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Kritios Boy
Classical Style
Date: 480 BCE
Details: no arms or fee, R leg cut off at the knee, decaptitated head by Greeks in order to take away power and life of the sculpture, 1st contrapposto seen in a statue |
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The Parthenon
Classical Style
Date: 447-438 BCE
Details: Iktinos and Kallicrates, architiects while sculptures under the direction of Phidias. The Parthenon is a Dorric tmeple, is not mathematically perfect (the base is curved and the columns are not equally spaced apart) but it looks even. Contained metophes of half animal and man beings. |
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Polykleitos, Spear-Bearer (Doryphoros or "the Canon)
Classical Style
Date: mid 5th century BCE
Details: this was a more accurate full body sculpture |
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Hermes and Dionysos and Aphrodites of Knidos
Classical Style
Details: artist is Praxitele, sensaul approach of the body, softness of the skin by smoothing out details of the anatomy, stretched out dimensions shows contrapposto in a different way |
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Battle of Issus
Hellenistic
Date: 310 BCE
Details: An image of Alex the Great defeating the Persians, there is 3D shading in the faces |
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Dying Gaul
Hellenistic
Date: 230-220 BCE
Details: Artist Pergamon, there is an emotional quality, face shows pain and blood dripping from the side |
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Nike of Samothrace
Hellenistic
Date: 190 BCE
Details: shows the drama of the era, the statue was used a victory figure for the bow of the ship, depicts wind in marble |
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Laocoon
Hellenstic
Date: early first century CE |
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Artemis Slaying the Chidlren of Niobe
Hellenistic
Date: mid 5th century BCE
Details: artist Niobid, pottery painting; shows accending figures not attached to ground line |
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Temple of Athena Nike
Hellenistic
Date: 427-424 BCE
Details: The statue is near the entrance of Acropolis, ionic order, continuous friezes |
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