Greek Art - 8 Hellenistic Period: Transition

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Eighth video of the Greek Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message. Land of the Art blog: http://landoftheart.blogspot.com.es/ Land of the Art in facebook: https://www.facebook.com/landoftheart The birth of Greek culture and art were born between the IX and VIII centuries before Christ on the peninsula of Attica, the Peloponnese peninsula, the peninsula on the west coast of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands. The importance of their art and culture is enormous. Before I have to talk about the Peloponnesian Wars. Were wars between 431-404 BC where greeks and spartans fought. Finally, the spartans won and had the hegemony. During the Hellenistic Period, that goes from 323 BC (death of Alexander the Great) till 30 BC (suicide of Cleopatra VII and Marcus Antonius), the importance of Greece proper within the Greek-speaking world declined sharply. The great centers of Hellenistic culture were Alexandria and Antioch, capitals of Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Syria respectively. Cities such as Pergamon, Ephesus, Rhodes and Seleucia were also important, and increasing urbanization of the Eastern Mediterranean was characteristic of the time. Alexander the Great did great discoveries and Greece was more openminded. Skopas. Was the inventor of the pathetic style, called so by the pathos (feeling, expression). Pain expression. Frontons of the Temple of Athena at Tegea: are very fragmented. Example of Skopas sculpture: look at the bodies... Skopas sculpted so. Funerary stele: attributed to Skopas. Maenad: a meanad is a mythological feminin being related with Dioniso. This sculpture has pathos, with that extreme movement. Pothos: or Apollo Kitharoidos, player of the zither. Meleager's head: the head of Meleager. Meleager: the myth is the hunt dangerous Calydonian Boar, sent by Artemis as punishment for forgetting Oeneus having dedicated sacrifices. Oeneus organized a hunt to kill him and Meleager was the one who did it. Mausoleum of Halicarnassus: the sculptures of this lost building (one of the Wonders, if you remember), were made, among others, by Skopas. The themes were the Amazonomachy and a race of chariots. Mausolo (Briaxis): attributed to the sculptor Briaxis, is a very realistic sculpture. Eirene and Ploutos (Kephistodos): he probably was the father of Praxiteles. Is represented a woman with a baby. Praxiteles. Most known to create the praxitelian curve. Hermes and the Infant Dionysus: appear Hermes that go with Dionysus to the place where the nimphs are going to care about the baby. Apollo Sauroctonos: appear Apollo going to kill a lizard. Resting Satyr: the curve is even greater. Aphrodite of Cnidus: she is just leaving the bathroom, being very shy to be Aphrodite. Aphrodite of Arles: probably is not of him, but by the way that she put the arms, could be. Lisipo. He was the favourite sculptor of Alexander the Great. The Polykleitos canon is bigger. Apoxyomenos: represents a young athlete. He is removing the sand stuck in his body due to sweat with a strigil. If in the classical period, the sculpture had contrapposto, now has movement of arms. Eros: with lot of movement, he is with his bow. Agias: similar to Apoxyomenos, but with more volume in the muscles, and the mouth opened, with deep eyes. Farnese Hercules: he is full of muscle, and is a very heavy sculpture. Here there is a great study of the human muscles. Hermes: a bronze sculpture of Hermes resting. Socrates, Plato and Homer: few portraits, but not sure if are by him. Probably are from full statues. Alexander the Great: Lisipo was his sculptor, and represents a man with a fiery power but at same time, very intelligent and kind. Sarcophagus of Alexander: with scenes of hunt and battles. Music by Age of Mythology -Chocolate Outline Photos taken in Google images. No copyright infringement intended.