The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

228 THE GREEKS FIGURE 47a Archaic kouros Source:Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund 1932 (32,11.1) http://www.eb ...

ART 229 FIGURE 47b Critian boy Source:Acropolis Museum, Athens Hellenic Ministry of Culture/Archaeological Receipts Fund ...

The Classical period (fifth and fourth centuries) Classical developments in the fifth century The kourosdiscovered by archaeolog ...

ART 231 FIGURE 48 Olympian Apollo Source:Olympia Museum Ilia, Greece ...

exaggeratedly long, for effect?) and the legs, with the weight of the body balanced onthe heel of one foot and the ball of the o ...

ART 233 FIGURE 51 Myron: discoboulos Source:Terme, Rome ...

Red-figure innovation in pottery The figures of the Exekian vase are painted in black silhouette upon the red clay of the pot. T ...

ART 235 the backward stretch of the arm and the curve of the back foot – is roughly circular. The handle of the pail and the han ...

shields is not designed, as in the painting of Exekias, to blend in with the contours of the vase but is clearly a naturalistic ...

the ground and one on his spears. The fourth figure clasping his leg is in a sitting position even though he does not appear to ...

appearance would not come up to expectation. If, on the other hand, the same thing were to happen to Athens, one would conjectur ...

The Spartans would have nothing to do with the plan, so the Pan-Hellenic congress never took place. But Pericles went ahead with ...

240 THE GREEKS FIGURE 55b Drawing of Ionic order FIGURE 55a cornice Drawing of Doric order frieze architrave capital Imetopetrig ...

ART 241 FIGURE 55c Drawing of a Corinthian capital FIGURE 55d Sectional drawing of the reconstructed Parthenon FRIEZE METOPES PE ...

Religious ceremonies were performed at an altar in the open air. The function of the temple was to house the cult statue of the ...

ART 243 FIGURE 56a The Parthenon Source:Courtesy of Richard Stoneman FIGURE 56b The temple of Poseidon (now thought to be a temp ...

Apart from the ravages of time, the building suffered two particular disasters. The first occurred when it was converted into a ...

ART 245 British Museum, has sparked a long running controversy in which the Greek govern- ment seeks their return. Sculptures of ...

246 THE GREEKS FIGURE 57 Polyclitus: doryphoros Source:Museo Nazionale, Napoli, with permission of the Ministero per i beni arch ...

The book does not survive, but from accounts of it and quotations in other authors it is clear that the sculptor thought the sec ...