CLAS 3P25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hubris, Artemision Bronze, Homoeroticism
27 Jan 2017
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Beginning of severe style and the last of the archaic kouroi. Very beginning of contrapposto pose: breaks static frontality of earlier kouroi. Looks like it can move = potential and dynamism (even with a static piece, it"s a manipulating pose showing us he"s capable of movement: rythmos. Damage decapitated and wear indicates some exposure. Some markings on his neck, he could have been hit with an axe of a piece of metal. It was thought - this must have been up on display in the acropolis and then destroyed in the. Persian sacks and then buried to save it from its misery because it was damaged. Hes very difficult to date we want to date him because then we can officially say when the classical period began. Eyes are inlaid, usually in bronze sculptures so this is very unusual. They worked in bronze and this one was in marble but still some similarities because of the eyes.
