Ancient Greek Art II: Classical Greek

Warrior (Riace Warrior)

- Made of bronze w/ other metals for color, like silver teeth n eyelashes, copper lips

- Standing position is more natural than the Archaic style (Contraposto)

- Nude

- Very detailed face, life like

- Was found in sea, preserving it

Contrapposto

counterbalance, weight shift

Why is there not a lot of metal statues from Ancient Greece?

Because the metal statues were reused for other important stuff like cannonballs and other uses

Myron, Discus Thrower

- Romans made marble copies of the OG bronze (OG is gone)

- Myron= artist who made the OG Discus Thrower

- Best classical art example

- Arc like composition created by the hand to the body

- Muscular body

Polykleitos, Spear Bearer

- Roman marble copy of the OG bronze

- Polykleitos made the OG statue

- Contrapposto position, relax chill pose

- Missing spear

Polykleitos and The Canon of Proportions

- standard of perfection for the human body in regards to proportion

Pericles

Athenian leader, that ordered the reconstruction of Acropolis in Athena after it was sacked by the Persians in 480

Acropolis

high city

Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos), Athens, Greece

- Athena Parthenos= Athena as a young maden

- Math ratio is used to create symmetry and harmony w/ refinements to compensate for visual clarity (basically make it look better)

- Used a refine Doric style with Ionic

- Polychromy

Polychromy

painted in many colors

Parthenos

young maiden, virgin

Phidias, Athena Parthenos

- Athena Parthenos = Athena as unwed young woman

- Og is lost but we know how it would look like because of coins

- This would be in the cella of the Parthenon

Elgin Marbles Controversy

- Sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens is actually owned by the British and is in the British Museum

- Sold to them when Greece was part of the Ottoman empire

Case of Repatriation

Returning the items to its OG place of origin