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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    represent a goddess stabbing a hero or giant, and the torso of a dying -warrior, especially the latter, are executed in a hard antique style which perhaps belongs to the end of this period. Comp. §. 119. Both temples had metopes only on the east front. P. Pisani, Memorie sulle opere di scultura in Selinunte scoperte. Palermo 1823. B. Klenze in the Kunstblatt 1824, No. 8, comp. Nos. 28, 39, 69, 78. 1826, No. 45. 1826, No. 98. Bottiger's Amalthea iii. p. 307 sqq. Sculptured Metopes discovered among the ruins of Selinus—descr. by S. Angell and Th. Evans 1826. fo. Hittorff, Archit. Ant. de la Sicile pi, 24,25,49. (Fr. Inghirami) Osservazioni Sulle Antich. di Selinunte illustr. del. S. P. Pisani 1825. Monum. Etruschi Ser. vi. t. v. 6. Thiersch, Epc- chen p. 404 sqq. pi. 1. (with drawings by Klenze). R.'Rochette, Journ. des Sav. 1829. p. 387. Brondsted, Voy. en GrSce ii. p. 149. D. A. K, jd. 4,24. 5, 25—27. As to the Metopes on the temple at Paestum (see §. 80. ii, 4), which are related in style to the iEginetan sculptures, there is but little (Phrixus on the ram) that can be recognised j those at Assos (§. 255, 2) are not yet sufficiently known. 3. The .^ginetan sculptures, discovered by various Germans, Danes and EngUshmen (BrSndsted, Koes, CockereU, Foster, von Haller, Linkh, von Stackelberg), have been restored by Thorwaldsen and brought to Munich (Glyptothek n. 55—78). They formed two corresponding groups in the tympana of the temple of Minerva (§. 80) of which that to the west is most complete, but the eastern figures are larger and better exe- cuted. Athena leads the combats of the ^acidae or jSJginetan heroes against Troy, in the west the combat around the body of Patroclus (ac- cording to others that of Achilles, see Welcker, Rhein. M. iii, 1. p. 50), in the east around Oicles who was slain by the Trojans as the companion in arms of Hercules against Laomedon, Comp. Gott. G. A. 1832. p. 1139. In the east Hercules stands in the same relation to Telamon the .^acid—as the archer to the heavy-armed soldier (comp. Find. I. v, 27, also Eurip. Here. Fur. 158),—that Teucrus does to Ajax in the w.est; the costume and form of Hercules correspond to those on the Thasian coins. As the ^acidse here beat the barbarians of Asia, and rescue their countrymen from great peril, so, more recently they aided in battle at Salamis, according to belief (Herod, viii, 64, A.), and their descendants, the ^ginetans contributed their assistance in the salvation of Hellas. The Persian archer-costume of Paris, the leathern coat, the curved cap, &c., point especially to these parallels [1], (Herod, i, 71. v, 49. vii, 61). Vase in antique style, manner, and arming of heroes, among whom there is one very like Paris, Pourtalfes pi. 8, also in Stackelberg's Grabor Tf. 10. These groups, therefore, certainly belong to 01. 75 sqq. [?]. There was gilded bronze added to the marble (many holes enable us to guess where the armour was placed); the hair also was partly of wire. Traces of colour on weapons, clothes, the eye-balls and the lips, not on the flesh. The disposition of the groups is simple and regular [architec- tonico-symmctrical]; as to the style of the workmanship §. 92. On the acrotoria stood female figures in antique drapery and attitude (Moirte, Nika), Kcres?). Wagner's Bcricht iibcr die iEgin. Bildw. mit Kunstgcschichtl. Anui.