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1 Greek Sphinxes Circa 540 BCE Metropolitan, NY Compare to Assyrian Sphinx

2 Myron’s Heifer Myron of Eleutherae: 480-440 BC, an Athenian sculptor .
From a fountain in Athens, one of a lost group of statues portraying Theseus and the Minotaur. National Archeological Museum of Athens

3 Object of the Month: National Archeological Museum of Athens: Greek Couch

4 Development of Kouros See Kritios Boy, text p 112 and Kouros, p 95
Compare dates from text captions

5 Development of Kore - Peplos and himaton (p 97)

6 Venus Genetrix In BC the Athenian sculptor Callimachus created a bronze sculpture of Aphrodite (now lost), which, according to  Pliny’s Natural History, showed her dressed in a light but clinging chiton or  peplos, which was lowered on the left shoulder to reveal her left breast and hung down in a sheer face and decoratively carved so as not to hide the outlines of the woman's body. Venus was depicted holding the apple won in the Judgment of Paris in her left hand, whilst her right hand moved to cover her head. From the lost bronze original are derived all surviving copies. The composition was frontal, the body's form monumental, and in the surviving Roman replicas its proportions are close to the Polyclitean canon.

7 Roman Copy: Aphrodite of Frejus
Source: blog Roman Copy: Aphrodite of Frejus Louvre Museum

8 Myron’s Kiskobolos: Roman copy of a Greek bronze, circa 460 BC. P 113

9 Apollo of Belvedere The Apollo is thought to be a Roman copy of Hadrianic date (ca.  ) of a lost bronze original made between 350 and 325 BC by the Greek sculptor Leochares. The episode represented may be the slaying of Python the serpent guarding Delphi—making the sculpture a Pythian Apollo. Alternatively, it may be the slaying of the giant Tytios who threatened his mother Leto, or the episode of the Nyobids.

10 Boxer of Quirinal “Thermae boxer”: athlete resting after a boxing match. Bronze, Greek artwork of the Hellenistic era, 3rd-2nd centuries BC (the boulder is modern and replicates the ancient one). From the Thermae of Constantine National Museum of Rome


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