ART 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Artemisium, Acropolis Of Athens, Kritios
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Kritios boy, from the athenian acropolis, classical period, marble h: 2" 10 . Other foot facing forward, no smile, knee is bent. Shifted his hip, everything is then shifted. Zeus (or poseidon) found: cape artemision, greece classical period. Don"t have what goes in his hand so we don"t know who he is. Now they"re moving the whole body around. Very hard to make bronze statues because many different molds. Bronze has more strength for its weight, marble has more weight for its strength. Much harder to break, won"t lose arms. When christianity became very popular they melted the statues down and remade them for their churches. Bronze greek statues are very uncommon because of that. Polykleitos (sculptor) doryphoros (spear bearer) roman marble copy from pompeii, 450 - 440 bc classical period h: 6" 11 . Polykleitos is the sculptor, wrote canon of proportions. Makes a science out of something that hasn"t yet. This was the illustration of his book.
