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THE ILLUSTRATED EXHIBITOR.
Pausanias, a native of Syria, who travelled in Greece, to- spoken of with respect, centuries after sculpture had r
wards the end of the second century of the Christian era, and j to its zenith. This was Daedalus, the countryman Td
contemporary of Thes<
not inferior.
that
eus,
to
wrote the first professedly
antiquarian work now ex-
tant, states that he saw at
Pharce in Achaia, thirty
quadrangular clocks of
stone which were wor-
shipped as symbols of
thirty deities ; at Sicyon,
Diana was represented by
a column, and Jupiter by
a pyramid; and the Lace-
daemonians represented
Castor and Pollux by two
parallel posts, to which a
transverse beam was add-
ed to express their mu-
tual affection. But these
were only symbols, and
the next step in the art
was tbe attempt to fashion
them into something like
a rude outline of the hu-
man figure. The upper
part was shaped into the
likeness of a head, but the
extremities seem not to
have been attempted, nor
were the arms separated
from the body, the fold-
ings of the drapery being
stiffly marked in deep lines
upon the surface.
Images of the gods
were also produced in the
workshops of the potters,
although less for the ser-
vice of the temples than
for domestic worship and
sepulture. Many such, manufactured bv Attic workers | ther proof of the exquisite taste, and of the delightful
VEILED SLAVE.----BY RAPHAEL MONTI, OF AUSTRIA.
perhaps,
hero, either ia faine
or variety of adventures.
It is uncertain at what
period the art of casting
brass in moulds, taken from
the models in clay, was in-
vented. The traditions
mentioned by Pliny on the
subject being neither quite
consistent with each other
nor very clearly expressed.
The Corinthians attributed
the invention to Dibutades
a Sicyonianpotter, who ac-
cidentally became the pos-
sessor of this most import-
ant invention in the art.
His daughter, known by
the appellation of the Co-
rinthian Maid, being about
to be separated from her
lover, who was going on a
distant journey, traced his
profile by lamplight upon
the wall. Struck with the
likeness exhibited in the
sketch, her father carefully
filled up the lines with
clay, and thus formed a
medallion, which, hardened
in the fire, was long pre-
served in Corinth as a most
interesting relic. To this
pleasing incident the poets
have attributed the dis-
covery of painting,
-ano-
in clay, of great sim-
plicity and rude-
ness, are still found
in tombs at Athens.
Figures and reliefs
of earth were also
made at an early
period as ornaments
for houses and pub-
lic porticos, especi-
ally at Corinth, the
city of potters.
Such, undoubt-
edly, with various
degrees of individ-
ual merit, appears
to have been the
state of the art in
Greece, when a
sculptor appeared,
whose works elicit-
ed the praise of
THE MOL'RNERS.----BY J. G. LOUGH.
charm which the
Greeks have im-
parted to the arts,
by the constant
union of sentiment
with imagination,
of the heart with
the understanding.
The engraving of
gems, like the other
arts, was early cul-
tivated among the
Greeks, and the
custom of wearing
cut stones on seal
rings appears to
have been general
among them, even
in the time of Solon.
As the alphabet was
invented about the
period of their
poets, the speculations of philosophers, and the record of | emergence from the barbarism of their colonial state, neces-
historians ; and continued to be preserved with zeal and j sity did not demand the use of hieroglyphics; hence this
THE ILLUSTRATED EXHIBITOR.
Pausanias, a native of Syria, who travelled in Greece, to- spoken of with respect, centuries after sculpture had r
wards the end of the second century of the Christian era, and j to its zenith. This was Daedalus, the countryman Td
contemporary of Thes<
not inferior.
that
eus,
to
wrote the first professedly
antiquarian work now ex-
tant, states that he saw at
Pharce in Achaia, thirty
quadrangular clocks of
stone which were wor-
shipped as symbols of
thirty deities ; at Sicyon,
Diana was represented by
a column, and Jupiter by
a pyramid; and the Lace-
daemonians represented
Castor and Pollux by two
parallel posts, to which a
transverse beam was add-
ed to express their mu-
tual affection. But these
were only symbols, and
the next step in the art
was tbe attempt to fashion
them into something like
a rude outline of the hu-
man figure. The upper
part was shaped into the
likeness of a head, but the
extremities seem not to
have been attempted, nor
were the arms separated
from the body, the fold-
ings of the drapery being
stiffly marked in deep lines
upon the surface.
Images of the gods
were also produced in the
workshops of the potters,
although less for the ser-
vice of the temples than
for domestic worship and
sepulture. Many such, manufactured bv Attic workers | ther proof of the exquisite taste, and of the delightful
VEILED SLAVE.----BY RAPHAEL MONTI, OF AUSTRIA.
perhaps,
hero, either ia faine
or variety of adventures.
It is uncertain at what
period the art of casting
brass in moulds, taken from
the models in clay, was in-
vented. The traditions
mentioned by Pliny on the
subject being neither quite
consistent with each other
nor very clearly expressed.
The Corinthians attributed
the invention to Dibutades
a Sicyonianpotter, who ac-
cidentally became the pos-
sessor of this most import-
ant invention in the art.
His daughter, known by
the appellation of the Co-
rinthian Maid, being about
to be separated from her
lover, who was going on a
distant journey, traced his
profile by lamplight upon
the wall. Struck with the
likeness exhibited in the
sketch, her father carefully
filled up the lines with
clay, and thus formed a
medallion, which, hardened
in the fire, was long pre-
served in Corinth as a most
interesting relic. To this
pleasing incident the poets
have attributed the dis-
covery of painting,
-ano-
in clay, of great sim-
plicity and rude-
ness, are still found
in tombs at Athens.
Figures and reliefs
of earth were also
made at an early
period as ornaments
for houses and pub-
lic porticos, especi-
ally at Corinth, the
city of potters.
Such, undoubt-
edly, with various
degrees of individ-
ual merit, appears
to have been the
state of the art in
Greece, when a
sculptor appeared,
whose works elicit-
ed the praise of
THE MOL'RNERS.----BY J. G. LOUGH.
charm which the
Greeks have im-
parted to the arts,
by the constant
union of sentiment
with imagination,
of the heart with
the understanding.
The engraving of
gems, like the other
arts, was early cul-
tivated among the
Greeks, and the
custom of wearing
cut stones on seal
rings appears to
have been general
among them, even
in the time of Solon.
As the alphabet was
invented about the
period of their
poets, the speculations of philosophers, and the record of | emergence from the barbarism of their colonial state, neces-
historians ; and continued to be preserved with zeal and j sity did not demand the use of hieroglyphics; hence this