AHIS BC 1001x Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aphrodite Of Cnidus, Pergamon Altar, Darius Iii
30 Aug 2016
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Shift in the canon of proportions, body appears more elongated, less stocky, a little less dense in muscularity, although equally idealized in terms of physicality. Drapery is a little less idealized, much more individuated. Tendency that will increase towards the strangeness of some of the characters. Makes two statues even though he is only asked to make one. Makes one clothed, barely with see through cloth, and one completely nude. City takes the clothed one as their commission. Erects a round outdoor structure surrounded by garden, overlooking the sea, so that the statue can be seen from all angles. Venus pudica (modest venus) (this word later becomes pudicitia) is her pose as she covers herself. Lysippos, apoxyomenos (man scraping himself), c. 350-325 bce. Naked, one would cover their self in oil, so as not to get dirt (harena), and they would scrape it off with a strigil.
