Sappho and her influenceRobinson, David M. (David Moore)
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Sappho and her influence
Robinson, David M. (David Moore)
Sappho -- Influence
[120] Cf. Nicole, _Meidias_, Geneva, 1908, pls. III and VI. I cannot
agree with Nicole in dating Meidias as late as 375-350 B.C. He belongs
to the time of the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. This fatal war did
not stop the Athenians from producing during war times such great works
of art as the Erechtheum, beautiful vases and statues. Cf. also note 68
above.
[121] Cf. Pfuhl, _op. cit._, p. 566, III, Fig. 557; Pellegrini, _Museo
Civico di Bologna, Catalogo dei Vasi Greci_, pp. 133-135, Fig. 77.
[122] _N. H._, XXXV. 141. Brunn, _Kunstgeschichte_, p. 299, identifies him
with a bronze-sculptor, Leon, but we are equally ignorant about him.
[123] _Anth. Plan._, 310 (Edmonds, p. 173); Tatian, _Adv. Gr._, 130.
[124] Cf. Hermann, _Denkmäler der Malerei des Altertums_, pl. 28; Pfuhl,
_op. cit._, p. 734; Lippold, _Röm. Mitt._, XXXIII. 71 ff. (1918).
[125] For replicas of the Sappho cf. Rizzo, _Rev. Arch._, 1901, pp.
301 ff. The latest and best discussion is by Percy Gardner, _J. H. S._
XXXVIII. 10 ff. (1918). For a copy of Silanion’s Corinna at Compiègne
cf. _Rev. Arch._ XXXII. 161 (1894); XXXVI 169 (1898); Furtwängler,
_Meisterwerke_, pp. 99 ff. would class many of the so-called Sapphos as
Aphrodite and thinks that those which are copies of fifth century art may
represent the Aphrodite of Phidias which was to be seen in later days in
the portico of Octavia at Rome (Pliny, _N. H._ XXXVI, 15).
[126] II. 4. 57.
[127] _Anth. Pal._, VII. 15.
[128] Cf. Fraenkel, _Inschriften von Pergamon_, 198. According to _C.
I. G._ 3555 Jucundus and Cyriac of Ancona still saw the inscription at
Pergamum.
[129] _Ecphr._, 69-71.
[130] On the Albani bust cf. _Jahrbuch_, V. 152 ff. (1890), pl. III;
Morcelli, Fea, Visconti, _Descr. della Villa Albani_, 1033; Schneider,
_Jb. d. Ak. Kunstsammlungen_, XII, 72 ff. (1891); Arndt, Brunn-Bruckmann,
_Griechische und Römische Porträts_, pl. 147-148; for the bust in the
Pitti cf. Arndt, pls. 149-150; for that in the Uffizi, pls. 145-146;
cf. also Cipollini, pp. 345-356. On the Biscari and Naples busts cf.
Rizzo, _Rev. Arch._ XXXIX, 1901, pp. 301-307, pls. XXI, XXII. On the
Constantinople head cf. Mendel’s _Cat._ no. 626.
[131] _Art and Archaeology_, VI. 277 ff. (1917), Robinson, _ibid._,
pp. 285 ff. I have omitted mention of many other ancient works of art
wrongly supposed to represent Sappho, such as Stackelberg, _Die Gräber
der Hellenen_, Berlin, 1837, pl. LXX, called Sappho with a female friend
sitting in her lap, merely because of the book-roll.
[132] _Arch. Anzeiger_, XXVII. 124 (1912).
[133] Cipollini, p. 405, pictures Magni’s Saffo; p. 409 Confalonieri’s
Saffo; p. 413 Pradier’s Sapho; p. 417 Pradier’s standing Sapho; p. 421
Barrias’ painting; p. 425 Gleyre’s couch of Sappho. There is a bust of
Sappho by Canova in Turin.
[134] Cf. Reinach, in _Revue Archéologique_, XX, 2. 433-434 (1912), X, 2.
392 (1919).
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