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- Grave Stele of a Young Hunter
- Era: Late Classical, 340-330 BCE
- Location: Athens, Greece
- Techniques:
- made of marble
- 5'6" tall
- originally set in architectural frame
- higher relief - parts fully in the round
- pronounced change in mood - like innovations of Skopas
- hunter looks out at viewer - inviting sympathy & creating emotional bridge between spectator & artwork
- Content:
- depicts overt mourning deceased=young hunter - like Skopas’ heroes
- small boy at feet (servant, brother) sobs openly
- hunter’s dog - drooping head in sorrow
- old man (father) leans on walking stick - ponders irony of fate to take powerful young son, while he still lives
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- Weary Herakles
- Artist: Lysippos
- Era: Late Classical, 320 BCE
- Techniques:
- copy of bronze original
- 10'5" tall
- exhibited in Baths of Caracalla in Rome - inspire athletes
- signed by copier - Glykon of Athens
- exaggerated muscular development is ironic because strongman so weary that must lean on club for support - without it, he would topple over
- rejected stability and balance as worthy goals for statuary
- holds golden apples of Hesperides in right hand behind back
- instead of joy for completing 1 of 12 labors, seems dejected
- thinks only of pain & weariness, not immortality that awaits him - humanizing gods
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- Nike of Samathrace
- Era: Hellenistic, 190 BCE
- Location: Sanctuary of the Great Gods
- Techniques:
- extreme amount of wind
- sheer clothing - shows contours of legs but also billows in the wind
- arm was raising a crown
- displayed on top of a two-tiered fountain that was constantly flowing to represent waves and create a reflection of the statue in the water
- art and nature
- prototype for automobile ornaments and figure heads on the front of ships
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- Dying Gaul
- Era: Hellenistic, 230-220 BCE
- Location: Pergamon
- Techniques:
- 3'1/2"
- high surface patina
- torque denotes him as a Gaul (French)
- defined muscles
- taut chest
- buldging viens emphasized in his legs
- glorious death
- dramatic hair
- wound carved into statue
- mustache - mature individual
- honor and glory
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- Altar of Zeus and Athena
- Era: Hellenistic, 175 BCE
- Location: Pergamon
- Techniques:
- framed by Ionic collonade
- stoa (covered collonade or portico) with projecting wings
- frieze runs 400ft
- gigantomachy - victory over barbarians
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- Athena Taking Young Alcyneos by the Hair
- Era: Hellenistic, 175 BCE
- Location: Altar of Zeus and Athena, Pergamon
- Techniques:
- 7'6" tall
- frozen movement
- deeply undercut folds
- expression and emotion on the figures
- strong sense of controlled pain
- undercut eyes of Alcyoneos
- exagerated pose
- wings are low-medium relief
- recession into space with overlap and different levels of relief
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- Laocoon
- Artists: Agesander(main), Athnodoros, and Polydoros
- Era: Hellenistic, early 1st century BCE
- Location: Rome, Italy
- Techniques:
- made of marble
- 7'10.5" tall
- nightmare scene
- ferocious cries
- high muscle, emotion and energy
- Trojan priest and his sons warn the Trojans of the trick - Athena send sea serpents after them
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- Aphrodite of Melos
- Artist: Alexandros of Antioch on the Meander
- Era: Hellenistic, 150-125 BCE
- Techniques:
- made of marble
- 6'7" tall
- nude female in an erotic pose
- left hand held and apple possibly
- right hand holds drapery teasingly possibly
- overtly sexual
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