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11/30/2012

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New York Kouros

  • 1.94m (Lifesize)
  • Marble
  • 590-580BC
  • Wig like hair
  • Clenched fists
  • Thin waist
  • Feet one infront of the other
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 Berlin Kore

  • 1.18m (Below lifesize)
  • White marble (originally painted)
  • 570-560BC
  • Detailed folds in dress
  • Detailed hands, jewelry 
  • Was wrapped in sheet of lead to prevent theft, maybe important figure?
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Peplos Kore

  • White marble (Originally painted)
  • 1.18m (Below lifesize)
  • 530BC
  • Archaic smile
  • Wig-like hair
  • Youthful
  • More detailed facial features
  • Stone sculpture becoming more sophisticated
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Anavysos Kouros

  • White marble (originally painted)
  • 530-520BC
  • Clenched fists
  • Feet one infront of the other
  • Archaic smile
  • Better facial features
  • Abs look more real
  • Thighs too thick
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Tyrannicides

  • Marble (originally bronze)
  • 2.03m (lifesize)
  • 509BC
  • Wig like hair
  • Exaggerated hips
  • Killed a tyrant, leading to democracy
  • Symettrical
  • Realistic feet
  • Anatomically correct
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Kritios Boy

  • Sculptor: Kritios
  • 1.17m (Below lifesize)
  • 480BC
  • Parian marble (with inlaid eyes)
  • First portrayal of contrapposto
  • Transitional
  • Slight archaic smile
  • Realistic looking muscles, though overly long thigh
  • Overexaggerated v-line at the hip
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Delphi Charioteer

  • Bronze
  • 2.03m (lifesize)
  • 474BC
  • Hasn't started race, not showing hubiris. Neck shows breathing in and feet gripping; antipcation
  • Realistic feet and hands
  • Hugely detailed drapery
  • Oiled down hair
  • Rounded features suggest youth
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Artemision Bronze

  • Sculptor: Kalamis
  • 2.09 (above lifesize)
  • 460BC
  • Intricate hair and beard
  • Holds either trident or lightning bolt; zeus or poseidon
  • Raw power and awe that only a God could have, directing his wrath
  • Contrapposto, thorax isn't twisted, pecs don't move with shoulder, legs too long
  • Hugely detailed muscles
  • Pan-Hellenic ideal of power, strength and wrath to aspire to
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Riace Warriors

  • Bronze
  • 1.98m (Slightly over lifesize)
  • 450BC
  • Contrapposto with rhythmos shown
  • Deep grooves in abs, musculature shown in detail
  • Both originally held shields
  • Tailbone is missing, perhaps to improve beauty of the back
  • Legs are too long
  • Helmet on one, oiled hair on the other
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Myron's Diskobolos

  • Sculptor: Myron
  • Marble (originally bronze)
  • 1.7m (Below lifesize)
  • Dynamism, action anticipated through tension, toes bent, veins are shown on one arm focused on the discus
  • Pecs don't move with arms, ribs turn into the arm well
  • Concentration, self-control, hubris
  • Rhythmos shown
  • Advance of classical sculpture from archaic
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Polykleitos' Doryphoros

  • Marble (originally bronze)
  • 2.1m (above lifesize)
  • 450-440BC 
  • Veins in the arms visible, musculature is immense
  • Vertical and horizontal symmetry
  • Contrapposto
  • Knee joint sticks out
  • Used to hold a spear
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Paionios' Nike

  • Parian marble (originally painted)
  • 2.16m, 3m with wingspan (above lifesize)
  • 420BC
  • Slightly undressed in a sensual way, audience will undress her with their eyes
  • Drapery realistic, flows behind her leg
  • Stoon on a pillar 10m tall outside temple of Zeus, viewed from below imposed a dramatic and terrifying figure
  • Stepping forward, as if landing from flight
  • Material is thin, sometimes see-through, enhancing sensuality of the figure
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Eirene and Ploutos

  • Sculptor: Kephisodotos
  • 1.77m (Lifesize)
  • Marble (Originally bronze)
  • 375-374BC
  • Goddess of spring and peace
  • Ploutos gazes trustingly at her, she maternally looks down with love
  • Drapery accents her breasts and is realistic in its folds
  • Once held a cornucopia full of food but has since been lost
  • Very realistic hair
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Knidian Aphrodite

  • Sculptor: Praxiteles 
  • Marble
  • 2m (Slightly over lifesize)
  • 350BC
  • Depicts goddess of love bathing to restore her purity
  • Audience is turned into voyeur of her, she peers round a tree to look at them
  •  Her nakedness puts an element of vulnerability sensuality on the piece, making the audience in control rather than the figure
  • Wants to show the Gods with character and a story rather than the accepted view
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Apollo Sauroktonos

  • Sculptor: Praxiteles
  • Parian marble
  • 1.49m (Just below lifesize)
  • 343-330BC
  • Three quarter view feminine face with realistich hair
  • Depicts the god deep in thought, about to kill the lizard
  • Feminised body, very little musculature 
  • Contrapposto, s-line curve
  • Not for 360 degree viewing
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Hermes and Dionysos

  • Sculptor: Praxiteles 
  • Parian marble
  • 3.72m (Very above lifesize)
  • 343-330BC
  • Extreme contrapposto with a huge s-line curve on the back and rhythmos
  • Hermes was holding grapes up, teasing the future god of wine, Dionysos, shown as baby
  • Strength, graec, gentleness and benevolence - Kenneth Clark
  • Very smooth body, not much musculature shown
  • Thights too long, but rest of body in proportion
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Lysippos' Apoxyomenos

  • Marble (orignally bronze)
  • 2.05m (slightly above lifesize)
  • 330BC
  • Athlete scraping the oil that traps dust and dirt off his body
  • New canon of sculpture, 1:8 ratio of head to body instead of 1:7 + longer, thinner limbs
  • S-curve of body and spine seen
  • More rounded face with realistic hair
  • Lots of creases on neck and forehead, perhaps showing fat rather than muscle
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Marathon Boy

  • Sculptor: Anonymous but in the style of Praxiteles
  • Bronze
  • 1.29m (Below lifesize)
  • 325-300BC
  • Perhaps showing a young Hermes, but could be generic young, achieving athlete
  • S-line curve and 3/4 view face (Praxiteles)
  • Twists head to look at (now lost) object in hand
  • Stone inlayed eyes, soft muscles and overly long arm stretched out
  • Could be leaning against something for support
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