ART 258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Archaic Smile, Greco-Persian Wars, Lost-Wax Casting
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Were at the war with each other. Persians are going to start conquering the city states. Persians have a huge army, athenians outnumbered 2-1, athenians defeated the persians eventhough everyone thought they were going to lose. 480 (5-35) comes from athens after the athenians came back small- 34 inches. Next to the temple of athena siimlar to the koros figures kritios was the name of an artist that didn"t sculpt this. His left leg straight, right leg doesn"t look like hes stepping rather it looks like hes balancing himself, shift in weight. 460-450 (5-39) change in the favorite material they use, shift from marble to bronze. Bronze statues tended to be melted down at some point zeus or poseidon, rise of christinaity and islam they are going to be melted down because they do not agree with these gods. He is a god so it doesn"t require effort effortless, poise.
