Architectural sculpture Flashcards
Three points of analysis about the Temple of Artemis’ Pediment at Corcyra?
580 BC
- Awkward three quarter turn to gorgon medusa is clearly archaic
- issue with size partially resolved by the medusa being a god and therefore huge but then foiled by the overly large corpses in the end.
- Good use of monstrous quadrupeds to fill scale, but there is a break down in theme.
Three points of analysis about the Western Pediment from the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina?
490 BC
- Tells the story for the battle of the Heracles trojan war
- a consistent theme throughout with war as a unifying theme for both of them.
- Athena isn’t actively involved in it as if she’s above it,
Three points of analysis about the Eastern pediment from the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina?
500 BC
- Depicts Homer’s Trojan war
- God in the apex
- Archaic symmetry with the shields and corpses in the corner with archaic smiles
Three points of analysis about the Temple of Zeus at Olympia’s Eastern Pediment?
460 BC
- Tells story of Pelops and Oenemaos’ chariot race.
- God’s depicting rivers in the corner with fluid twists
- Non-idealised male in the Seer of Oenemaos who also breaks sohprosyne with anxious expression.
Three points of analysis on the Parthenon’s Eastern Pediment?
440 BC
- Depicts Athene’s birth, has 2 deities in the middle with zeus sitting down for scale purposes.
- rippling awareness through, very innovative.
- Obscene drapery
Three points of analysis on the Western Pediment at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia?
460 Bc
- Apollo in the Apex with sophron expression
- Depicts the centauromachy, another greek triumph over barbarity.
- The vicious dynamism contrasts the static Eastern Pediment.
Three points of analysis about the Western Pediment of the Parthenon?
440 BC
- Depicts the story depicting the Patronage of Athens
Three points of analysis about the Temple ‘C’ at Selena’s Heracles and the Kerkopes metope.
550 BC
- Patterned hair
- Archaic smiles
- Symmetrical compositional pattern
Three points of analysis about the Nemean Lion metope from the Temple of Zeus’ internal Doric Frieze?
460 BC
- Depicts the story of the Nemean Lion
- Heracles is the central focus with a lion at his feet and two gods framing him
- Lacks dynamism
Three points of analysis from Augean stables metope from the Temple of Zeus’ internal Metope?
460 BC
- Chiastic composition
- parallel lines shows contrast between human and god
- contrast between naked man and clothed deity
Three points of analysis about the Cretan Bull Metope from the Temple of Zeus’ internal Doric Frieze?
460 BC
- chiastic composition.
- dynamic
- Remain fundamentally connected through eye contact so it’s civility looking at it’s dark sexual appetite
Three points of analysis from the Gold Apples of Hesperides metope from the Temple of Zeus?
460 BC
- Three parallel lines
- Athene not helping Heracles per say, but guarding him in case he drops the world
- Shows balance between mind and strength
Three points of analysis from Metope 26 from the Parthenon?
440 BC
- Depicts Centauromachy with inverted v composition, - Lapith savagely kicks at centaur
- babd proportions with centaur’s neck
- Interesting drapery that’s a bit bad
Metope 27 analysis from Parthenon?
440 BC
- Cateneries with drapery
- Lapith is about to plunge
- Very high relief
Metope 28 analysis from Parthenon?
440 BC
- Centaur madly beats chest
- Lapith nudity adds to his vulnerability in the moment
- Hubris celebration from a hubris creature
Three points of analysis from the Ionic frieze from the Siphnian treasury?
525 BC
- East is gods discussion Trojan war, North is the gigantomachy
- East is very archaic
- North is a very good contrast between the low and high stakes of god and mortal battle
Parthenon ionic frieze analysis?
440 BC
- Has 6 possible influences:
- Daughter or Erechtus
- Persian
- Marathon dead
- The Great Panathenaia
- Idealised Epheboi to celebrate the virility and health of Athenians
Analysis from Temple of Apollo at Base Ionic frieze internal, Amazonomachy?
425 BC
- diagonal composition lines
- amazons carrying dead are humanised
- cartoonish drapery that adds to the effect
