CLAS 3P25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lemnian Athena, Propylaea, Phidias
8 Feb 2017
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Midterm: definitions 2 marks each metope for example. Essay question like how to put the art back together with all that we"ve looked at. Athena lemnia, roman marble copy, c. 450-440 bc, pheidias. Two pieced of art have been put together, the body and head aren"t meant to be together: head: looks like one of pheidias"s work, also found on the acropolis. Pausanias thought this was one of his best work. Lemnian: athenian colony making this dedication showing there are athenians in other parts of the. Scholars have wondered if this is how he depicted the athena parthenos. Sheets made by unrolling sections of elephant tusk unrolled like a scroll. Then heated or boiled in an acid (eg, vinegar) to make pliable = like rubber. Pressed into a mould to form the skin , when dried attached to plates on statue. First truly famous sculptor = but none of his originals survive people like to attribute parts of the.
