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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    von Schelling 1817. Hirt in Wolf's Analekten H. iii. p. 167 (where most has been done towards explanation and determination of time). [Comp. Getting. Anz. iai8. St. 115 ff.] Cockerell §. 80. Rem. ii, c. Leake, Morea ii. p. 467. Thiersch, Amalthea i. s. 137 ff. Gothe's Kunst u. Alterthum iii. s. 116 ff. D. A. K. Tf. 6—8, B. Edw. Lyon, Outlines of the Mgina. marbles. Liverpool, 1829. [90*. A place beside the statues of -Slgina may worthily be given to the reliefs of the earlier large monument of Xan- thus in Lycia, which could not have been erected after the capture of the city by Harpagus, 01. 58, 3, nearly the time when the former were probably produced. For when that event took place, all the Xanthians, not excepting even the absent heads of families, perished (Herod, i, 176); and, after- wards, when Lycia became a tributary province, and, although it was intrusted with the government of its cities, which pro- bably formed a confederation even at that time, there was however a Persian agent in the capital, Xanthus, it is very unlikely that so important a monument should have been raised to one of the subjugated. Besides, notwithstanding all the diiference of the figures, the antique severity of the style, subdued by a pervading grace, the admirable simplicity and truth and the already acquired certainty and delicacy of execu- tion, give considerable probability to the supposition that the Lydian work was produced nearly at the same time with the other at ^gina; but whether it was by a native school or under the influence of the workshop of Chios, which was much famed at the time, or of the scholars of Dipoenus and Scyllis, is a point which will never be made out. Art at this stage, as we learn from the later Italian, can at the most different points having but slight connection with one an- other, develope from within outwards the wonderful agree- ment which we observe between these Lydo-Grecian works and the Grecian monuments otherwise known to us. How far inferior to this monument are the frieze-pieces from Assos. We are indebted to Sir Charles Fellows for the surprising extension of the history of art by means of Lydian antiquity. For the monu- ments collected by him in that country, where he made this discovery in his first journey in 1838, a large separate building has been erected at the British Museum, to which he presented them. The Xanthian marbles, their acquisition, &c. L. 1843. See engraving of the reUefs in Fellows' Journal written during an excursion in Asia Minor, L. 1839. p. 231 and a better one in his Account of Discoveries in Lycia, L. 1841. p. 17o' repeated in Gerhard's Archajologische Zeitung 1843. Tf. 4. S. 49. still more improved and corrected. M. d. L iv. tv. 3. with which we should take in connexion the extremely profound description and ex- planation of E. Braun, Ann. xvi. p. 133. Bull 1845. p 14-, and m the N. Rhein. Mus. 1844. S. 481—490. comp. Gerhard Archaol. Zcit. 184o b. 69. This monument, like fou^ others, mostly found in Xanthus itself, is a