C H A P T E R 5

HIGH AND LATE CLASSICAL

HISTORY

• Pericles started the Acropolis• Struggle for power• Dang those Persians• Humanism is more in the forefront

EARLY CLASSICAL

• Riace• Charioteer• Kritios Boy• Discobolos• Zeus

460 BCE

Bronze

6’6” high

RIACE WARRIOR

470 BCE

Bronze 5’11”

Sanctuary of Apollo

CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI

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4 8 0 BC E , AC R O P O L I S 2 ’ 1 0 ” H I G H

KRITIOS BOY

460-450 BCE

Bronze

Cape Artemision, Greece

ZEUS (OR POSEIDON?)

Myron

450 BCE

Marble

5’1”

Copy

DISCOBOLOS

Polykleites

450BCE

Marble

6’11”

Roman copies

DORYPHOROS

PERICLES

• Ran stuff• Built Acropolis• Perhaps the most

beloved ever• Had a weird

shaped head so they covered it

HEGESO STELE

• Dipylon Cemetery• 400 BCE• 5’2” high• Marble

LATE CLASSICAL SCULPTURE

Praxiteles

350 BCE

6’8” high

Marble

APHRODITE OF KNIDOS

PRAXITELES

• Hermes and the infant Dionysus • Apollo

Marble

Ilissos River

Notice how it is in complete relief

LATE CLASSICAL STELE

Lysippos

330 BCE

Marble

6’9”

Selected as scupltor of Alexander

Wanted it viewed from angles

APOXYMENOS

LYSIPPOSWeary

Herakles• Copy of an earlier

marble work• Stood in Rome at

Caracalla• Apples of the

Hesperides in right hand

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Head of Alexander

• I place the earth under my sway; you, O Zeus, keep Olympus. • Cocky

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P H I LOX E N E S O F E R E T R I A 3 1 0 BC E

BATTLE OF ISSUS

HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE

EPIGONOS

Gallic Chieftain killing himself and his wife

• Torques

Dying Gaul

COMPARE

190 BCE

Marble

8’1” high

Louvre

NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE

Alexandros of Antioch

VENUS DE MILO

230 BCE & 150 BCE

Marble and Bronze

7ft & 3 ft

SLEEPING SATYR AND SLEEPING EROS

100 BCE

4’2” high

Rome Copy

SEATED BOXER

Polyeuktos

280 BCE

Marble, Roman copy

DEMOSTHENES

150 BCE

4’2” high

The Met

OLD MARKET WOMAN

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes

7’10” high

Vatican

LAOCOON AND HIS SONS