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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    Selinus, p. 78. Gofctling in the Hermes xxxiii. p. 235, Hittorflf main- tains the Ionic capital with Doric entablature on the [supposed] Empe- docleum. Journ, des Sav. 1835. p. 298. Instances of this combination p. 302. (Theron's monument, Gyrene, Jerusalem, Petra.) 11. ^QiNA. Temple of Hellenic Zeus (comp. Ann. d. Inst. i. p. 342) or [rather] of Minerva (Stackelberg, ApoUo's temple at Bassae, App. 3, Ann. d. Inst. ii. p. 319), probably built after the victory ever the Persians, 01. 75 [?], hence it is very like the temple of Theseus (01. 78). Peript. hexast. hyp. The columns 10^ mod. 94 x 45 f. Of yellovyish sandstone, roof and cornice of marble. The cella was painted red, the tympanum sky- blue, yellow and green foliage on the architrave, triglyphs blue, likewise the regula with the drops, the tsenia above them red; the marble tiles with a flower. Ionian Antiq. ii. ch. 6 sq. Wagner, ^ginet. Bildw. p. 217, Cockerell in the Journ. of Science and the Arts, V. vi. n. 12. L. 1819, Descr. de Moree iii. pi. 53. ' lot/.' Aj/.'^oAoy. part i. agt. Zeus Panhellenios Kunstbl. 1836. St. 41 is wanting. Klenze Aphor. Bemerk. s. 159, Taf. i. 1. 1 81. At the same time were executed, especially by the tyrants, buildings worthy of admiration, aqueducts, canals, fountains, and other such works for the benefit of the public. 2 For the exhibition of games, however, they were still con- tented with simple and artless structures, and nowhere is there anything yet said of splendid theatres, hippodromes, and stadia. 1. The Enneakrunos (Callirrhoe) of the Pisistratidae. The fountains of Theagenes. The aqueduct in Samos, carried seven stadia through the mountain by EupoHnus the Megarian, and the mole of the hai-bour, probably s^yet Uo'Avx.qa.nioi. Cloacae (yvovof^oi) of Acragas, ^^iWs?; a large basin for bathing {Kohv/^^-ziS^ot). Diodor. xi, 26. in 01. 75, 1. (Such Kolymbethrse were even said to have been built by Daedalus in Sicily, for instance in the Megarian territory, in the same way that the construc- tion of a natural vapour bath was also ascribed to him, Diodor, iv, 78.) 3. THE PLASTIC ART. A. ITS EXTENDED CULTIVATION. 82. The formative art advanced with extraordinary en- ergy after the 50th Olympiad in the most diiferent districts of Greece, and instead of the uniform plodding of families, gifted individuals, impelled by their talent for art, came for- ward in greater numbers. Sculpture in marble received its first perfection from Dipcenus and Scyllis of Crete; there were scholars of these masters at Sparta and other places. Casting in brass was employed by numerous masters in sta- tues of athletes, heroes and gods, especially in JEgina, an island which stood in close connection with Samos, and at Argos. In like manner there existed at Sicyon a distinguished school of artists which was connected with the Argive -school. About