The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

Perhaps Polyclitus, like Plato and others, was influenced by the Pythagorean doctrine that number is the ultimate reality. Thoug ...

together in fifth-century Athens) and also to disguise the onion shape of his head. However near or far it may be from the actua ...

drapery which is less solid than that of the previous age (compare the Olympian Apollo, fig. 48), also adds depth; in the centre ...

enhance form and to suggest movement in a three-dimensional composition is one of the many techniques perfected in the classical ...

252 THE GREEKS FIGURE 62 Marble sculpture of Iris from the Parthenon’s west pediment, 438–432 BC, 1816,0610.96 Source: Photo © T ...

Zeuxis mistakenly asked for it to be drawn aside, thinking that Parrhasius’ painting was behind it (35, 65). The anecdote sugges ...

from his most famous vase depicting Achilles and Briseis, to whom are also attributed a number of white ground funeral vases cal ...

ART 255 FIGURE 63 Lekythos by the Achilles-painter Source: Antikensammlung, Munich: von Schoen Collection ...

completes the main curving sequence that begins with the incline of the head and flows through the body in a most satisfying way ...

ART 257 FIGURE 64 Praxiteles: Hermes Source:Olympia Museum , Ilia, Greece ...

258 THE GREEKS The Hermes was not particularly famous in antiquity, but Praxiteles was the author of what, after the Zeus of Phe ...

ART 259 FIGURE 65 Praxiteles: Aphrodite Source:Vatican, Rome ...

modifying the squareness of the figure of the old sculptors, and he used commonly to say that whereas his predecessors had made ...

ART 261 FIGURE 66 Apoxyomenosafter Lysippus (Roman copy) Source:©The Bridgeman Art Library, courtesy of Getty Images ...

praised for the way in which, unlike those of Myron and Polyclitus, no one view predominates; its dynamism has to be appreciated ...

their inspiration and model the Athenian Acropolis. The identity of the god to whom the great altar is dedicated has been disput ...

of the Hellenising Attalids over their real and potential enemies, the Galatai and Persians. The frieze can be regarded as a pow ...

ART 265 Parallels can be made with the sculptures of the Parthenon but there are also major differences. The Elgin marbles have ...

faces of the two goddesses survived, they would doubtless have looked down in triumphant anticipation. The two sets of wings for ...

confrontation. There are no straight lines; the only clear shape is the roundness of the shield. Otherwise the swirling composit ...