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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![interpretation), Adm. 59. Zoega Bass. 12.; L. 766. Clarac pi. 203. The Aldobrandini marriage (§. 319. R. 7.) unites the bride in the thalamus whom Charis has anointed and Aphrodite (Peitho) persuaded, with the adjustment of the bath and the preparation for the hymenaeus, comp. §. 378, R. 4. The lying in, Adm. 65. Birth of a child, the Pare* cast the nativity, L. 469. Clarac pi. 159. [comp, the lying in of Alcmene, of Leda in bas-reliefs.]—Two nests with children on a tree, PCI, vii, 9.; wall- painting in Pompeii, Gell. N. Pomp. 48., an Idyll according to Hirt, Ann. d. Inst. i. p. 251.—Eros and Pysche on the sardonyx-vessel §. 315. R. 5., comp. §. 391. R. 9.—Cadmus' and Peleus' marriages serve as mythologi- cal representatives of real historical ones. [Zoega Bassir. i. p. 262.] 5. Thorn. Bartolini Antiq. vet. puerperii 1675. Offering a child to a xovqoroocpoi decc §. 96. No. 19. Bas-relief from Sigeum, Ion. Ant. i. vign. 2.; from Troas, in the L. 621. Panofka Ann. d. Inst. i. p. 396. tv. 9, Clarac pi. 203.; sarcophagus relief in the Campo Santo at Pisa, Rosellini Ann, vi. p. 236. tv. d. agg. F. Marriage, and training of children on the sarcophagus, Guattani 1784. p. xHii., comp. R. Rochette M. I. p. 406. Course of hfe of a child, R. Rochette pi. 77, 1, 2. Rearing up and edu- cation, Winck. M. I. 184, Youths wrapped in the manly himation, at the back of numerous vase-paintings, Bottiger Vasengem. ii. s. 37. §. 337. R, 5. Also with armour on vases from Volci, Ann. iii. p. 156., in reference to the solemn assumption of armour by the ephebi. A Roman youth receives the toga pura, as it seems, in the relief Wicar iv, 16. Scenes in the women's apartment, embroidering-frames, lute, mir- rors, spinning Stackelb. Tf. 33. 34. Female bath, douche Tf. 3 b, [Lady and her maid, Ternite Pomp, Wandgem, 2d Ser, Tf, 3, a poetizing maiden Tf. 1. and so forth. Panofka Griechinnen und Griechen. Griech. Frauen- leben mit 56 bildl. Darstell. B. 1844. 4to.] Love incantations, Tischb. iii, 44.—We must here by way of appen- dix refer to the great number of obscene representations (espjecially the Veneris figurse, on pictures, gems, coins, lasciva numismata, Martial viii, 78.) to which also mythology gave frequent occasion, see §. ] 37. R 3. It is remarkable that the Volcentine vases usually represent obscene subjects in the oldest style. On the pornographers of the later times §. 163, 4, 430. But other scenes also of domestic life, such as the 1 Bath, which particularly suited the voluptuous art of later vases and Etruscan mirrors, as well as all sorts of Games and diversions, especially when they gave scope for a peculiar de- velopment of human characters, did not lie out of the sphere of ancient art; hut it quite departed from its destination, 2 when—as in pictures at Pompeii—it painted on the wali libraries, dainty dishes, the house-dog, which were actually wanting, and thus sank to a mere substitute of reality. 1. Boys bathing in a public bath AHM02IA, Tischb. i, 68. A private hth is designated in like manner on a vase by lAIA, R. Rochette M. I. 236. Bath and palajstra are often combined on vases. Women bath- ing, Tischb. iii, 35. and often, also with ministering Erotes, in vase- paintings as well as mirror-designs. What Archilochus says Pr. 7. in Vaee-paintingS: sxo'^au fict^Uu /nvQohr,; hi^rriTO, iolvii Tt KuUv civ^os. ' A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0639.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
