32. DORYPHOROS
SPEAR BEARER
450 BCE
THE CANON BY POLYKLEITOS:
HEAD SHOULD BE 1/7 OF BODY
INFLUENCED BY PYTHAGORAS
HARMONY COMES FROM PROPORTION AND RATIOS, EVEN
IN MUSIC
BLOCK LIKE, SOLID
RESTRAINED MOVEMENT
THIS IS A ROMAN COPY FOUND IN POMPEII
ORIGINAL SAID TO BE MADE BY POLYKLEITOS
CONTRAPPOSTO
39. APHRODITE
VENUS DE MILO
130 BCE
Originally thought
to be by Praxiteles,
now by Alexander of
Antioch.
Found on the island
of Milos
Firs time woman is
object of sexual
desire, teasing the
spectator
41. HELLENISTIC 323-31 BCE
period of DECADENCE compared to classical Greece
Begins with Alexander the Great’s invasion of
Achaemenid Empire (Persian) and then a new wave of
Greek colonization (even into Asia and Africa)
Ends with death of Alexander, and Cleopatra and Marc
Anthony in 31 BCE Battle of Actium:
Octavian wins…becomes Augustus. And we are fully
into ROMAN EMPIRE
42. THIS SETS UP THE ENTIRE FUTURE OF
WESTERN ART,
philosophically and stylistically
Reason, rationality, order, calm, stability
VS
Emotion, drama, tragedy, freedom