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ELGIN ROOM-Miscellaneous Statues, &c., continued.

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7. Inscriptions relating to Temples, Decrees, &c.

8. Architectural Fragments and Ornaments of Roofs, &c. . 140

TOWNELEY AND MISCELLANEOUS SCULPTURES

I. Statues and Bas-reliefs.

II. Busts of Mythological Personages

III. Portrait Busts of Greek Personages

IV. Finest Statues of the Roman Period

V. Statues of the late Roman Period

VI. Busts of Roman Emperors

VII. Sepulchral Monuments, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman.

VIII. Roman Altars.

EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.

INTRODUCTION

EGYPTIAN SALOON

I. Statues and Fragments of Kings

II. Statues and Fragments of Deities

III. Representations of Animals.

IV. Sarcophagi

V. The Obelisks

VI. Inscribed Slabs

VII. Sepulchral Tablets, Architectural Fragments, &c.

TABLE OF EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY, &c.

EGYPTIAN ROOM

I. Divinities, Royal Personages, and Sacred Animals
Sacred Animals, Birds, and Reptiles

II. Sepulchral Remains, Mummies, &c.

1. Sepulchral Tablets

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TABLE OF GREEK AND ROMAN ARTISTS.

The following list and dates of eminent artists of Ancient Greece and Italy has been taken from Julius Sillig's Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity.

Olymp.

B.C.

Names of Artists, &c.

I.

XVIII.

776

Dædalus of Athens. Smilis of Egina.
Eucheir I. discovers the art of painting.

Dibutades of Corinth, and his daughter Core, first make
plaster-casts.

Philocles the Egyptian, or Cleanthes the Corinthian, invent painting in outline.

Their contemporaries are

Arego, Crato of Sicyon, and Saurias of Samos. Ardices the Corinthian, and Telephanes I. the Sicyonian, exercise the art of painting.

(The precise dates of the above facts are uncertain.)

About this period flourished Chersiphro of Cnossus, the
architect, and Telecles and Theodorus I., sons of
Rhocus. In a rather later period Metagenes I., son of
Chersiphro, Pæonius I. of Ephesus, and Learchus of
Rhegium.

708 Shortly before this time Bularchus, the painter, appeared
in Asia.

Glaucus I. invents the soldering of iron.

Eucheir II. and Eugrammus, Corinthian modellers, exercise their art in Italy.

Cleophantus, the Corinthian, flourishes.

Malas of Chios appears as a sculptor.

Micciades, the Chian, practises sculpture.

Mnesarchus the Etrurian, the father of Pythagoras, becomes eminent as an engraver of precious stones. Dipænus and Scyllis, natives of Crete, attain great eminence in sculpturing marble. About this period flourished also Anthermus or Archeneus of Chios, Byres of Naxos, and Endoëus the Athenian.

Olymp.

B.C.

Names of Artists, &c.

LVIII.

548

LIX.

LX.

Tectæus and Angelio make the statue of the Delian
Apollo.
About this time flourished also Bupalus and Athenis of
Chios, and Theocles the Laconian, sculptors; Dontas,
Doryclidas, and Medo, all of Laconia, statuaries; and
Theodorus II., the Samian, an engraver.

544 Syadras and Chartas, Lacedæmonian statuaries, flourish
probably about this period.

540 Bathycles the Magnesian, a statuary, and Spintharus, an architect of Corinth, flourish.

LXI.

536

LXII.

532

LXV.

LXVI.

LXVIII.

LXX.

About this time Antistates, Callæschrus, Antimachides, and Porinus, architects, lay the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens.

Clectas, of Sicyon, the statuary.

Demeas I. of Crotona, statuary, flourishes.

520 Ageladas of Argos, statuary, makes a statue of Anochus, a victor in the Olympic games.

516 Ageladas makes a chariot in honour of the victory of Cleosthenes at Olympia, and about the same period ennobles a victory obtained by Timasitheus.

Callo I. of Ægina, Chrysothemis and Eutelidas of Argos, and Gitiadas the Lacedæmonian, flourish as statuaries. 508 Amphicrates, the statuary, makes the figure of a lioness. Antenor makes statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Aristocles II. and his brother Canachus I., both of Sicyon, flourish as statuaries. This was the age also of Clearchus of Rhegium.

500 Hegesias and Hegias of Athens, Menæchmus and Soidas of Naupactus, Telephanes II. of Phocis, and Arcesilaus I. flourish as statuaries. Aglaopho I. of Thasos, father of POLYGNOTUS and Aristopho, exercises the art of painting. Sillax of Rhegium, the painter, flourishes.

493 Demophilus I. and Gorgasus practise the arts of painting and making plaster-casts at Rome.

LXXI. 4.

LXXII. LXXIII.

488

LXXIV.

492 Stomius, statuary, flourishes.

484

Glaucias of Ægina, statuary, flourishes. Pythagoras I. of Rhegium begins to exercise the art of statuary. About this time PHEIDIAS is born.

Ascarus, the Theban, forms for the Thessalians a statue of Jupiter out of the spoils of the Phocians. Amyclæus, Diyllus, and Chionis prepare several statues out of the spoils taken from the Thessalians by the Phocians, which are dedicated by the latter at Delphi. Aristomedo is also engaged in this undertaking.