Greek Sculpture cont.

Greek Sculpture Continued

DORYPHOROS (copy)

-Polyklietos     -5th sentury B.C.     -Bronze      -Greece

tensel strength – ability of the material to support its own weight

Tretus – work of writing                                                                *Polyklietus decides to put down his work of howto make sculptors and proportion. He named the demonstration Canon.

STANDING WARRIOR

-450 B.C.  (High Century)    -Bronze      -Greece

A lot of attention to detail was forming in the sculpture and used shell or bone and paste to make the eyes                                                                                                                                   Dramatic controposto and added heavy concentration on hair and mouth

ZEUS OF ARTEMESIAN

-460 B.C. (High Century)     -Bronze     -Greece

APHRODITE OF KNIDOS

-Praxitelis     -350 B.C. (Late century)      – Marble    – Greece

*this piece marks the time for female nudes                                    *Showed her after or before bathing to ease minds into the female nude

*Lysippos was responsible for representing Alexander the Great

APOXYOMENOS (the scraper)

-Lysippos

-This sculpture was meant to represent a tool of the greek athletes called a scraper.  Althletes put oil on their bodies and then used a scraper to clean up.

-Fun Fact:  Women would buy the excess off of the men as an arousal substance