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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    6. Hermes with the three goddesses hastening to Paris, as on the coffer of Cypselus, Paus. v, 19, 1. Similar to the preceding vase: paral- lel direction of the limbs; regularly folded drapery, slender proportions. Millingen, Coll. de Coghill, pi. 34. 6. Hercules with the lion's hide, but at the same time a Boeotian shield, violently springing upon Cycnus (comp. the statue on the Amy- clffian throne, Paus. iii, 18), in Millingen, Un. Mon. S. i. pi. 38. 7. Achilles dragging the body of Hector (in gigantic form) behind his chariot, often on Sicilian vases, in R. Rochette, Mon. In. i. pi. 17, 18. On a similar one at Canino the small winged figure of a hero represents the. eidolon of Patroclus, R. Rochette, p. 220. 8. Departure of Eriphyle from Amphiaraus and Adrastus, two groups on a Magna Grecian vase. Scotti, lUustrazioni di uq vaso Italo Greco. N. 1811. 4to. [Millingen Peint. de Vases, pi. 20, 21. The author's D. A. K. Denkm. i. Tf. 19, 98. Minervini in the Bullett. Nap. ii. p. 122. iii. p. 48, 52. 0. Jahn Archseol. Aufs. S. 139 f.] 9. Memnon overcome by Achilles and carried away by Eos, two groups on an Agrigentine vase (but with Attic inscription) of powerful and finished design, Millingen, Un. Mon. i. pi. 4, 5. 10. Pyrrhus slaying young Astyanax before the walls of Troy, at the altar of the Thymbrsean Apollo, on a Volcian vase. Mon. d. Inst. 34. Comp. Ambrosch, Ann. iii. p. 361. [young Troilus, Ann. v. p. 251—54. 0. Jahn Telephos and Troilos, S. 70.] 11. Athena, recognisable by her helmet and lance, sitting at the right hand of Zeus, with the thunderbolt; before them two Horae, behind the throne Hermes and Dionysus, in a finished antique style such as prevails at Volci. Copied in colours (red and white) in Micali tv. 81. 12. Dionysus in the ship of the Tyrrhene pirates (an ingenious and grandiose composition) on a cup from Volci, in the inside. On the out- side of the rim combats around two fallen heroes. Inghirami, G. Omerica tv. 259, 260. [Gerhard Auserl. Vasen i. Tf. 49.] 13. Athenian virgins drawing water for the bridal bath from the fountain Callirrhoe (KAAIPE KPENE, read KccXhtppii K^yiuri), from Volci. Brondsted, A brief descr. of thirty-two anc Greek vases, n. 27. Comp. the marriage-vases for Lysippides and Rhodon in Pr. Lucian, Musee Etrusque n. 1547, 1548. 14. A traffic-scene,—sale of wool [Silphion] under the superintendence of a magistrate, with Doric inscriptions (AQKsal-Kctg), on a vase from Etruria, in a bizarre style, not Attic. Mon. d. Inst. 47. Ann. v. p. 56. Micali tv. 97. [Cab. Durand, no. 422. Panofka Bilder antiken Lebeus Taf, xvi, 3. Inghirami Vasi fitt. tav. 250.]