Ashley Vickrey November 17‚ 2011 Art Survey T&Th. Mrs. Zeilman Spear Bearer Doryphoros by Polykleitos sculptors of the Early and High Classical Greek periods in art strived for perfection in creating the human form. They combined such features such as regular facial features‚ smooth skin‚ and particular body portions into an ideal of perfect beauty. Polykleitos of Argos was a well known sculptor. His aim in sculpting was to produce the perfect human figure using a mathematical equation
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This paper explores Doryphoros a Greek sculpture by Polykleitos in 450 BC‚ which made an invaluable contribution to the pursuit of perfection in the sculpted human form. The Greek Classical Period (480-323 B.C) produced human sculptures known for their freedom of movement‚ expression and celebration of man’s independent being. It was in the Early and High Classical periods that sculptors strove to achieve perfection of the human form. One major reason touted for this revival of a desire to achieve
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Greek Sculpture The Doryphoros‚ dates from 450-400 BC‚ it is a Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze sculpture and carved by the sculptor Polykleitos. The sculpture shows athleticism at its finest‚ it had a balanced figure with idealized proportions sculpted in the round. Doryphoros is one of the most classic sculptures from the high classical period. The Doryphoros is a very intellectual work. Our appreciation of the work‚ is also influenced
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Polykleitos‚ a Greek sculptor from the mid-fifth century BCE‚ revolutionized the way sculptures were created thereafter by revealing a new way to look at the human figure. After receiving his education in Argos‚ a school in Greece (Kleiner‚ Mamiya 133)‚ Polykleitos entered a sculpting contest to create an Amazon for the temple of Artemis at Ephesos. Phidias‚ who was famed for his contribution to Greek sculpture‚ had also entered the contest and lost to his younger rival‚ Polykleitos. After this competition
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follows the classical period from 450 BCE to 400 BCE that lasted half century. It represents the outstanding cultural achievements and the intellectual growth that happened upon Athens at the time. Architecture in ancient Greece commenced as a basic building with plain designs but as times passed from the archaic period to the geometric‚ the classic and then the Hellenistic period‚ it evolved
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The Doryphoros is one of the most iconic and well known sculptures from the classical period in Greek. It exhbits the characteristics of Classical Greek art all too well‚ as it shows a baby-faced man with a grown man body. Greece at the time tried to idealistically show what a “true man” would look like‚ as shown by the Doryphoros. The man in the sculpture is supposed to symbolize a Greek soldier‚ as Doryphoros means‚ spearbearer. The Greek would idealize all of their soldiers and held them to high
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given larger than real-life scale. The Terracotta Statue of the Diadoumenos is a copy of a Greek bronze statue of 430 B.C. by Polykleitos. The pose of the famous statue of the Diadoumenos by Polykleitos is recognizable in this statuette‚ but the slender‚ graceful forms conform to Late Hellenistic period. Beginning with the early Classical period‚ Polykleitos was a well-known sculptor who sought perfection through "an all-encompassing mathematical
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By the Late Classical Period and late 5th century‚ sculptors worked within the rules and standards of ideal proportion and the human figure set by Phedias and Polykleitos. The Late Classical sculptor‚ Praxiteles‚ carved from marble Hermes and the Infant Dionysos‚ although what survives is possibly a copy from the romans or Hellenistic period. Hermes has a small head then the figures before‚ his body is also sensual and in a graceful loose-limb stance. The significance about this sculpture is the
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The Bard at 450 The Bard is alive and with us at 450. The dawn of 2014 is special for that very reason‚ for the world shall sway to the strains of the Bard‚ and in celebrations all over where man exists and the word lives on‚ we shall relive his works a thousand times over. A mortal immortalized by his art of literature‚ ‘not of an age‚ but for all times.’ We shall begin the year of celebration of the Bard in this space by revisiting the Shakespearian Sonnets. Jeet Thayil‚ the writer of Narcopolis
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By comparing the two sculptures of Khafre‚ image 3-11 ca. 2520-2494 BCE (1)‚ with the statue of Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)‚ image 5-40 ca. 450-440 BCE (2) you get a true sense of the evolution of art‚ from Pharaonic Egypt to Classical Athenian Greece two millennia later. This was not just a revolution in art but also philosophy‚ which transported itself into not only the types sculptures created but also the style used by their creators. For example‚ the statue of Khafre sits lifeless and majestic
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