FA 30a Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Strigil, Pelvis, Apoxyomenos
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His extended arm penetrates the realm of the viewer. You would use olive oil and very clean sand or grain, and rub it all over your body and then scrape it off with a strigil. The equivalent of a statue of an athlete taking a shower. An excuse for making a beautiful male body. Apollo belvedere (belvedere is part of the papal palace in vatican/rome) Figure walking along and looking at something in the distance. What is he doing? lots of possible mythical stories. Hermes (mercury) and infant dionysos (bacchus) by praxiteles 330 bce. Great sculptures of the late classical age. More slender (in comparison to the cannon of the spear bearer) The infant bacchus is on his arm, and he is reaching for something. Aphrodite (venus) of cnidus (roman copy)by praxiteles. Was placed in the center of a temple of aphrodite. Was the first documented example of a monumental naked nude figure in ancient.
