ART 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Middle Kingdoms Of India, Praxiteles, Knidos
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Philip of macedon conquered athens: sees a devastate peninsula and is able to conquer it, coming from another region of greece, assassinated 20 years later and son comes to rule. Interested in philip"s son alexander the great. Thinking about what happened to greek art following devastation of the persian wars. We are going to see a relaxation of the heroic ideals. The reverence towards divinity that had characterized the classical period. For the rst time we will see statues making fun of the great olympian deities and paralleling what was happening in literature and religion. A contamination of greek religion with beliefs coming from other areas including. Going to see a rejection of the ideals of perfection in art, even in proportions. An exaggeration of the stylistic features (contrapossto) One of the great sculptures of this age was praxiteles: non of his original work survives.
