Anc. Coins L 12. Often on Roman denarii as horsemen, riding beside or away from one another (their lot leads them to opposite sides). The two horse-tamers of Monte Cavallo /Vtto/? f/.x^fi»t^ouTi—18 feet high, splendid figures in Lysippian proportions [?], executed at Rome, pro- bably after the time of Augustus, from Greek originals, the inscriptions without significance, the horses treated as ■parerga; on the erection Lettere of Canova and P. Vivenzio, Sickler Alman. ii. s. 247. Tf. 19. 20.; besides Race. 11-13. Piranesi Stat. 4, Morghen Princ. 25. 26. Ed. Winck. V. s. 463. vi, ii. s. 73. Meyer Horen i, ii. a. 42. Wagner Kunstbl. 1824. No. 93 ff.—are recognised as Dioscuri especially from the fashion of the hair; [Kunstmus. zu Bom s. 133-150. Fogelberg. Ann. xiv. p. 194. Ruhl Pferdebildung antiker Plastik 1846. s. 33. 46. Fo- gelberg the Swede as well as Tieck in Kugler's Museum B. 1836. St. 6. assigns the colossi to the time of Tiberius. Phidias' alter colossicua nudus was in Rome.] Very similar figures on gems, Raponi P. gr. t. 5,9. and in reliefs, for example, R. Rochette M. I. pi. 72. The Capitoline horse-tamers are less excellent; Polydeuces is distinguished by the curl- ing hair of Zeus, and pancratiastic ears. The horse-leading Dioscuri in the relief M. Chiar. 9. have almost Phrygian caps, comp. G. di Fir. 98, and the wall-painting M. Borb. ix, 36. [Cabott Stucchi figur. tv. 2., standing beside the horses, above them genii with raised and inverted torches.] The Athenian Anakes as youths armed with spears standing round an altar, Cayl. vi, 47. CataL de Chois. Gouflf. p. 34. comp. C. I. No. 489. Similar M. Nan. 234., where there is a half-moon over their altar. In chlamydes with parazonia, on a sardonyx as amulet, Eckhel P. gr. 28. As armed youths often on Etruscan mirrors; in heroic companionship, Inghir. ii, 48. G. M. 409*, Castor is distinguished by equestrian orna- ments from the naked boxer Polydeuces (comp. §. 412. R. 1. Statue of Pol. boxing? Bouill. i, ].). Polydeuces as boxer, bronze from Paramythia P. Knight Spec, ii, 22. Castor with sepulchral urn, scarab. Impr. d. I. iii, 5. In Etr. bronzes, for example MicaU tv. 35, 13. with swan-heads on their hats (they are presented so, with inscriptions, on an Etruscan mirror according to Gerhard's account). [Dioscuri Gerh. Etr. Sp. i, 45— 54. 58. 59.] The Dioscuri beside Hades on lamps (§. 407. R. 2.), Bartoli ii, 8.; in representations of men's destinies as symbols of rising and set- ting, §. 397. R. 2. and 3. §. 400. R. 1. Two urns entwined with serpents ^ on Lacedaemonian coins as symbols of the Dioscuri, N. Brit. 8,1. Thanks- giving of one escaped from the dangers of the sea in an Anakeion, ex- pressed on a reUef which was found at Este in 1710, now in Verona (from the Museum Silvestrium), where the Dioscuri are represented by youths with oval hats and two diotae. Com. Cam. Silvestrii Rhodigini in anagly- phum Gr. interpretatio posthuma. R. 1720. Comp. Thiersch Reisen s. 70. The so-called Cabiri, stiff figures with oval hats, are ako better called anaktes, Ant. Ere. vi, 23. 416. The mythic cycle of the Trojan war was held in 1 especial favour by ancient art, and larger compositions were introduced even on floors, goblets, and armour, as they were afterwards on relief tablets, which, with their small figures](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0599.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
