Ancient Greek Art III: Late Classical & Hellenistic Art

Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (Scraper)

• Roman marble copies, og bronze
• Apoxyomenos = scraper
• Dude is scraping sweat off his body (using a stigil)
• Lysippos= fav sculpture of Alexander the Great
• Elongated proportions, introducing new canon of proportions like extending the height by 8 heads
• One of the best examples of contrapposto

What is the common characteristic of Hellenistic Art?

• More life like, more realistic
• Very dramatic, exaggerated features & poses

Corinthian capital is made by

• Kallimachos after seeing a basket of leaves on a young man's grave

Reconstructed west front of the Altar of Zeus, from Pergamon, Turkey

• The frieze shows a bunch of figures, almost 400 ft long
• Figures are overlapped, causing visual chaos
• Expresion & pose is very dramatic
• Battle of the gods & giants

Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace)

• Nike= victory
• Woman personified as victory
• Body is seen through the clothes
• Wings & clothing flows back dramatically

Seated Boxer

• Good example of Hellenistic art
• Made of bronze (found in an architectural site)
• Defeated look, posture is crouched
• Cauliflower ears, broken nose, scarred face = depicts the old defeated boxer

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes,
Laocoön and his sons

• Found in Rome
• Dramatic scene = snake wrapped the 3 subjects, which are fighting the snake
• Story of Laocoön

What happened to Laocoön?

Laocoön was warning the Trojans about bringing the Greeks' wooden horse into the city. A goddess sent snakes to attack him and his sons to stop him from warning the Trojans, leading to the Greeks' victory