Greek terra-cotta statuettes : their origin, evolution, and uses / By Marcus B. Huish.
- Huish, Marcus B. (Marcus Bourne), 1845-1921.
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Greek terra-cotta statuettes : their origin, evolution, and uses / By Marcus B. Huish. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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- Found on image 14 / 426 (page 6)…gler. With re^Tard to the illustrations: H.R.H. the Princess of Wales graciously permitted me to reproduce as a frontispiece a beautiful statuette of Eros which is in her possession ; Dr. A. S. Murray, Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum, was most courteous in furthering the ...
- Found on image 22 / 426 (page 14)…XXVI. Poseidon yy It »> • • 132 XXXVII. Perseus with the Head of Medusa Melos M *» • • 136 XXXVIII. Dancing Figures yy Louvre Museum . 137 XXXIX. XL. Eros [ Eros and Psyche ... A yy British Museum . Salting Collection, "i Victoria and Albert 140 140 /Artemis , y Museum ) XLI. Two Figures OF Artemis Corf...
- Found on image 22 / 426 (page 14)…oseidon yy It »> • • 132 XXXVII. Perseus with the Head of Medusa Melos M *» • • 136 XXXVIII. Dancing Figures yy Louvre Museum . 137 XXXIX. XL. Eros [ Eros and Psyche ... A yy British Museum . Salting Collection, "i Victoria and Albert 140 140 /Artemis , y Museum ) XLI. Two Figures OF Artemis Corfu 141 X...
- Found on image 22 / 426 (page 14)…y British Museum . Salting Collection, "i Victoria and Albert 140 140 /Artemis , y Museum ) XLI. Two Figures OF Artemis Corfu 141 XLII. Aphrodite and Eros .... / utepe Imperial Museum, ) Constantinople f 144 XLIII. Dancing Figures yy M yy • 145 XLIV. Garniture of Figures (Left portion) Myritia Louvre Mu...
- Found on image 22 / 426 (page 14)…of Figures (Left portion) Myritia Louvre Museum . 152 XLV. Garniture of Fic;ures (Rigrht portion) yy »» yy • 152 XLVI. Erotes yy »» yy • • 160 XLVII. Eros 160 XLVIII. Dionysos AND Ariadne . yy yy yy • • 160 XLIX. Eros .... yy M »» • • 160 L. Nike .... Cyme .Sabouroff Collection,) St. Petersburg / 168 LI...
- Found on image 22 / 426 (page 14)…iture of Fic;ures (Rigrht portion) yy »» yy • 152 XLVI. Erotes yy »» yy • • 160 XLVII. Eros 160 XLVIII. Dionysos AND Ariadne . yy yy yy • • 160 XLIX. Eros .... yy M »» • • 160 L. Nike .... Cyme .Sabouroff Collection,) St. Petersburg / 168 LI. Smyrna late Greau Collection . 16S LII. Urania yy »» yy 168 L...
- Found on image 23 / 426 (page 15)…a Minor Salting Collection, ) Victoi ia and Albert Museum ) 17 II 4- Pastrycook watching his Cakes Tanagra Louvre Museum . 18 II 5- Aphrodite nursing Eros II lonides Collection 20 II 6. The Conversation at the Tomb • 1 Salting Collection, ) Victoria and Albert - Museum • 24 II 7- Articulated Figure .......
- Found on image 32 / 426 (page 6)…ps necessary. goddess of fecundity, and as the outcome of the goddess Nana, and also with attributes of a dove, found in statuettes. 4 A statuette of Eros from Cyrene, in the Louvre, as an independent god of ancient cult. THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATUETTE* evolution of the Statuette, its origin, its manufa...
- Found on image 44 / 426 (page 16)…e numerous (they formed at least one half), and were easily distinguishable by their attributes. Demeter, Dionyso.s, Aphrodite, Heracles, Apollo, and Eros were recognised at once, either by attitude, costume, or accessories. Again the grotesques and the actors formed an easily assigned class. Then there...
- Found on image 44 / 426 (page 16)…igious type. The analysis of the Myrina figurines came out thus :— Out of 182 clearly recognisable mythological subjects now in the Louvre, 70 are of Eros, 53 of Aphrodite, 14 of Nike, 5 of Demeter, and the remaining 40 are distributed among other divinities. Out of 151 familiar or comic subjects, 32 are...
- Found on image 44 / 426 (page 16)…r comic subjects, 32 are standing draped women, 19 children, 14 men or warriors, 16 grotesques, and 21 animals. Of 44 funerary subjects, 26 represent Eros, 13 winged sirens, and 5 funeral feasts. 1 he remainder fall under the “ indistinguishable ” class. In the case of the Temple find of ex-votos at Elat...
- Found on image 50 / 426 (page 20)… the artificer worked to live. It is perhaps too derogatory to him to call him a shopkeeper, but he certainly manufactured Fu;. 5.—AriiRODiTE nursing Eros. (Tanagra.) louidcs Collection. what he found to be most saleable. If the demand was for religious images, he made a succession of these. When, under ...
- Found on image 175 / 426 (page 109)…ate XXIII. ITamtgra.] Uritiih Museum. FIGURE WITH DIONYSIAC WREATH 1’latk XXI\’. [Tanitgra.] Author's Collection, A LADY. PLATK XXV.—TiIK OlFERING TO ErOS. (TaNAGRA.) lonides Collection. ¥ I’l.ATE XXVI.—The rROMENADE. (TaNAGRA.) Late Grcau Collection. arisen from other factors, of which the following are...
- Found on image 209 / 426 (page 121)…e of Aphrodite, which served to indicate to what circle the figures were attached. “To the.se changes one must also add the manner of repre- -senting Eros, and the role which he has to play. He is now altogether the wanton child of later times, and this manner of representing him is as different to the a...
- Found on image 211 / 426 (page 123)…t the artist, having wished to add to the charm of his figure by the admission of a little sentiment, has used as accessories the well- worn theme of Eros and the Apple (see also Plate XLIX.), and has presumed thereb}’ to transform his lady into Aphrodite. W’ith the next figure (Plate XXVI.) we pass on ...
- Found on image 227 / 426 (page 135)…, and the very small number which represent the goddess to whom the temple was dedicated. Those which have to do with the cult of Demctcr, Aphrodite, Eros, or Dionysos, and even of such comparatively obscure personages as Leda and Acta.'on, are three times as numerous as arc those to the goddess herself....
- Found on image 234 / 426 (page 138)… also comes the group (Plate XXXVIII.) of two women dancing to the accompaniment of castanets played by one of them, and of a tambourine struck by an Eros, whilst a large veil floats behind them. This beautiful group was presented to the Louvre some years ago by M. Challet, formerly P'rench Consul at Syr...
- Found on image 234 / 426 (page 138)…t beautiful, as it is the best preserved, of the statuettes in the British Museum. Representing a winged figure (Plate XXXIX.), it is described as an Eros on the label, but it differs entirely in its masculine growth from the feminine P'ros which we shall meet with on the other side of the /Egean (see P...
- Found on image 235 / 426 (page 139)…., p. 21 r. He considers that the head recalls the Hermes at Olympia and the Aberdeen head in the British Museum, and the wings those of the Palatine Eros, and the Borghese Eros in the Louvre. He fi.xes the date as between 340 R.c. and 330 ]5.C., and the work Fig. 36.—Euroi’a and the Bull. (Eretria.) lon...
- Found on image 235 / 426 (page 139)…s that the head recalls the Hermes at Olympia and the Aberdeen head in the British Museum, and the wings those of the Palatine Eros, and the Borghese Eros in the Louvre. He fi.xes the date as between 340 R.c. and 330 ]5.C., and the work Fig. 36.—Euroi’a and the Bull. (Eretria.) lonides Collection. as th...
- Found on image 235 / 426 (page 139)…t. gh in. high, and is com- posed of a greyish, fine-grained, well-baked clay, which shows a purplish tint when broken. Another PTetrian statuette of Eros, from the British Museum, is figured in the same volume of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (p. 134), where it is compared with a Myrinaean Eros. From ...
- Found on image 236 / 426 (page 140)…te of Eros, from the British Museum, is figured in the same volume of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (p. 134), where it is compared with a Myrinaean Eros. From Eretria also comes the “ Lady’’(Plate V.), the late Mr. lonides’ “ Rape of P'uropa” (Fig. 36), and Mr. Salting’s two small statuettes of Eros an...
- Found on image 236 / 426 (page 140)…n Eros. From Eretria also comes the “ Lady’’(Plate V.), the late Mr. lonides’ “ Rape of P'uropa” (Fig. 36), and Mr. Salting’s two small statuettes of Eros and Psyche, and Artemis (Plate XL.). The Louvre also contains some interesting terra-cottas from Plretria. Amongst them are the contents of a child’s...
- Found on image 236 / 426 (page 140)…onal Museum at Athens with a collection of statuettes, many of them of considerable merit, but none of them as fine or as large as the British Museum Eros. Many statuettes have also been discovered at Chalcis, which is situated on the point where Plubcea most nearly joins the mainland. It would have been...
- Found on image 237 / 426 (page 141)…n decidedly disappointing. The collection at Athens contains a few from the * Necklets of a similar character have also been found at Cyrene. 1 Plate XXXIX.—Eros. (Eretria.) Terra-cotta of Eros. t^From the British Museum,') Platk XI » 3 Plate XLI. Two Figures of Artemis. (Corfu.) first-named, which exhibit very...
- Found on image 237 / 426 (page 141)…on at Athens contains a few from the * Necklets of a similar character have also been found at Cyrene. 1 Plate XXXIX.—Eros. (Eretria.) Terra-cotta of Eros. t^From the British Museum,') Platk XI » 3 Plate XLI. Two Figures of Artemis. (Corfu.) first-named, which exhibit very careful but arcliaic work, and ...
- Found on image 247 / 426 (page 145)…s. Climate, surroundings, and intercourse with other races had affected all these Asian branches, turning, as time went on. Plate XLII.—Aphrodite and Eros. (Intepe.) Pi,ATE XLIII.—Dancing Figures. (Intere.) •manlihess into effeminacy and love of ease, sobriety into luxuriousness, ' and simplicity and col...
- Found on image 252 / 426 (page 146)…ater in date than the time of Praxiteles, and even of later date than the time of Alexander the Great ; but probably it bears some relationship to an Eros by the great artist, as Pliny mentions a statue of Eros by Praxiteles as existing at Parium in the Propontis, and a series of Parium coins bear on th...
- Found on image 252 / 426 (page 146)…ter date than the time of Alexander the Great ; but probably it bears some relationship to an Eros by the great artist, as Pliny mentions a statue of Eros by Praxiteles as existing at Parium in the Propontis, and a series of Parium coins bear on the reverse a figure of the boy-god.* * There was in tlie ...
- Found on image 254 / 426 (page 148)…The three groups which were found appear to come, accord- ing to their execution and inspiration, in the following order. The first, of Aphrodite and Eros, which we illustrate (Plate XLII.), is farthest removed from the ordinary style of Asiatic work. One sees in it, in spite of certain faults of drawing...
- Found on image 254 / 426 (page 148)…h a sedate countenance, and the hair arranged in a severe manner, everything recalling the Cariatides of the P'rechtheion. The respectful attitude of Eros, who prepares to burn incense before his divine mother, completes the religious impression which the artist certainly aimed at. Whilst it is not claim...
- Found on image 266 / 426 (page 156)… the occupant and the objects placed in the grave. In that of a woman were found nothing but statuettes of women and of such divinities as Aphrodite, Eros, Demeter, and Nike. In that of a man would be found, in practically equal proportions, statuettes of either sex, but amongst those of divinities would...
- Found on image 266 / 426 (page 156)…tes of either sex, but amongst those of divinities would be Dionysos, Heracles, and Atys. In those of children the large number of representations of Eros or of children would be unmistakable, but there would also be those of men and women. In addition to this, the statuettes often clearly agreed in age...
- Found on image 267 / 426 (page 157)…ost part been furnished with scenes from everyday life, those of Myrina in a large measure consist of mythological subjects taken from the Aphrodite, Eros, Dionysos, Heracles, and Nike Cycles. Again, the winged figures of young women and youths, which it is more difficult to assign to a mythological sour...
- Found on image 274 / 426 (page 164)…tely necessary to reproduce them here in two ■plates, if they were to be shown of any size. I’LATE XLVI. —ErOTES. (MyrIXA.1 Ln.i •i<rp Mu i 1 I'l-ATK XLVIL—Eros. (Myrina.) Pi.ATR XLViri.—Dionysos and Ariadne. (From same Tomr, Myrina.) Lourre Museum. r rLATE XLIX.—Ekos. (iMyrina.) Louvre Museum. used for the ce...
- Found on image 279 / 426 (page 161)…and all be 'Tanagraean. Nowhere have we better evidence of the skill of the statuette- makers in varying their ideas than in the series of figures of Eros which were disinterred at Myrina. The three plates which we give of this subject are practically sufficient to illustrate this. * See Curtius, Zwet G...
- Found on image 281 / 426 (page 163)… illustrated in the Joitrnal of Hellenic Studies, vol. XV., p. 134, where Miss Hutton notes that, whilst there are some twenty examples in gems of an Eros burning a over a torch, there is none of his acting thus over an altar. It shows the changed conception of Eros from the great god of the era of Soph...
- Found on image 281 / 426 (page 163)…re some twenty examples in gems of an Eros burning a over a torch, there is none of his acting thus over an altar. It shows the changed conception of Eros from the great god of the era of Sophocles to the passionately Erotic boy of later centuries, when he became connected with P.syche. The two groups o...
- Found on image 317 / 426 (page 177)…d this usually tends in the direction of regret at a life that is ended rather than in the hope of one to come, as was the case in the earlier types. Eros extinguishing a torch against the ground is not uncommon. This of itself affords a clue to the date, and places it at no great distance from the Chri...
- Found on image 335 / 426 (page 189)…s to which we have been introduced elsewhere, but in heavier and grosser forms, replace the elegancies of heretofore. Aphrodite detaching her sandal, Eros and Psyche embracing, Laocoon and the serpents, evidence the taste of the modellers and their desire to meet that of the public. The British Museum, ...
- Found on image 335 / 426 (page 189)… (Centorbi), and the Museum Guide well describes them in the words “ florid and careless.” An exception may perhaps be made in the design of a winged Eros (D. 3), which forms a kind of patera, and which would appear to be a precursor of many of the works in faience which the Renaissance gave us from Cen...
- Found on image 411 / 426 (page 243)…2 Antefixes, Masks as, 211 Antinoc, Researches at, 180 Apes, S’s of, 82 Aphrodite, S as goddess of fecundity, 5 with attribute of dove, 6;/.; nursing Eros, fig. 5, p. 20 ; Egyptian prototype of, 35 ; Chaldean, 42, 43 ; S’s of, at Dali, 52 ; at Kition, 55 ; in Rhodes, 64, and Plate XI. ; hormoi worn bj’, ...
- Found on image 411 / 426 (page 243)… and Plate XI. ; hormoi worn bj’, 75 ; in I’anagra .S’s, 116; on dol])hin, fig. 33, p. 118; apples as symbols of, 121 ; Term as symbol of, 121 ; with Eros, 123; S of, 124. and Plate XXXI.; S’s of, at Elateia, 135; finds in temple of, Delos, 136 ;/.; at Ereti ia, 140 ; at intepe, 148, and Plate XI.II. ; a...
- Found on image 411 / 426 (page 243)…’rina, 16; finds at temple of, 136 «; S’s from temple of, at Cal3mna, 174 Apology for undertaking work, i Apples; as attribute of Aphrodite, 121 ; of Eros, 123, 162 Apulia, Craft of T in, 191 Argos, Discoveries at, 69 Ariadne; deserted at Naxos, fig. 32, p. 116; and Dionysos, S of, 163, and l^late Xl.VlI...
- Found on image 412 / 426 (page 244)…ection of S’s of, 174 Baubo, Myth of, 82 Benghazi, Ex. at, 176 I Berlin Museum, S’s in, 68 m., 83, 123 151, 161, 222 Bienkowski, Herr P., on Erctrian Eros, 138 Boeotia, .S’s, 100; description of, \ooctsctj.\ women of, 103; art of, 103; causes conducive to and against art in, 104 Boni, Signor, Eind of .S’...
- Found on image 412 / 426 (page 244)… 171; Cnidos, 172; Asia Minor, 174, and Plate LXXIV.; Calym- na, 174; Egyptian head-dresses in, 221 ; toys in, 222; mould from, 227, and Plate LXXV.; Eros in, 163; antefixes in, 193; masks in, 204, 210, 211 Burial Grounds. Sec "Necropoleis’’ Burlington Fine Arts Club Exliibition, 173, 239. 241 Cai.ymna,...
- Found on image 414 / 426 (page 246)…67, and Plates XXVIl. and Till. Ephesus, .S's from, 170 Erechtheion, finds of .S’s in, 89, 136 228 ; Cariatides of, 148 Eretria, S. from, 122, 138-40 Eros, Cyrene .S, showing him as an indc-, pendent god, 6 n.; nursed by Aphrodite, fig. 5, p. 20; in Ta T's, 117 ; creation of, 119; change in manner of rep...
- Found on image 416 / 426 (page 248)… prototype of Harpoerates and Bambino, 36; fig. 10, p. 34; S at Antinoc, 181 Household ornaments, S’s as. See “ Uses of Statuettes ” Hutton, Miss, on Eros, 163 Ilyiiria, attribute to S, 117 Hydrophori^ S of, 171 Hylas and a Naiad, S of, 124, and Plate ' XXX. Ialysos, Researches at, 5o; idols found at, 75...
- Found on image 417 / 426 (page 249)…'s, 18, 20, 115, 122, 157; Hermes suggesting work of, 97, 146; bas-relief at Mantinea, 98, 127; in Boeotia, 104; and Thespiadcs group, 129; statue of Eros b3’, 146 17 Priene, S’s from, 171 Ptah evolved from Horus, 34 Reinach, M. T., on Intepe S’s, 149; researches of, 151 Religious aspect of S’s, 23 Rest...
- Found on image 418 / 426 (page 250)…« Salamis, Athene from, 58; S’s in, 140 Salting, Mr. G., S’s in collection of (see “List of Plates’’); S. of Three Graces, 124; Hylas and Naiad, ib.; Eros and Psyche, and Artemis, 140, and Plate XL.; and Ariadne, 164, and fig. 32 Sambon, Dr. L., collection of T’s, 195;/. Samos, S in, 67 Sants, 69 Sarcop...
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