Lecture 13 - Free standing relief and sculpture

Question 1

E.g. Cow

Answer 1

Myron, original 450 BCE, set up on Athenian Acropolis, is a Roman marble copy. Significant as the only focus is an animal, highly detailed and realistic representation.

Question 2

E.g. Discobolos

Answer 2

Myron, original 450 BCE, Roman marble copy 2nd c BCE. Multiple view points, detail in muscular definition - detail of veins.

Question 3

E.g. Riace Warriors A and B

Answer 3

Eponymous heroes of Athens or Greek heroes at Troy, bronze originals 450 BCE by Phidias. Contraposto Warrior A has copper lips, silver teeth, inlaid stone eyes.

Question 4

E.g. Doryphoros (spear bearer)

Answer 4

Marble Roman copy of Greek bronze original 450 BCE. Would have been holding a spear. Figure doing the chiastic pose. Similar to that of the Achiilles painter amphora of 445 BCE.

Question 5

E.g. Diadumenos (fillet binder)

Answer 5

Polykleitos, marble Roman copy of bronze original, 430 BCE. Found on Delos in the so-called house of the Diadumenos.

Question 6

E.g. Nike of Paionios

Answer 6

By Paionios of Mendes, 425-420 BCE. Commissioned by the Messenians and Naupaktians to commemorate the capture of Spartans on Sphakteria. Found at Olympia.

Question 7

E.g. Marble funerary relief

Answer 7

Ampharete and grandchild in a naiskos. Possibly by Agorakritos. 430-420 BCE.