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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![G18 the giving away the bride by Hera, tlie goddess of marrla^re also hgures prominently in several works of art, such as must 4 have been executed by an artist of the best Greek period. The Koman sarcophagi represent marriage in a similar manner by Juno Pronuba uniting the spouses; besides, Aphrodite and leitho, and in later antiquity, Eros and Psyche, were intro- 5 duced as secondary personages. Further, there are not want- ing sculptures which indicate in its main points the life of the child through the period of rearing up, and that of the youth till the age of manhood. 1. Attic maidens bringing the bridal bath from Callirrhoe, in vases from Volci, §. 99. No. 13. (the right explanation of these was already given Gott. G. A. 1831. s. 1331. and was afterwards confirmed by the inscrip- tion KALIPEItPENE), also on gems Lipp. iii, 388. 89. Young man in the bath, splendid early Grecian work, from Volci, Impr. d. Inst, iii, 46. The bridal procession in cars, as it is described by Homer and He- siod, together with the hymenceus represented by Apollo as citharoedus, combined with the comus of Dionysus—on many old vase-paintings (a Sicilian one published by Maggiore) [1832J, especially of Yolci, Ann. iii. p. 162. Leading the bride to the house of the bridegroom, Apollo and Ar- temis in advance Stackelb. Tf. 32. (also in Millingen Point, de V. 43.) Hymen^os very complete in Stackelb. Tf. 42. [Poll, iii, 40. Hesych. ayayi] On other matrimonial subjects of these vases (kisses, presents, lyre-playing) Ann. iii. p. 58. The Campanian and Apulian marriage-vases represent especially the adorning of the bride under the direction of Aphrodite. The Grecian bride in her dressing-room, Bottiger Vasengem. i. s. 139. 2. Several vases of this kind are given by R. Rochette M. I. i. as the rape of Thetis. Youths carrying away maidens in chariots, Millingen Cogh. 1 sqq. Comp. Gerh. Prodr. s. 76. 3. The giving away the bride in the genuine Attic style, Lipp. Suppl. 394.; the relief Adm. 67. indicates the same original with this; in that in Guattani 1785. p. xxxi. Hera is omitted, but persons delivering mar- riage gifts are added, from Greek compositions. Marriage presents, fine relief in Guattani p. Ixi. [R. Gironi Le ISTozze de' Greci, MHano 1819 Vase-picture, also in the Bibl. Ital. 1819 March (where, 1820 Febr. p. 228., another in the possession of Santangelo with marriage ceremonies is described); the paranymphos leads the bride by the hand, who is push- ed forward by the pronuba to the husband who is armed with a lance; Apollo with laurel branch, Artemis with bow and quiver, and a woman who speaks to him with the spear, perhaps the mother of the bride.] 4. Roman reliefs, in which Juno Pronuba brings or keeps together the spouses, Admir. Rom. 56. 65. Brit. Mus. x, 60., as Commodus and Crispina on coins, Vaillant De Camps p. 45, 1. Exactly the same on a larger sarcophagus in the Vatican, Gerh. Ant. Bildw. 74. [Large sarco- phagus from Monticelli Mon. d. I. iv, 9. Ann. xvi. p. 186. E. Braun.] Marriage of the later Roman period (a boy introduced with a fruit apron), L. 492. Clarac pi. 203. Marriage sacrifice with favourable omens, Adm.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0638.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
