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Archaic – Early Classical Stele carvings.
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A Stele?• Freestanding relief sculptures.• Grave markers or• Votive offerings.• Very popular in Attica.• Rectangular sculptural field- narrow
and tall.• Grave markers often topped with
decorative elements (sphinx, gable, etc)
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Youth with Young girl.
Attica.550BC
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Discus thrower. c550 BC
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Hero and Consort
approached by two
worshippers.
Laconia550 – 540
BC
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Aritsion• Marble.• Attica.• 510 BC.• Memorial to a
warrior.• Signed by
Aristokles
• Beard tip attached separately.
• Depth.
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Old Man offering a locust to a dog.
Limestone.Boeotia490 BC
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Mourning Athena.
• Found on Acropolis.
• c470.• H 0.48.• Pentellic marble.• Background
painted blue.• Reading list of
dead?
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Demeter gives corn
to Triptolemo
s.Eleusis.440-430
BC
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The technical stuff.• Usually pentelic marble.• Deep relief. Figures almost in the
round.• Drapery thicker and more
enveloping – less linear.• Figures heavy and square.• Craftmanship varies in quality
between sculptors.• Set within an architectural frame.
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Emotion in stone
• Relationships expressed through touching, yearning, reaching hands.
• Tender expressions.• Figures portrayed as physically
perfect.• Often engaged in everyday activities-
poignant. Won’t be doing that again.• Women usually seated.
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Ilissos stele. c350-325BC
• Found in river Ilissos, Athens.• Grave marker of young man.• Young man perfect – prime of life.• Weeping slave boy, sad dog.• Sad, mournful old man.• Dreamlike expression of deceased.• No physical contact between characters.• Poignant, sorrowful, heartbreaking,
ghostly.
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