The Artists of Pergamum

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New Era Printing Company, 1904 - 45 pagine
 

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Pagina 34 - cessavit deinde ars ac rursus olympiade CLVI revixit, cum fuere longe quidem infra praedictos, probati tamen, Antaeus, Callistratus, Polycles Athenaeus, Callixenus, Pythocles, Pythias, Timocles.
Pagina 5 - Theron, a Boeotian. The inscribed pedestal of a statue by this sculptor has been found at Pergamus, from which it appears that he flourished in the first half of the second century BC The marks on the upper surface of the pedestal show that the statue was of bronze. See Die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen zu Pergamon, Vorldufiger Bericht (Berlin, 1880), p.
Pagina 21 - XXXIV, 90: Simon canem et sagittarium fecit, Stratonicus caelator ille philosophos Scopas uterque . . . Whether another work of Stratonicus is referred to in this passage is uncertain.
Pagina 14 - IGB, 154°. Marks on the flat upper surface of the pedestal show that the statues which it supported were of bronze. As the war with Antiochus and the Gauls, which this group of statues commemorated, came to an end about 228 B. c.,2 these works of art were probably executed not long after this date. Since Pliny (NH, XXXIV, 84) mentions two artists whose names end in...
Pagina 17 - ... these Athenian groups bear marks of being reduced copies of larger originals, and Michaelis2 thinks that Epigonus took some part in the execution of the ex-voto at Athens ; this view, however, is not generally accepted. Michaelis proposes also to alter the Isigonus of Pliny, XXXIV, 84, to Epigonus. Plures artifices fecere Attali et Eumenis adversus Gallos proelia, Isigonus, Phyromachus, Stratonicus, Antigonus qui volumina condidit de sua arte. The change would be quite a simple one paleographically,...
Pagina 15 - A sixteenth century drawing of this was found by him in the library at Basel. This shows that the statue had, at the date of its discovery in 1514, the figure of an infant clinging to its right breast. This group was changed, he thinks, by a sixteenth century restorer, who removed the child; indeed, he claims that traces of its attachment can still be seen on the right side of the statue. Petersen-5 disputes this also : he thinks the torso of the child found in the same excavations was 1 Paus., I,...
Pagina 21 - NH, XXXIV, 85: Praeterea sunt aequalitate celebrati artifices, sed nullis operum suorum praecipui . . . , item e caelatoribus Stratonicus.
Pagina 4 - M. Collignon, Pergame. Restauration et Description des Monuments de 1'Acropole (Paris, 1900) ; JL Ussing, Pergamos.

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