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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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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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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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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450 - 440 BCE he made Spear Bearer or The Canon (Doryphoros)‚ it’s a sculpture of somebody perhaps Achilles. The sculpture depicts the human body of a male in the high classicism period of the Ancient Greece and the expounded of physical male beauty along with the athletic nude art that is contemplate by
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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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the body moves into opposites. The natural split of the body makes for easy comparison and contrast; left and right‚ bent and straight‚ moving and still‚ active and passive‚ contracted and relaxed‚ and so on (Lapatin 5). For example‚ Polykleitos’ Doryphoros is cris-crossed from stiff leg to bent arm‚ bent leg to straight arm‚ and also from side to side with the head pointing right and hips turned to the left. What seems to be a relaxed standing pose is actually a really complexed‚ organized order to
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How important was Polykleitos to the Development of the Kouros? In fifth century Greek free-standing sculpture Polykleitos and his works the Diadoumenos (430BCE) and the Doryphoros (440BCE) (which were originally bronze) are important in demonstrating the development of the Kouros as they highlight a great level of development in terms of the naturalism of a‚ sculpture‚ through the use of contrapposto and application of the ‘Cannon of Proportion’ which is attributed to Polykleitos. Whereas Polykleitos’
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values‚ and abilities of humans. These three values are apparent in the Doryphoros‚ and the Parthenon temple. The Doryphoros‚ a sculpture by Polyclitus and also called the Spear bearer‚ is a great example of the combination of these three ideas. This sculpture is well known as the Canon‚ being perfect in proportion of body parts. It also embodies these three values of rationalism‚ idealism‚ and humanism. The reason the Doryphoros is considered to be an example of perfect proportion is because Polyclitus
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Gender in the Ancient World Warrior from Riace Ancient Greek society‚ their beliefs‚ ideologies‚ experiences and societal norms can only be realized by studying the artifacts that have managed to survive through out the centuries of abuses from war‚ conquest and Mother Nature. A great majority of the surviving artifacts found have been works of art‚ many of which are sculptures. These sculptures reveal clues to how the day-to-day lives in Ancient Greece were determined by status in society
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