Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
Catalogue details

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.

    81/664
    n. 29, 276. Its genuineness is doubted by Count Clarac, Melanges d'An- tiq. p. 24. Panofka Cab. Pourtalfes pi. 13. p. 42. The excellent bronze figure of which an account is given §. 422. R. 7. must also be mentioned here as a chef d'oeuvre of an eai-ly Peloponnesian school of art. 2. The Lampadephorus a master-work of early Peloponnesian schools, §. 422. R. 7. 3. Early Greek bronze in Tubingen about 6 in. high, see Griineisen in the Kunstbl. 1835. No. 6 sqq. also publ. separately 8vo. The style iEginetan, the features however more natural, the figure also more slen- der. The k^s-hccffU of Amphiaraus ? Pandarus according to Thiersch, but evidently a charioteer, urging and at the same time restraining. 4. Bronze Minerva from Besangon, hieratic, the head fine, pieces de rapport of silver. 5. Centaurs in bronze §. 389. R. 2. There was an ancient species of working in the same ma- terial—engraved designs—of which very antique specimens, and an excellent monument from the -Slginetic school, have been preserved. 6. Graffito in bronze, a stag torn in pieces by two lions, in a very old style. To be regarded as an example of many similar works in elder Greece. Gerhard, Ant. Bildwerke Cent. I. Tf. 80, 1. 7. Very thin bronze plate with embossed figures, very antique, the eyes of little balls, five men, four women; I explain them to be Argo- nauts and Lemnian women. Cab. Pourtales, vignette. 8. A Bronze Discus from Mgvna, with two figures referable to the Pentathlon, a leaper with leaping-weights and a javeHn-thrower (with the ctyx-vT^iarou ccxovriov), very natural and careful in design. E. Wolf. Ann. d. Inst. iv. p. 75. tv. B. The stone statues of the old style which are best knoAvn, be- sides those which have been already mentioned §. 86, 90, might be classified according to their style, somewhat in this way. 9. Apollo, a colossus, first executed. Ross in the Kunstbl. 1836, No. 12, similar smaller statue at Thera, Ross Kunstbl. 1836, No 18. [His Inselreise i. s. 34. 81.] small curls of stone, tresses on the shoulders, breast full and broad, athletic, striding somewhat with the left leg, as in the colossus of Naxos, and the fragments of the Delian [are these latter suflJicient to deter- mine this 1 The Therieic Apollo, one of the most remarkable monuments of early antiquity, now in the Theseion at Athens, engraved in A. Scholl's Mittheilungen Tf. iv, 8, cf. Schneidewin's Philologus i. s. 344. Not less important the statue of the sedent Athena on the acropolis, A. Scholl Tf. i. with which a smaller supplementing one also on the acropolis cor- responds. Cf. Bull. 1842. p. 186.] 10. Statues in the sacred way of the Branchidaj. Notwithstanding their extreme simplicity and rudeness they come down, according to the inscriptions, as far as the 80th Olympiad. Ionian Antiq. T. 1. new ed. Amalthea iii, 40. C. I. n. 39, and p. xxvi.