CLAS 145b Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Barberini Family, Praxiteles, Pergamon Altar
2 Nov 2017
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The statue of wealth by kephisodotos (370 bce) is not very expressive (face) and the pose is static with drapery that gives few indications of the body. This statue borrows many characteristics from the preceding classical period. Lysippos was essential in the transition from the classical style to the hellenistic style. His works are some of the most copied. His works were in bronze, and he maintained a large workshop with many students. Herakles (baths of caracalla) is massive with exaggerated musculature, and is shown looking down with his weight being supported as a means of revealing him as an exhausted and humanized hero. Lysippos depicted alexander as a god like figure with lion like features (wild hair). Bronze objects were created using the lost wax method. The original was made by either praxiteles or alexandros. The head is tilted with an open" torso, and the drapery was meant to be seen in 3d.
