Ancient Greece- Late Classical

Question 1

Answer 1

Aphrodite of Knidos, (Praxiteles) 4 BCE

Medium

• Marble copy

Function

• Composite work of marble copies
• Represent Godess of love and beauty
• sense of narraitve

Appearance

• naked
  
  • about to bath
  • robe placed on urn
  • females are supposed to be covered
• Godess of love and beuty
  
  • ideal form
  • perfect proportions
  • physical beuty part of attributes
• carved in the round
• Modest or false modest
  
  • sensuous

Question 2

Answer 2

Man Scraping Himself (Lysippos) 4 BCE

Medium

• marble copy

Function

• represent ideal male
• show beauty and logic in athletic body
• depict naturalism and idealism

Appearance

• 1 to 8 proportion
  
  • more slender
• neutral expression
• short curly hair
• controposto
  
  • extends/breaks away from torso plane
• fig leaf later addition
• nude
  
  • athletic ideal of beauty/truth
• naked because of excersise
  
  • about to bathe
• scraping away sweat/dirt

Question 3

Answer 3

Alexander the Great 4BCE

Medium

• Roman mosaic copy of Greek painting

Function

• attempted to glorify alexander
  
  • realistic figures
  • shows heroism
  • elicits emotional response

Appearance

• figures modeled with light and shadow
• shows alexander in forshortening
• 3D forms extend into space
• art was favored by kingdoms and city states
• acanthus leaves
• digagnols draw in viewer