4th Century Classical Statues

Question 1

Plutos and Eirene, dates?

Answer 1

375 BC?

Question 2

Plutos and Eirene, 2 points of analysis?

Answer 2

• humanises the Gods through the maternal interaction between them.
• Symbolic message that peace is the mother of wealth therefore wealth can only exist in peace, therefore anti-peloponisian war message

Question 3

Aphrodite of Knidos-Tholos, Dates?

Answer 3

350 BC

Question 4

Aphrodite of Knidos-Tholos, 2 points of analysis?

Answer 4

• Has a contraposto pose and is meant to look half-heartedly modest. Praxiteles is mocking her promiscuity and therefore humanising her.

-Voyeuristic element, as you are either watching her or watching her watch someone.

Question 5

Hermes and the infant Dionysus, dates?

Answer 5

350 BC

Question 6

Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, 2 points of analysis?

Answer 6

• Pose mirrors his father’s Plutos and Eirene, in contraposto pose and interaction.
• Exaggerated contraposto makes him look languid and his facial features are more delicate than the 5th Century.

Question 7

Antikythera Youth, dates?

Answer 7

320 BC

Question 8

Antikythera youth, 2 points of analysis?

Answer 8

• Is reaching out with his right arm and therefore interacting with viewer and breaking the frontal plane, takes away frontal emphasis and forced you to go all around the statue.

Question 9

Apollo Sauroktonos, dates?

Answer 9

350 BC

Question 10

Apollo Sauroktonos, 2 points of analysis?

Answer 10

• Portrays him as killing the lizard because he can, therefore making him seem like a nasty boy and humanising him.
• the exaggerated contraposto and adrogyneous gender makes him seem more malevolent.