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Primary Source Material�Classical & Hellenistic Art

Professor Perry

Western Civilization I

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Figure 5-7 Kouros, from Attica, possibly Anavysos, Greece, ca. 600 BCE. Marble, 6’ 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Figure 5-10 Peplos Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 530 BCE. Marble, 4’ high. Acropolis Museum, Athens.

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Notice traces of encaustic paint on the Peplos Kore. Most Greek stone statues were painted.

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Notice also that the Peplos Kore is clothed.

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Figure 5-40 MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower). Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 450 BCE, 5’ 1” high. Museo Nazionale Romano—Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

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Figure 5-62 PRAXITELES, Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman marble copy of an original of ca. 350–340 BCE. 6’ 8” high. Musei Vaticani, Rome.

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Aphodite of Knidos, PRAXITELES

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  • Bold step to render a goddess in the nude
  • Sensuous and humanizing qualities – different from the cold, aloof gods and athletes of the High Classical

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Figure 5-84 ALEXANDROS OF ANTIOCH-ON-THE-MEANDER, Aphrodite (Venus de Milo), from Melos, Greece, ca. 150–125 BCE. Marble, 6’ 7” high. Louvre, Paris.

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Figure 5-87 Old market woman, ca. 150–100 BCE. Marble, 4’ 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Figure 5-86 Seated boxer, from Rome, Italy, ca. 100–50 BCE. Bronze, 4’ 2” high. Museo Nazionale Romano–Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.