MPC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caryatid, Discobolus, Praxiteles

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Combined Media
• Course: MPC 103
• Professor: Iain Cameron

Document Summary

Plato c429-347 bc; 11511-12 the school of athens by raphael; fresco, stanza della segnatura, vatican, Renaissance: rebirth of classical values; ancient greece and rome. Had perfec view of humanity based on harmonius mathematical projection; formulas for beauty. Archaiac period c 700-480 bc (300 gerard butler ended the period: persian war) Kouros (kouroi): standing youth; generic subject copied over and over thorugh the ages. Kroisos from anavysos ca530bc: seeing a more naturalistic look, musculature more authentic, more rounded body; late archaic age. Stance is the giveaway for archaic as well as the smile. Ca 480 bc kritios boy, from the acropolis, athens, greece: sculpture found in the ruins of the acropolis after persian invasion; more naturalistic curve to the body; contrapposto; more organic, rounded approach; no archaic smile; makes idea of conscieousness. Phototaking: have people stand with feet in a cross. 470 bc: charioteer, from a group dedicated by polyzalos of gela in the sanctuary of apollo, delphi,