The Severe Period: 480- 450 BC

• simplicity of forms, especially clothes, and absence of decoration;

• a feeling of heaviness both in the body and the material of the peplos;

• characters are harmonic and idealised;• beauty is conceived as the proportion among the parts;• images reflected the forms of dynamism;not static• simmetry is broken by the arms;• no fixed Archaic smile • Sculptors try to express emotions in their works; • many works are known through Roman copies made in

marble. The Greek originals were in bronze;• the bronze is modelled with the technique of the lost wax.

Three Types of Sculpture

• Archaic : 600 – 480 BC- Severe: 480-450 BC

• Classical: 480 – 323 BC

• Hellenistic: 323 – 31 BC

• WHAT?____________________• WHO?______________________• WHEN?____________________• HOW?

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Arms lifted,not simmetric

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a ribbon

A belt

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Discus (to throw)

Nude/naked

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The statue isLooking to the right

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hoodedcloak

mysterious

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To lean backwards

To lookdownwards

• WHAT?____________________• WHO?______________________• WHEN?____________________• HOW?

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• Description(is it still in good state?)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What’s missing?

To look in front/ahead