Ancient Art and its Remains; or a Manual of the Archeology of Art
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Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst[1] (1830) is a work by Karl Otfried Müller.
It was translated as Ancient Art and its Remains; or a Manual of the Archeology of Art, translated by John Leitch, published in 1850.
The English translations features one of the first instances of the term pornography in English print.
- "We must here by way of appendix refer to the great number of obscene representations (especially the Veneris figurae, on pictures, gems, coins, lasciva numismata, Martial viii 7 78.) to which also mythology gave frequent occasion, see , 137. R 3. It is remarkable that the Volcentine vases usually represent obscene subjects in the oldest style. On the pornographers of the later times . 163, 4."
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