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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![giving of a family to Esculapius and Ilygieia?) and 71,1. p. 420. Doubt- less then to the non traditi vultus belong Lysippus' Seven wise men and JEsop (Anth. Pal. Plan. 332), after which may have been executed the herma3 of Cassius' viUa, with inscription beneath, and the jEsop of the Villa Albani without any. The figure of Bolon also at Salamis which ^schines declared to be very old, was not raised 50 years before Demos- thenes, De falsa leg. p. 420. Of Lysippus' Socrates, Diog. L. ii, 43. comp. Vise. pi. 18. (On the gems of Socrates, which are for the most part alle- gorical or fantastical, Chifiiet's Socrates). The wealth of the Greeks even in statues of these early times is shown especially by Christod. and the enumeration of female statues by Greek masters in Talian adv. Gr. 62. p. 168, 5. On sculptors of literary men Plin. xxxv, 2. xxxiv, 19, 26 sqq. comp. §. 121. R. Si Busts of learned men as ornaments of museums, probably in those of Alexandria and Pergamon, as well as that of Asinius PoUio, then also in private collections, Pers. Prol. 5. Juv. ii, 4. vii, 29. Lipsius De biblioth. 9. Gurlitt s. 240. comp. s. 305. R. 4.—On the delicate percep- tion of character see especially Sidon. Apollin. Epist. ixj 9. The geometer Euclid was sculptured with fingers apart and arched, the finger-counting Chrysippus with his bent together, Aratus as singer of the stars (although indeed only from books) with neck bent backwards. The two last are seen thus on coins of Soli (Vise. pi. 57, 1.) hence Visconti recognises Chrysippus in a bust in the Villa Albani. As to philosophers we know from coins Pythagoras {Hv^xyo^tis '2cc~ fiicov, Cab. d'Allier pi. 16, 16. Comp. §. 181. R. 1.), Heraclitus and Anaxa- goras (Vise, pi. A, 2.), from undoubted busts Socrates, Plato, Carneades, Theon of Smyrna, Aristotle (statue in the Spada palace), Theophrastus, Antisthenes, Diogenes (interesting statue in V. Albani); Zeno the Stoic, (whose bust at Naples Visconti takes for the Eleatic Zeno, assigning to the stoic another unauthenticated one; [Leucippus, Avellino Opusc. i. p, 198.] the excellent statue of an elderly man in the tribon, M. Cap. i, 90. Bouill. ii, 26., belongs to neither), Chrysippus, Poseidonius, Epicurus and Metrodorus, Hermarchus. As to poets we find on coins Alcseus, Sappho (the busts are uncer- tain, and the vase at Vienna published by Steinbuchel, Vienna 1821, Mil- lingen Un. 33, 34. Maisonneuve 81., although the inscription may be ge- nuine, [a clay relief from Melos in the Brit. Mus. represents the same scene] cannot however be regarded as a portrait, which is furnished on the contrary by the bronze coin published by Allier de Hauteroche, Notizie intorno a Saffo di Ereso. 1822. comp. Plehn Lesbiaca p. 189 sqq. Gerhard Kunstbl. 1825. No. 4. 6. Brondsted Voy. p. ii. p. 281.), Anacreon, Stesichorus (exactly after the statue mentioned by Cic. Verr. ii, 35.). [Anacreon with his little dog, vase in the Brit. Mus. Sam. Birch, Archaeol. L. xxxi. p. 256. Repetition in Rome, Bull. 1846. p. 81. Cydias with a lute XAIPE XAIPE KTAIA2, on a vase Catal. Magnoncour, comp. Getting. Anz. 1840. s. 697 flF, Two statues found at Monte Calvo in 1836, and belonging probably to the nine Muses are Anacreon and pro- bably TyrtEEUS, both in the Borghese Mus. Supposed busts of Anacreon Neapels Ant. Bildw. s. 100. no. 343. Another M. Worsl. iii, 3.] In mar- ble works, Sophocles (from the Prytaneion of Athens? M. Worsl. i, 2,1.), [the splendid statue in the Lateran and pictures M. d. I. iv, 27. 28. Ann.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0618.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
