Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

M onumental bronze statues such as the Riace warrior (FIG. 5-35), the Delphi charioteer (FIG. 5-37), and the Artemi- sion god (F ...

Statues,” page 122), and FIG. 5-36), with inlaid eyes, silver teeth and eyelashes, and copper lips and nipples (FIG. I-17). The ...

far exceeded the supply of Greek statues that a veritable industry was born to meet the call for Greek statuary to display in pu ...

left hand, one from the head to the right knee), creating the impres- sion of a tightly stretched bow a moment before the string ...

for abbreviated copies of famous statues. The herm is inscribed “Pericles, son of Xanthippos, the Athenian,” leaving no doubt as ...

kleitos were kindred spirits in their belief that beautiful proportions resulted from strict adherence to harmonious numerical r ...

in turn, dictated the width of the facade—eight columns at a time when six columns were the norm. Athena was fully armed with sh ...

hand, but the full set suggests that the battle was a difficult one against a dangerous enemy and that losses as well as victori ...

PARTHENON: IONIC FRIEZE In many ways the most re- markable part of the Parthenon’s sculptural program is the inner Ionic frieze ...

self-important, some might say. They were the masters of an empire, and in Pericles’ famous funeral oration he painted a picture ...

5-53), built to the north of the old temple’s remains, was, however, to be a multiple shrine. It honored Athena and housed the a ...

atids (FIG. 5-54) replaced Ionic columns, as they did a century ear- lier on the Ionic Siphnian Treasury (FIG. 5-18) at Delphi. ...

commissions were available in the city, notably in the Dipylon cemetery. There, around 400BCE, a beautiful and touching grave st ...

wife. The red scarf, mirror, and jug hanging on the wall behind the woman indicate that the setting is the interior of their hom ...

and Artemis. To punish Niobe’s hubris (arrogance) and teach the les- son that no mortal could be superior to a god or goddess, L ...

regularly on Greek vases. On the tomb’s ceiling (FIG. 5-61), a youth dives from a stone platform into a body of water. The scene ...

statue of Hermes and the infant Dionysos (FIG. 5-63) brings to the realm of monumental statuary the theme the Phiale Painter had ...

his frail old age. Most remarkable of all, the hunter himself looks out at the viewer, inviting sympathy and creating an emotion ...

Pompeii, Lysippos’s muscle-bound Greek hero provided inspiration for Romans who came to the baths to exercise. (The copyist,Glyk ...

uncovered at Pella in the homes of the wealthy. The Pella mosaics are pebble mosaics.The floors consist of small stones of vario ...