Late Classical Art: Fourth Century

  • Round Temple: Tholi (plural) Tholos (singular)
  • Praxiteles: Athenian Artist commissioned for statues of Aphrodite
  • Praxiteles’s style: Melting Gaze, Crinkly hair, Marble material, polished face
  • Aphrodite of Knidos: first major showing of a Goddess in the nude
    • getting in/out of bath
  • Important Character of Classical Art: Soft Sensuality
  • Lysippos: Rival to Praxiteles
  • Lysippos’s style: taller slender figures, hyper naturalistic
  • Theatre by Polykleitos the Younger: built with acoustics in mind, carved into a hillside, used for rituals dedicated to Dionysus
  • Orchestra: the dancing place
  • Skene: 2 parts, wall facing orchestra had painted panels for set designs, inside part for storage
  • Cuneus: the viewing place