Free Standing- Scholars

Hurwitt- archaic

Impulse of archaic art was to formalise, to pattern, to remake nature in order to make it intelligible

Woodford- archaic

Not only the image of a human being but also a thing of beauty explaining the focus on symmetrical patterns

Spivey- archaic

Korai were sexy- peplos korai

Boardman- developments in early classical

Early classical sculpture removes us from the world of archaic rigidity and pattern into one in which art takes on the task of representing life

Sooke- early classical developments

At the turn of the 5th century BC… the icy archaic kouroi began to thaw as the sculptors invigorated them with a new and believable sense of flesh and blood

Woodford- contraposto

Seriousness as well as equilibrium can be conveyed by applying contrapposto to the female form- Aphrodite of Knidos

Woodford- 4th century development

The 4th century bc saw a revival of interest in naturalism

Spivey- female figures

Praxiteles sculpted the Aphrodite of Knidos for the male gaze