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Bibliography of the most important authorities on Herculaneum
E. R. Barker
The Classical Review / Volume 22 / Issue 01 / February 1908, pp 5 - 8 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00000706, Published online: 27 October 2009
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Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 142.104.240.194 on 26 Apr 2015 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW Papyri. They are certainly Greek, and Balbus, father and son, are interesting possibly originals. The pose and balance of because, with the exception of the Marcus the figures are graceful; the Doric robes fall Aurelius, such statues are almost unknown in straight, stiff folds, yet reveal the curves till we come to the days of Donatello's great and lines of the form beneath: the variety statue in Padua. and realism in the treatment of the hair are Such discoveries in the past awaken keen admirable, and if the enamel eyes that have anticipation as to the results of future been inserted scarcely add to the beauty excavations. The zeal and enterprise of they certainly enhance the life-like effect of the Italian Government render it possible the fine, stately figures. For sheer beauty, that immediate excavations may be under- the so-called Head of Dionysus or Head taken in Italy, and that Herculaneum is of Plato is unsurpassed. The expressive to be the spot selected. What treasures head might well be that of the greatest of might not a second 'villa' yield? In her the pre-Christian mystics, or of Dionysus, buried ruins Italy holds the history of the pondering over the mysteries known to the ancient world: she was the inspiration of initiate, and revealed under the fierce the middle ages : she was the foster-mother symbolism of the Bacchic revels. The of the Renaissance; and in this twentieth treatment of the beard and the abundant century all Europe is ready to sympathize hair that seems to resist the gentle pres- with her in her arduous enterprise, which sure of the broad fillet that binds it, the may reveal fresh visions of beauty—may modelling of the cheek and brow and the add, as it were, a few more letters to those delicate curves of the lips are a revelation in unwritten words that shall spell for us some the art of bronze working. more of the secrets of history and archae- Passing over many life-like portrait-busts, ology. Such discoveries belong to no we come to a series of ' ideal heads,' and nation, and no time. under this category might well come several E. R. BARKER. busts to which names have been applied without any foundation. They are all Greek in type; they are all of ideal beauty; they are all different in technique—-in the BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MOST treatment of the hair, in the proportions of IMPORTANT AUTHORITIES the face. They are all different in type— ON HERCULANEUM. including the effeminate, oriental beauty of I. —CONTEMPORARY AUTHORITIES. the so-called Ptolemy Soter, the inexpressive A.—Covering the whole period loveliness of the slightly heavy-jawed, low- 1. Michele Ruggiero,1 Storia degli Scavi di browed, wide-eyed youth, the Doryphorus, Ercolano ricomposta sui documenti supersliti, and the Archaic Apollo, whose significance Naples, 1885. almost makes us forget its beauty. The (Most of the original sketches and plans are published in this book, together with a brief head, with its brooding eyes, with its extra- introduction.) ordinary vitality expressed even in the wild 2. The Reports of the Reale Accademia Ercolanese locks that cluster about the neck, seems containing reproductions of the bronzes and frescoes the one perfect expression of the sun god, found: published by Bayardi in Le Antichith di of the god of swift death, of the god • who Ercolano esposte in nine volumes : 1757-1792. 3. Bayardi, Catalogo degli Antichi Monumenti, inspired the raving priestess on her tripod. Naples, 1755. This head was found in the garden of the (This is the foundation for all other catalogues. It House of the Papyri, which possibly belonged is arranged without classification, and there are few to Lucius Calpurnius Piso. On the coins of indications of place and date.) 4. In the Museo Nazionale are some hundred the Calpurnian family appears a devitalized unpublished plates, containing reproductions of the and conventionalized version of this head. marbles among other things. Nothing is published here that did not come from the Museum at Portici. The marbles discovered in Herculaneum 5. Three volumes of Records for 1753—1804. do not possess the unique interest of the bronzes. The two equestrian statues of 1 Sometime Director of the Excavations. THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
B.— For Special Periods. manuscripts by La Vega, in the Archivio del Museo Nazionale.) I738-I74I- Much of this publication was suppressed by the 1. The reports of Alcubierre made for Charles III. Government. (These are inadequate and confused.) Rosini, Dissertationis Isagogicac. (Published by the Academy in 1797.) 1741-1749- 2. We have only a few notices of Members of the II.—LATER AUTHORITIES. Academy for 1744, and by Bardet for 1745. A. —Bibliography. 3. Fiorelli made several copies of reports, including reports for the years 1748 and 1749, for which we 1. Furcheim, Bibliografia di Pompei, Ercolano e have no original documents. Stadia, Naples. 1891. 4. Marcello di Venuti, Descrizione delle prime (Every work on the subject, including the most Scoperte delF antica citta di Ercolano, Rome, 1748. worthless, arranged in alphabetical order.) 5. A. F. Gori, Symbolae litterariae, Florence and 2. Mau-Kelsey, Pompeii, its Life and Art, Rome, 1748-1754. London, 1904. (Containing Admiranda antiquitatum Herculan- (The Bibliography contains some useful inform- ensium.) ation.) 6. Notizie del memorabile scoprimento delV antica 3. Indice Generate dei Lavori pubblicati dal 1757 citta di Ercolano, Florence, 1748. al 1902, published by R. Accademia di Archeologia, (Letters by various authors dated 1738-1748.) lettere e belle Arti e R. Accademia Ercolanese, Naples, 7. Darthenay, Mimoire sur la Ville Souterraine, I9O3- Paris, 1748. (A complete bibliography of the publications of the (A brief and excellent little account.) Society from 1757-1902 arranged under the names of 8. Cochin et Bellicard, Observations sur les An- the authors and also of the subjects.) tiquitis a*Herculanum, Paris, 1754.) 4. Castaldi, Delia R. Accademia Ercolanese, (The English translation, with additional plates, is Naples, 1840. wrongly dated 1753.) (An account of the Academy at Naples.) 5. Ettore Gabrici,1 Bibliografia Ercolanese, in 1 1750-1764. Bollettino d Arte, Rome, 1907. Fasc. VII. 1. Weber's Reports made for Alcubierre which B.—General Work. cover nearly the entire period, and some remnants 1. Domenico Comparetti e Giulio de Petra: La of a private register covering a small portion of the . Villa Ercolanese dei Pisoni, i suoi monumenti e la period. sua biblioteca, Turin, 1883. 2. Alcubierre's reports for a portion of this period. (An invaluable account of the Villa of the Papyri, 3. Paderni's Reports made for the Minister Tanucci with plates, catalogue, and the original authorities for entitled Nota di Metalli ed altre cose antiche che si the period.) trovano net Reali Scavamenti dal 1756-1780. 2. De Jorio, Notizie sugli Scavi di Ercolano, 4. Preceding this was another volume. Of this Naples, 1827. we have a small portion for October, 1752-August, . 3. Piranesi, Teatro di Ercolano, Paris, 1836. 1753, entitled Prima Nota consegnata a Sua Maesta. (Excellent plans, elevations, and restorations.) 5. Paderni was in frequent correspondence with 4. F. Mazois, Les Ruines de Pompei (continued by English travellers. This correspondence is found in iau. Excellent plans and restorations of the Theatre Philosophical Transactions, London. Vols. 48, 49, Herculaneum. Paris, 1824-38). 50, i.e., for the years 1752-1753. 5. Sir William Drummond and Robert Walpole, 6. Reports of Giuseppe di Corcoles. Terculanesia, London, 1810. (Covering a short period only.) 6. Beloch, Campanien, Berlin, 1879. / 7. Two catalogues of La Vega of the bronzes and (Excellent general account of Herculaneum.) ^ sculpture found 1750-1765. 7. Breton, Pompeia dicrite . . . suivi d'une Notice (Incomplete and copied from Weber.) sur Herculanum, Paris, 1869. (Useful for the nineteenth century excavations.) 1764-1780. 8. Auguste Mau (translated by Kelsey), Pompeii, \ Reports of Corcoles, of Paderni, of Alcubierre, of 4ts Life and Art, London, 1904. Canart, of La Vega. (There is a good deal that bears on Herculaneum.) , 9. Gaston Boissier, Promenades Archiologiques. 1828-1861. Essay on Pompeii, Paris, 1887. Reports of Carlo Bonucci. (Useful general idea of the period and its artistic 1861-1871. products.) 10. Carlo Bonucci, Ercolano, Naples, 1885. Reports of Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Pagano. C.—On the History and the Eruption. 1871-1884. - I. Furcheim, BibliografiadelVesuvio, Naples, 1897. Reports of Galella. 2. Michele Ruggiero, Delia eruzione del Vesuvio Giornale degli Scavi di Pompei, pubblicalo da Giuseppe Fiorelli, 1861-1865. 1 My own bibliography was completed before this (It contains a reprint in Vol. 8 of some unedited appeared. THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
neu anno 79, published in Pompei e la regions G.—Periodical Publications. sotterrata dal Vesuvio nelP anno 79, Naples, 1879. There are a number of excellent monographs scat- 3. Beule, Le Drame du Vesuve, Paris, 1872. tered among the publications of the various learned (For the eruption and description of life in the societies. They chiefly deal with the sculpture. The Campania.) most important publications in which these mono- graphs occur are:— D.—Sculptures and Frescoes. 1. Mittheilungen des Deutschen Archdologischen Instituts in Athen, 1878. 1. Inventoriesjand Catalogues of the Naples Museum 2. Archdologische Zeitung, 1876, 1880. based on Bayardi's. Compiled in 1820, 1849, 1870, 3. Bullettino delt Commissione Archeologica Co- 1906. munale di Roma, 1876, 1881. Rome 1829-1885. 2. In Furcheim's Bibliografia is a complete list of 4. Mittheilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archdo- books, dealing with the entire collection at Naples logischen Instituts, Rb'mische Abtheilung, for 1888, Museum. 1891, and 1894, 1889, 1895, 1898, 1900, 1902. (Some of these have beautiful engravings, but the (Berlin, Rome, 1886: in progress. Referred to as letterpress is usually worthless.) 1st. Arch. Germ.) 3. Reproductions of Works of Art found at Hercu- 5. Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archdologi- laneum have been published with letterpress in schen Instituts. (Rome, 1885, in progress. Vols. I, ' various languages by Piroli &° Piranesi (1804-6) 8 IO Martyn and Lettice (1773), Barre" and Roux (1851), 2, 3. 4. S. > -) iVilhelm Zahn (with coloured plates) in Die Schb'nsten 6. Tribuna of Rome: various articles by Prof. Ornamente und merkwilrdigsten Gemdlde aus . . . Dall' Osso, 1907. Herkulanum.... Berlin, 1827-1859. 7. Nuova Antologia : articles by Prof. Dall' Qsso. And in Reale Museo Borbonico (1824-1857). BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HERCULANEUM PAPYRI. (Those of later date supplement the publication by the Real. Ac. Ercol.) There are some fine drawings 1. Relazione sui Papiri Ercolanese by Prof. of the Frescoes in W. Ternite, Wandgemdlde von Domenico Comparetti, being a paper read in 1878 Pompei und Herkulanum, 1839. before the Reale Accademia dei Lincei : published in 4. Winckelmann, Recueil de Lettres sur les dicouv- 1883 in La Villa Ercolanese dei Pisoni, by D. ' ertesfaites a Herkulanum. 1784. Paris. Comparetti and Giulio de Petra. (Translated from the German of 1764.) (Followed by a catalogue of all the papyri un- And several othei works by the same author. published at that date.) 5. Helbig, Untersuchungen iiber die Campanische 2. A complete catalogue with notes as to size, Wandmalerei, Leipsic, 1873. condition, etc. of the 1806 rolls and fragments, by , Wandgemdlde der vom Vesuv verschiitteten Dr. Emilio Martini, 1882. Stddte Campaniens, Leipsic, 1868. Printed in La Villa Ercolanese. 6. Mau, Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei 3. Herculanensium Voluminum quae supersunt: in Pompei, Berlin 1882. Collectio Prior, 1793-1850, nine volumes. 7. Wickhoff, Roman Art, translated by Mrs. Arthur 4. Herculanensium Voluminum quae supersunt: f Strong, London, 1901. Collectio Altera, 1862-1876, eleven volumes. (For Pompeian wall paintings.) 5. • Herculanensium Voluminum Pars Prima and 8. Furtwangler, Masterpieces of Greek Sculphire Pars Secunda, 1824-1825, Clarendon Press : being a (translated by Eugenie Sellers), London, 1895. catalogue of the Oxford Papyri, together with a (Many of the Herculaneum sculptures are noticed fac-simile of seven which appeared subsequently in in this book.) the Collectio Prior and the Collectio Altera. 9. Collignon, Histoire de la Sculpture Grecque, 6. Fragmenta Herculanensia by Walter Scott, 1885 : Paris, 1897. being a descriptive catalogue of the Oxford copies of 10. Rayet, Monuments de V Art Antique, Paris, 1880. the rolls, the text of three hitherto unpublished (Good reproductions of many of the Herculaneum papyri, and an invaluable historical introduction. sculptures, with letterpress by various authors.) 7. Herculaneum Fragments, 1891 : being printed 11. Bernoulli, Griechische Ikonographie, Munich, from Hayter's fac-similes in the Bodleian. It 1901. contains 36 plates of engravings of texts and (With bibliography: for the identification of the alphabets. busts.) 8. Herculaneum Fragments, 1889 : in nine volumes, 12. Bernoulli, Rb'mische Ikonographie, 4 vols. Stutt- being photographs of the Oxford fac-similes un- , 1882-1894. published at that date. There are photographs of (For the identification of the busts.) 82 papyri, and the volumes contain 827 pages. / 13. Visconti, Iconographie Grecque. 9. A Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts : Iconographie Romaine. Paris, 1808- in a letter of 1800 and in a second letter to H.R.H. 1829. the Prince of Wales, by the Rev. John Hayter, (Also Biraun and Arndt, Brunn, Baumeister, etc.) London, 1811. 10. Philodemi Epicurei de Ira Liber, Theodor F.—Inscriptions. Gomperz, Leipsic, 1864, and other works edited by various scholars. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Volume X. Pt. I. 11. Herkulanische Studien, Theodor Gomperz, pp. 156-170. Edited by Mommsen. Berlin, 1883. Leipsic, 1865. 8 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
12. Officina de' Papiri Descritta, by A. de Jorio, drawings of Cochin and Bellicard. (Ruggiero, Tav. 1825. viii.) Cochin also gives a plan of the two Temples (An excellent general account of the finding of the opposite the Basilica. Ruggiero, in his reproduction, papyri, their condition, the method of opening them, reverses the position of the two. illustrated.) "^••Jl The Houses. 13. Notice sur les Manuscrits Trouvis a Hercula- num, }. Boot, Amsterdam, 1841. (Similar to De For the houses at Resina, the plans of Bonucci Jorio's book.) (Ruggiero, Tav. xii.) 14. Letters of Camillo Paderni, keeper of the General Plans. Museum at Portici to various correspondents, trans- For the general plan of the city we have La Vega's lated and published in Philosophical Transactions, plan, reproduced in Ruggiero, Tav. ii. This is not the work of a single man, but the sum of the work of j 15. Edinburgh Review, vol. xlviii, 1828, p. 348. past engineers. 16. Philosophical Transactions, 1821 (for Sir A useful plan of the modern district was made 1/ Humphrey Davy's Paper). under the direction of La Vega (Ruggiero, Tav. i.) Weber gives a plan (printed in Ruggiero) of the THE PLANS. Temple of the Mother of the Gods. The Theatre. The House of the Papyri. Of the Theatre we have records of twenty plans and drawings, of which most have been lost. For the house of the Papyri we have the two Two only of these have been engraved on copper original plans which were at first kept in the Grande plate. Archivio di Stato : of these the chief is Carlo Weber's Plan. On this are marked the tunnels made in the The most interesting is Weber's plan, dated 1747, excavation, the more important pillars to support the published in the Bulletina Archeologico Napolitano, superincumbent mass, and the precise position of the by Minervini, in 1861 (May) and reproduced by statues excavated, and an indication of the nature of Ruggiero, Tav. iv. the floors (mosaic or marble). This plan gives the original subterranean ways made by the Prince d'Elbceuf in 1713. It was begun in July 1750 : in 1758 it was aban- A second plan by Weber of 1751 gives the recon- doned, but the position of the statues is only marked struction of the Theatre (Ruggiero, Tav. iii.) up to the year 1754 ; about half the total number of statues are marked in Weber's plan. He also accom- A third plan correcting some of the inaccuracies of panied his map with explanatory notes. The map is Weber's plan is given by Ruggiero himself from reproduced in Comparetti's monograph, who has measurements on the spot. (Ruggiero, Tav. iv.) added in red the position of the remaining statues Basilica, Temples, and Columbarium. from other rough plans, and documentary evidence. For the Basilica and Columbarium we have the E. R. BARKER.
ON THE PAEANS OF PINDAR.
(GRENFELL AND HUNT, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, PART V, PP. 24-81.)
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