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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![xviii. tv. E p.] Euripides (a statuette important in a literary point of view L. 65. Winck. M. I. 168. Clarac pi. 294.) [Statue standing Chia- rara. ii, 23. sitting in Dresden, Leplat pi. iii. Clarac pi. 841. n. 2098 D. many busts, Euripides is also in several instances united with Soph, in double busts; likewise in relief in a goblet from Athens Bull. 1842. p. 172.] Menander and Poseidippua (statues full of life and truth, but of a certain effeminacy and flabbiness, PCI. iii, 15. 16. BouiU. ii, 24. 25. [Clarac pi. 841.] Schlegel Dramat. Poesie i, at the conclusion), Moschion. LClarac pi. 840 D. no. 2122 A.] In orators, busts of Isocrates, Lysias, Demosthenes and .SiSchines (also in Millingen Un. Mon, ii, 9.; we recognise in him o xaAoV afin Uke manner as we see in Demosthenes the fiery and impassioned patriot; Btatue of Demosthenes, now in the Vat., G. M. Wagner Ann. d. I. viii. d. 159. [M. Chiaram. ii, 24, On a bust Avellino 1841. comp. N. Rhein. Mus. iii. p. 274. Schroder Ueber die AbbUd. des Demosth. Braunschweig 1842.]), Leodamas. Historians: Herodotus and Thucydides. Rhetori- cians: Epaphroditus, M^ms. Aristides. (On the Vatican statue of API2- TIAHS 2MTPNE02 see Mai script, vet. nova coll. i. p. li. Gerhard, Beschr. Roms ii, ii. s. 330.). A victorious rhetorician from Alexandria, Amalth. iii. Tf. 8. Herodes Atticus from Marathon M. Pourtal^s pi. 37. Physicians: Hippocrates, Asclepiades and others (especially in minia- tures). The astronomer Hipparchus on coins of Nicsea, with the globe, Mionnet Suppl. v. p. 91. [Visconti Iconogr. Gr. pi. 26. Measuring with the compasses on the globe with the ecliptic and the equatorial circle, Urlichs Dreizehn Gemmen aus der Sammlung der Frau Mertens-Schaaf- hausen Bonn 1846. no. 8.] 6. Among the Athenian statesmen there are undoubted portraits of Miltiades (comp. Pans, x, 10.), Themistocles (however what Visconti pro- duces is still doubtful; honorary statue of a statesman sitting, in Lord Egremont's collection, Spec. ii. 7.; on the other hand a bearded head with sailor's cap and laurel wreath, with individual features, on staters of Lampsacus is without doubt Themistocles, the ancient lord of Lampsacus), Pericles (after Ctesilaus §. 121., the helmet covers the pointed head, a bust in Munich 186. shows also the Ionic fashion of wearing the hair among the elder Athenians), Alcibiades who was often sculptured in his time, but whose herma PCI. vi, 31., little corresponds to the fame of his beauty, comp. Welcker Zeitschr. s. 457. Aspasia is the first woman of whom there exists an authentic likeness, in a bust of the PCI. vi, 30. The noble figure M. Borb. i, 50. Neapels Ant. s. 105. is arbitrarily called Aris- tides. It is .^schines, see Vescovali in the Bull. 1835. p. 47. The sup- jiosition that the fine statue PCI. ii, 43, Bouill. ii, 23. is Phocion has been abandoned by Visconti himself, comp. vii. p. 100.—The statue of the Spar- tan Lycurgus PCI. iii, 13. is very doubtful. On Alexander §. 129, 4. 158, 2. [Clarac pi. 837—840 A.] Alexander's likeness was even much worn as an amulet, Trebell. Trig. 14. A coflFer with Alexander's head at Dessau (with ram's horns and diadem), Kunstbl. 1830. No. 37. The contorniati also represent his procreation by the dragon. 7. The coins of Hiero and Gelon were either struck in after times in nonour of the tyrants (according to Visconti), or belong entirely to Hiero II. and Gelon II., the son of Hiero II.; those ascribed to Theron are partly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0619.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
