ARHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Middle Kingdoms Of India, Scopas, Ionic Order
28 Feb 2016
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Surface is rough (typical of skopas work: praxiteles"s hermes & the infant dionysus (c. 350 bc) Late classical period (431 bc-323 bc: new emphasis on suffering, agony, death, introduced new theatricality, new emphasis on sensuous, sensual, & luxurious, impact on architecture. Volute capitals on the columns, suggesting ionic order. Temple of apollo @ bassae (c. 420-410 bc) Dedicated to apollo as a healer of the body (biological reality) Skopas specialized in depictions of suffering, defeat & the irrational (differentiated. Late classical from high classical"s heroicness & robustness) Implies that viewer is voyeur: praxiteles"s aphrodite of knidos (c. 350 bc) Ideal figure type is now elongated and sensuous w/ exaggerations: lysippes (court sculptor of alexander the great) Did several portraits of alexander, but originals are all lost & roman copies are mostly incomplete: lysippes"s apoxyomenos (c. 350-330) Elongated w/ delicate hands & feet & exaggerated contrapposto.
