Post on 01-Jan-2016
C H A P T E R 5
HIGH AND LATE CLASSICAL
HISTORY
• Pericles started the Acropolis• Struggle for power• Dang those Persians• Humanism is more in the forefront
EARLY CLASSICAL
• Riace• Charioteer• Kritios Boy• Discobolos• Zeus
460 BCE
Bronze
6’6” high
RIACE WARRIOR
470 BCE
Bronze 5’11”
Sanctuary of Apollo
CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI
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4 8 0 BC E , AC R O P O L I S 2 ’ 1 0 ” H I G H
KRITIOS BOY
460-450 BCE
Bronze
Cape Artemision, Greece
ZEUS (OR POSEIDON?)
Myron
450 BCE
Marble
5’1”
Copy
DISCOBOLOS
Polykleites
450BCE
Marble
6’11”
Roman copies
DORYPHOROS
PERICLES
• Ran stuff• Built Acropolis• Perhaps the most
beloved ever• Had a weird
shaped head so they covered it
HEGESO STELE
• Dipylon Cemetery• 400 BCE• 5’2” high• Marble
LATE CLASSICAL SCULPTURE
Praxiteles
350 BCE
6’8” high
Marble
APHRODITE OF KNIDOS
PRAXITELES
• Hermes and the infant Dionysus • Apollo
Marble
Ilissos River
Notice how it is in complete relief
LATE CLASSICAL STELE
Lysippos
330 BCE
Marble
6’9”
Selected as scupltor of Alexander
Wanted it viewed from angles
APOXYMENOS
LYSIPPOSWeary
Herakles• Copy of an earlier
marble work• Stood in Rome at
Caracalla• Apples of the
Hesperides in right hand
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Head of Alexander
• I place the earth under my sway; you, O Zeus, keep Olympus. • Cocky
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P H I LOX E N E S O F E R E T R I A 3 1 0 BC E
BATTLE OF ISSUS
HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE
EPIGONOS
Gallic Chieftain killing himself and his wife
• Torques
Dying Gaul
COMPARE
190 BCE
Marble
8’1” high
Louvre
NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE
Alexandros of Antioch
VENUS DE MILO
230 BCE & 150 BCE
Marble and Bronze
7ft & 3 ft
SLEEPING SATYR AND SLEEPING EROS
100 BCE
4’2” high
Rome Copy
SEATED BOXER
Polyeuktos
280 BCE
Marble, Roman copy
DEMOSTHENES
150 BCE
4’2” high
The Met
OLD MARKET WOMAN
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes
7’10” high
Vatican
LAOCOON AND HIS SONS