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Severe Style
The Severe style, or Early Classical style, was the dominant idiom of Greek sculpture in the period ca. 490 to 450 BCE. It marks the breakdown of the canonical forms of archaic art and the transition to the greatly expanded vocabulary and expression of the classical moment of the late 5th century. It was an international style found at many cities in the Hellenic world and in a variety of media including: bronze sculpture in the round, stelae, and architectural relief. The style perhaps realized its greatest fulfillment in the metopes of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. The term ''severe style'' was first coined by Gustav Kramer in his ' ("On the style and the origins of painted Greek pottery", 1837, Berlin) in reference to the first generation of red figure vase painters; since Vagn Poulsen's 1937 study ''Der strenge Stil'' ("The Severe Style"), the name has become exclusively associated with sculpture. Dating and relative chronology There is no firm chronology for the Severe s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exaltation Fleur Louvre Ma701
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Chiton (costume)
A chiton (; ) is a form of tunic that fastens at the shoulder, worn by men and women of ancient Greece and Rome. There are two forms of chiton: the Doric and the later Ionic. According to Herodotus, popular legend was that Athenian women began to wear the chiton as opposed to the peplos after several women stabbed a messenger to death with the bronze pins characteristic of the peplos. Etymology The word ''chiton'' is derived from a Central Semitic language *''kittān'' (e.g. Hebrew ), ultimately from a word for 'flax'. Different forms and wearing styles A shorter version of the chiton was called the chitoniskos. Doric chiton The Doric chiton is a single rectangle of woolen or linen fabric. It can be worn plain or with an overfold called an ''apoptygma'' (ἀπόπτυγμα), which is more common to women. It can be draped and fastened at the shoulder by pins (Greek: peronai; Latin: fibulae) or sewing, or by buttons. Ionic chiton The Ionic chiton could also be m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blond Kouros's Head Of The Acropolis
__NOTOC__ The so-called Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis is the head of a lost marble statue of a young man (Kouros or Ephebe sculpture type) of ca 480 BC, in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece.Inv. 689. The head and part of the pelvis were found in 1923 northeast of the museum site on the Acropolis of Athens. It belongs to the late archaic or early classical period (Severe style). The curly hair points more to the Archaic than the Classical period. It measures 25 cm in the vertical, in the horizontal under the ears 12.5 cm and in the depth 22.8 cm. (Schrader 1939:197). This sculpture could have been created by one of the teachers of Phidias, Hegias of Athens or Ageladas of Argos. The original blond painting of the curly hair is faded. Only remnants of the paint are visible today. Gallery Copy of blond Kouros' head, color rendition believed to have been used by the artist, painted by Dr. Alfons Neubauer of the Glyptothek, Munich File:Blonder Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athena Giustiniani
The ''Athena Giustiniani'' or ''Minerva Giustiniani'' is a Roman marble statue of Pallas Athena, based on a Greek bronze sculpture of the late 5th–early 4th century BCE. Formerly in the collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani, it is now in the Vatican Museums (inv. 2223). Description and date The statue, of Parian marble, is 2.25 m high. It depicts Athena standing, wearing a thin Chiton (garment), chiton covered by a heavier himation draped over her left shoulder. On her breast is an aegis with a gorgoneion. Her left arm reaches across the front of her body to hold the edge of the himation; the right arm is bent upward at the elbow to clasp a spear. On her head is a Corinthian helmet, and on the ground to her right is a coiled serpent, which may allude to the story of Erichthonius of Athens, Erichthonios, the authochthonous king of Athens. The forearms and parts of the fingers are modern restorations, as are the spear, the sphinx on the helmet, and the head and part of the coils of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Thomas
Renate is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Latin name Renatus. It is common in German, Dutch and Norwegian. Notable people with the given name include: *Renate Aschauer-Knaup (born 1948), German singer (Amon Düül II) *Renate Blauel, music engineer, married to Elton John *Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018), Dutch writer, journalist and feminist *Renate Gebhard (born 1977), Italian jurist and politician *Renate Götschl (born 1975), Austrian alpine skier *Renate Groenewold (born 1976), Dutch speed skater * Renate Hellwig (born 1940), German politician * Renate Holub (born 1946), German political philosopher and social theorist *Renate Kamener (1933–2009), Australian educator *Renate Klein (born 1945), Australian writer, publisher and feminist health activist *Renate Künast (born 1955), German Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, 2001–2005 *Renāte Lāce (1943–1967), Latvian track and field athlete *Renate Loll (born 1962), Dutch physicist *Renat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discobolus
The ''Discobolus'' by Myron (" discus thrower", , ''Diskobólos'') is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus. Though the original Greek bronze cast is lost, the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which is cheaper than bronze,Woodford, Susan. (1982) ''The Art of Greece and Rome''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 16. such as the ''Palombara Discobolus'', the first to be recovered, and smaller scaled versions in bronze. A norm in Ancient Greek athletics, the ''Discobolus'' is presented nude. His pose appears unnatural to a human and is considered as per modern standards a rather inefficient way to throw the discus. Myron's skill is evident in his ability to convey a sense of movement of the body at the moment of its maximum tension and splendor within a static medium, transforming a routine athletic activity in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myron
Myron of Eleutherae (480–440 BC) (; , ''Myrōn'' ) was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. Alongside three other Greek sculptors, Polykleitos Pheidias, and Praxiteles, Myron is considered as one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to ''Natural History'', a Latin encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder (AD 23 – 79), a scholar in Ancient Rome, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher. None of his original sculptures are known to survive, but there are many later copies of his works, such as his '' Discobolus'', mostly Roman. Reputation Myron worked almost exclusively in bronze and his fame rested principally upon his representations of athletes (including his iconic '' Diskobolos''), in which he made a revolution, according to commentators in Antiquity, by introducing greater boldness of pose and a more perfect rhythm, subordinating the parts to the whole. Pliny's remark that Myr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calamis (5th Century BC)
Calamis (fl. 5th century BC) was a sculpture, sculptor of ancient Greece. He was possibly from Boeotia, but nothing certain is known of his life although he is credited with having lived in Athens, and his sculptures are representative of Athenian sculpture. Although none of his works survives, he is known for his talent and skill in sculpting animals, especially horses, as opposed to the human body. He is known to have worked in marble, bronze, gold, and ivory, and was famed for statues of horses, which Pliny says were unrivaled.''The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.IV'', (London) Charles Knight, p.21 According to Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias (9.16.1), Calamis produced a statue of Zeus Ammon for Pindar, and mentions a Hermes Criophorus for Tanagra (9.22.1), which was later depicted on Roman coins of the city. His statue of Alexicacus, Apollo Alexikakos stood in front of the Temple of Apollo Patroos in Athens. He produced his most ambitious work, a 30-cubit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pythagoras (sculptor)
Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras of Rhegion (Ancient Greek: , fl. 5th century BC) was an Ancient Greek sculptor from Samos. Pliny the Elder describes two different sculptors who bore a remarkable personal likeness to each other. In the nineteenth century Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Philip Smith accepted the opinion of Karl Julius Sillig (1801–1855) that Pliny's date of Olympiad 87 (c. 428 BC) ought to be referred to a Pythagoras of Samos but not a Pythagoras of Rhegium; other writers considered it possible Pythagoras of Samos lived closer to the beginning of the 5th century BC. Modern writers consider it certain these two were the same artist, and that this Pythagoras was one of the Samian exiles who moved to Zankle at the beginning of the 5th century BC and came under the power of the tyrant Anaxilas in Rhegium. While a Samian by birth, he was a pupil of Clearchus of Rhegium. Pythagoras was at first a painter, but eventually turned to sculpture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo
Apollo is one of the Twelve Olympians, Olympian deities in Ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek and Ancient Roman religion, Roman religion and Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the ''kouros'' (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth). Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as ''Apulu''. As the patron deity of Delphi (''Apollo Pythios''), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Pythia, Delphic Oracle and also the deity of ritual purification. His oracles were often consulted for guidance in various matters. He was in general seen as the god who affords help and wards off e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (14 November 1929 – 19 October 2024) was an Italian-American archaeologist and specialist in ancient Greek sculpture. Life and career The daughter of Giuseppe Sismondo, a career army officer, and Maria (Lombardo) Sismondo, Ridgway was born in Chieti on 14 November 1929; as a young child she lived in Sicily and then in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where her father had been stationed during World War II. When her father was captured by the British in World War II and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Kenya, she secured a job as a telephone operator at police headquarters in Asmara (Eritrea) where she learned to speak English. After World War II, she studied classics at the University of Messina, where she obtained her degree in classics in 1953. An archaeology scholarship and Fulbright Travel Grant allowed her to continue her studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she came under the tutelage of Rhys Carpenter. At the end of her MA, she wrote h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busto Di Temistocle, Da Originale Greco Del V Secolo Ac, Dal Decumano Presso Il Casamento Del Temistocle
Busto is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ernesto Hernández Busto (born 1968), Cuban writer living in Barcelona *Javier Busto (born 1949), Spanish choral music composer and conductor *José Antonio del Busto Duthurburu (1932–2006), Peruvian historian *José María Busto (1923–2012), Spanish footballer *Manu Busto (born 1980), Spanish footballer *Manuel Busto (born 1932), French former professional racing cyclist *Michael Busto (born 1986), Canadian ice hockey defenceman *Milton Busto (born 1982), Nicaraguan professional midfielder *Busto, 1962 fado album by Amália Rodrigues See also *El Busto, town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain *Lax'n'Busto, pop-rock group formed in 1986 in El Vendrell, Catalonia * Bustelo (other) *Bustillo (other) *Buston (other) Buston may refer to: *Buston, Mastchoh District, a town in northern Tajikistan * Buston, Shahriston District, a village i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
