ARTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kritios, Riace, Anavyssos
14 Apr 2016
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Second bank of the us: chestnut st, philadelphia, 19th century, looks like the parthenon. Ancient greece: city states, not united poliically, united by language. New york kouros: kouros = youth (youthful male nude) Uninished kouros chisel away at the stone to make the igure: mallet and punch. Greek sculptors (around 6-7th century) were aware of egypian precedence: figures took ater the image of egypian igures" style, pose standing with one foot forward, symmetrical body, difference: Arms are sill connected (web between arm and body) Bases for statues about 510 bc had athletes. Kleobis and biton : pair of kouros igures, inscripion on base. Polymedes the argive made me : around 580 bce, found together at delphi, site scared to apollo. Delphi greek city states worshipped apollo: voive sculptures dedicated to the god apollo. Sign of devoion and piety: assumpion: the two are brothers, one of them only has one arm, about 7 feet tall.
