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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    the end of the period the plastic art also rose at Athens to a more flourishing condition. [In Chios sculpture goes back to the beginning of the Olympiads in the fiimily of Bupalus.] Artists of this period whose names are known:— The Daadalida) Dipqbnus and Scyllis (marmore sculpendo primi omnium inclaruerunt) 01. 50 according to Pliny. They also worked in wood and ivory at different places in Greece (Sicyon, Argos, Cleonae, Ambracia ?)., [Their Artemis, Hercules, and Athene appear to have been removed to Asia by Cyrus when he made war on Croesus, in Armenia according to Moses of Chorene, as is detailed by the author Ztschr. f. d. A. W. 1835. no. 110. ■ Did Croesus, then, first obtain them from the Sicyonians?] Tec- taeus and Angelion, their scholars about 01. 55. Paus. ii, 32. Dory- cleidas, Dontas (or Medon), Theocles of Lacedsemon, carvers in wood and toreutse, scholars of Dipoenus and Scyllis about 55. Paus. v, 17. vi, 19. Endoeus (§. 70, Rem. 2) about 55. Perillus or Perilaus, brass-caster (the bull of Phalaris) 55. Bupalxts and Athenis, enemies of Hipponax (01. 60), sculptors of a race of artists in Chios, sons of Anthermus (Archennus), the son of Micciades, the son of Malas (about 40) according to Pliny. Welcker, Hipponax, p. 9. [Thiersch Epochen, s. 192. Bion of Clazomenae or Chios, clya.'hfAciroTroio; in Hipponax according to Diogenes iv, 58, changed by Siliig into Hippocrates.] Callon of ^gina, a pupil of Tectaeus and Angelion, brass-caster (^ginetica aeris temperatura, Plin.) about 01. 60—65, although some brought the tripods made by him and Gitiadas into connexion with the Messenian war (Paus. iii, 18, 5. iv, 14, 2). Gitiadas of Lacedjemon, very probably his contemporary (Welcker, Hyperb. Roemische Studien, p. 262, opposed to this), a worker in brass (at the same time a Doric poet). Syadras and Chartas of Lacedsemon, brass-casters 01. 60 (Sparta sends to Croesus, 01. 58, a large cauldron with figures, ^^S<«, on the rim, Herod, i, 70). Dameas of Crotona, brass-caster, 65. Eucheirus of Corinth, a scholar of Syadras and Chartas, brass-caster, 66. CANAcngs op Sicyon, carver in wood, brass-cutter, and toreutes, 01. 67—73 (Schorn, Studien, p. 199, Kunstblatt 1821, no. 16. Thiersch, Epochen, p. 142, comp. below, §. 86). Aristocles his brother, brass-caster (Sicyon diu fuit officinarum omnium metallorum patria, Plin.). Aristocles of Cydonia before 01. 71 (Paus. v. 25, 6). Eutelidas and Chrysothemis of Argos {rsx,vccv iilon; ix, '!r^ori(>av), brass- casters, 70. Antenor, Euphranor's son (C. I. ii, 340) of Athens, brass- caster, 70. Arcesilaus, son of Aristodicus, about 70. Stomius, brass- caster, 72. Damophilus and Gorgasus, workers in clay and painters in Italy, 72. Synnoon of iEgina, scholar of Aristocles of Sicyon, brass- caster, 72. Clearchus of Rhegium, brass-caster, 72. Glaucias of iEgina, brass-caster, 73—75. Ascarus of Thebes, brass-caster, before 75 according to the opinion of Pausanias. Ageladas op Argos, brass-caster, 01. 68— 81 (the author's Commentatt. de Phidia i. §. 6—8. Welcker in the Kunstblatt 1827, No. 81), formed three muses jointly with Canachus and Aristocles (Anthol. Pal. ii. p. 692. Planud. n. 220). Anaxagoras of .(Egina, brass-caster, 75. Diyllus, Amyclseus, Chionis, Corinthians, brass- casters not long before 75. Aristomedon of Argos, brass-caster about the same time, Aristomedes and Socrates of Thebes, workers in marble, 75. Menaechmus and Soidas of Naupactus, toreutfe, about 75. Critias of Athens {vmiuT/ig, probably K-hnnwxf? in Lemnos), brass-caster, 75—83 D