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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![p. 231 sqq., distinguishes four breeds of horses, the African, Apulian, Thessalian and Sicilian. The same lately on the animals on the mosaic of Palsestrina; Froriep. Notizen 1834. N. 922 ff. Very erroneous on the whole. The heads from the Parthenon are celebrated §. 118, 2, c, as are also the Venetian horses (compared with the former by Haydon, L. 1818. and Gothe Werke l. s. 118.) St. di San Marco i, 43 sqq. §. 261. R. 2., those of Monte Cavallo §. 414. R. 4., that of Marcus Aurelius §. 204. R. 4. Fal- conet (Euvres ii. p. 1. comp, i. p. 167., those of the Balbi §. 421. R. 4., one in Florence, Gall. St. 80. (comp. 81—86.). Herculanean quadriga of bronze, Ant. Ere. vi, 66. Horse's head from the Colombrano palace at Naples, Gothe W. xxviii. s. 34. M. Borb. iii, 10. [Cicognara Storia d. scult. iii. tv. 19.] Fine horse-head in bronze, gilded, in Augsburg (Raiser §. 264. R. 2.). Fabulous horse (/SgoroVoyj) on coins of Nicaja, Mionn. Suppl. V. tb. 1, 2. p. 148. no. 861., comp. Sueton. Caes. 61. Very fine ones on Thessalian and Sicilian coins. We learn from Xenophon, VirgU, Colu- mella and Oppian what were the notions of the ancients in regard to beauty in horses. Explanation of the muscles and the bas-reliefs on E. Matthaei's model of a horse by Seller and Bottiger. Dr. 1823. Comp. above §. 424, 1. [Ruhl ueber die AutFassung der Natur in der Pferdebildung antiker Plastik, Cassel 1846. 4to.] Mules especially on Sicilian coins. [Eutychus with his ass Nicon, caused by Octavian to be represented in bronze at Nicopolis in commemoration of the lucky omen of meeting them, Plut. Anton. 66., removed to the hippodrome at Constantinople according to a schol. in the Palatine manuscript. Creuzer zur Archaol. i. s. 47.] 3. A dog scratching his ear, an excellent work, in Naples. Splendid molossi, Cavac. i, 6. Mon. Gab. 43. Wolf of Belvedere, a gigantic animal. Myron's cow §. 122, 2. comp. PCI. vii, 31. Toro Farnese §. 157., bronze in Venice, S. Marco i, 47. Bronze in Dresden (after Strongylion 1) Meyer fiesch, Tf 9 c. Fine buUs on coins of Epirus, Gortyna, §. 350. R. 5. 351. R. 4. BuUs which have xccfivu-i on their backs like camels Arist. H. A. viii, 29, gibberes, like those of Cyprus, Serv. Georg. i, 138., Syria, Caria, Plin. viii, 45., deformis scapulis torus eminet, Calpurnius vii, 61., comp. a coin of Gordian at Ephesus in Tristan T. ii. The goat, which figures in. the primitive history of Macedonia, is magnificently represented on coins, Mionnet Suppl. iii. pi. 9, 4—6. Giustiniani goat. Fine bronze of a cha- mois, M. Borb. i, 51. Bronze rams at Palermo, Gothe Werke xxvii, s. 121. [both from Syracuse perfectly alike, and two similar ones are said to have been sent to Spain in the time of the Spanish supremacy.] On the aries gutturatus, in Florence and Rome, a treatise by Ad. Fabroni. Calydo- nian hoar, in Byzantium, mentioned by Nicetas p. 357. comp. Anth. Pal. XV, 51.; a very fine one, M. Flor. iii, 69. Fine wild-swine on coins of Clusium, .ffitolia, N. Brit. 5, 25. A sow suckUng, PCI. vii, 32.; comp. §. 418. R. 3. Swine, resembling those of China, on gems, Impr. d. Inst, i, 51, 52, Sow with young, ibid, iii, 55, Lions at Venice from the Peirseus of Athens, S, Marco ii, 48, 49, §. 253. R. 2. Farnesian lion, M. Borb. ix. front. Splendid figures on coins and gems, comp. Jen. LZ. Erg. 1815. s. 290, Lion hewn out of the rock, in Ceos, in Brondsted Voy, i, p. 11. Similar ones here and there in Greece. On the tombs of heroes (Ptolem. Hcphacst. p. 147, Bekker), for instance, of Hector on the tab, Iliaca and of Leonidas at Thermopylae, Lion on coins of Miletus 'Kiuv ylyxg. Anthol. Bal. vi, 266. J. de Witte Ann. vi. p. 343, Lioness with a young lioa](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0643.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
