ARTH 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Royal Ontario Museum, Lysippos, Codpiece
25 Jan 2017
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Pedley, greek art and archaeology, 5th ed. (prentice-hall, 2012). (4th edition is okay -) susan. downie@carleton. ca. Doesn"t usually survive - melted down often when found. Romans were the first known lovers of greek art. Original bronze by lysippos 330 bc. Marble statue needs support while a bronze sculpture wouldn"t. High gloss on the marble a very roman thing the favourite court approved sculptor of alexandre the great suspicious because of the material nature of both of the sculptures. > the angle of the head has changed. Whole support thing is a new design. Greek statues only exist in copies, we don"t actually know how close the copies were. Romans knew how to, but they didn"t always - in order to suit their own taste. Could possibly be an original since it is rough and not smoothed/glossed. Cleaning his body with olive oil after working out. A copy of what was once a cast bronze sculpture.
