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

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    CHARACTER OF THE PERIOD. 4a acters (C. I. n. 7) may be assigned to about the 50th Olympiad; besides monstrous animal figures there is painted here a boar chased by heroes. Comp. §. 321. 3. A few examples of the black figures in a disproportioned style : the warrior going to battle, Millingen Collect, de Coghill, pi. 36; Dio- nysus with two Satyrs, and Apollo with two Horae, pi, 37 (D. A. 16. 17); Dionysus, Hermes and the Horae sitting on chairs, pL 38. 75.* Particular attention is due, at the same time, to the exaggerated character in forms and gestures exhibited in sub- jects derived from the Dionysian cycle, and which take up a large portion of ancient vase-painting. From the peculiar feelings which were connected with this worship emanated, in the formative as well as the musical arts, grand and ele- vated productions on the one hand, and works of a grotesque and caricature-like character on the other. The latter sort naturally found acceptance first in the infancy of art; how- ever, they probably contributed not a little to a freer and bolder movement in art. SECOND PERIOD. FROM THE 50th TO THE 80th OLYMPIAD (680—460 YEARS BEEORE CHRIST). 1. THE CHARACTER OF THE PERIOD IN GENERAL. 76. About the 50th Olympiad several external circum- 1 stances arose which were advantageous to art: closer inter- course with the rulers and people of Asia and Egypt; greater 2 commercial wealth [§. 98]; the endeavours of the tyrants to 3 occupy the attention, the hands and the wealth of their sub- jects by means of splendid works. 1. Croesus, 01. 56, I.—58, 3, his consecrated gifts at Delphi. Greeks served with Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, 01. 44. Psammetichus king by the assistance of the lonians and Carians, 27, 2. Amasis the Phil- hellene, 52, 3.—63, 3. Naucratis, Hellenion. 2. Flourishing trade of Corinth, Mgina, Samos, Miletus, Phocaea. Gold, which was scarce in Greece, now became gradually more plentiful. Athenseus vi. p. 231 sqq. Bockh, Pub. Econ, of Athens i. p. 6 sqq. Lewis.