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Youth Diving,
ca. 480 BCE
True fresco on limestone slab, 3’ 4” high
Tomb of the Diver
Paestum
compare to sculpture of Dying Warrior at Temple of Aphaia, same time period |
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a receding shape on a flat surface
--the eye, the hands of Youth Diving
Foreshortening is a technique used in perspective to create the illusion of an object receding strongly into the distance or background. |
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reconstruction,
Tomb of the Diver, Paestum.
True fresco on limestone slabs,
bedrock floor, 7’ 1” long. |
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Symposium scene,
north wall,
Tomb of the Diver,
ca. 480 BCE
notice the foreshortening on the shoulders |
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NIOBID PAINTER -
Artemis & Apollo slay the children of Niobe,
ca. 450 BCE
Athenian red-figure calyx krater, earthenware, 1’9” high |
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PHIALE PAINTER - Hermes bringing the infant Dionysos to Papposilenos,
ca. 440 – 435 BCE
Athenian
white-ground calyx krater, earthenware, 1’ 2” high |
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Dionysos(?),
ca. 438 – 432,
east pediment,
Parthenon
similar to painted figure on the side of the painted vessel depicting 'Hermes bringing infant dionysos to papposilenos' |
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ACHILLES PAINTER - Warrior taking leave of his wife,
ca. 440 BCE
Athenian
white-ground lekythos, earthenware, 1’ 5” high
notice similarities to the 'Lapith woman' on the metope of the parthenon |
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Hades abducts Persephone
wall paintings, Tomb 1,
Vergina, Greece
Mid-fourth century (mid-300s) BCE
Painted area 3’ 3.5” high |
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Demeter (persephones mother)
wall paintings, Tomb 1,
Vergina, Greece
Mid-fourth century (mid-300s) BCE
Painted area 3’ 3.5” high |
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PRAXITELES, Aphrodite of Knidos,
marble original
ca. 350 – 340 BCE
Roman marble copy, 6’ 8” high |
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PRAXITELES - Head of the Aphrodite of Knidos
Marble original
ca. 350 – 340 BCE
Unusually good Roman marble copy |
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LYSIPPOS - Apoxyomenos,
bronze original
ca. 330 BCE
Late Classical
compare to doryphoros by polykleitos (450 - 440),
note the difference in contrapposto of the two figures, one is from the classical period and one from the late classical |
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face of LYSIPPOS - Apoxyomenos,
bronze original
ca. 330 BCE
Late Classical
note similarities to the face of the woman on the Athens grave stele (340 - 330) done in the Skopas style, as well as Doryphoros (450 - 440) |
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LYSIPP0S - Weary Herakles,
bronze original
ca. 320 BCE
Roman marble
copy, 10’ 5” high
compare to Apoxyomenos also by Lysippos
notice the switch to a more full figured, experienced, grizzled character rather than the young, sleek character |
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reverse of Weary Herakles,
bronze original
ca. 320 BCE
Roman marble
copy, 10’ 5” high
broader shoulders, fuller figure, tired, contemplating stance |
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PRAXITELES? - Hermes and the Infant Dionysos,
later copy of Praxiteles from ca. 340 BCE, |
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| similar to hermes and dionysos by praxiteles (340) |
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Papposilenos holding Dionysos,
ca. 340 – 250 BCE
Baked clay (terracotta) with white slip,
5” high,
from Tanagra |
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