Visual Arts History 2247E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arcadia Lake (Oklahoma), Cretan Bull
7 Apr 2015
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Feb. 14th temple of zeus at olympia (456 bce): introduction; metopes: monumental temple dedication to zeus in olympia. 6 & 6 show all herakles 12 labours chronological order. Fourth labour: capture cretan bull [father of minotaur] Just lassoed the bull pull head, interesting composition, maximize size of characters. 10th labour: sent to edge of western world. Pick apples from golden tree, sculpture shows atlas doing herakles" task. Atlas offers, herakles holds sky (atlas" job) & atlas comes back with golden apple o o o. Skin impervious to anything made of metal, use as body armour after arm wrestle. Contrast deities vs. heros, ethos athena = no emotion vs. herakles = worn out tired, youthful/boyish [despite being 30] Third labour: go into arcadia, shoot down birds w wings of metal. Herakles kill man eating birds, has bow and arrows metal detail after b/c metal birds. Herakles give athena offering with right hand.
