Greek Sculpture

Greek Sculpture
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Greek Sculpture is probably the most well known aspect of Greek art, for a contemporary it expresses the most beautiful ideal and plastic perfection. It is the first of the Ancient Arts that looked to free itself from the imitative constraints, of the faithful representation of nature. Only a small part of the production of Greek Sculpture is known to us. Many of the masterpieces described by Antique literature are henceforth lost or badly damaged, and a large part, we know are copies, more or less skillful and faithful to the Roman era. Many have been restored by Western Sculptors, from the Renaissance to nowadays, and often in a meaning very different from the original work: a discobolous is thus turned into a dying gladiator, this god received the attributes of another, the legs of this statue are transplanted to the torso of this other one. “The soul of Greek Sculpture contains in it all sculpture. Its essential simplicity, defies all definition. We can feel it, but we can not express it. ‘Open your eyes, study the statues, look, reflect and look again,’ is the perpetual perception of anyone who wants to learn or know about Greek Sculpture.”

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Edmund von Mach. Greek Sculpture

Introduction

Rapidity of Growth

The Triumph of the Few

Small Range of Simple Ideas

The Appeal of a Work of Art

Periods of Greek Sculpure

Fundamental Considerations

Greek Sculpture in its Relation to Nature: The Mental Image

The Appeal of Greek Sculpture

The Artist and his Public

The Principles of Greek Relief Sculpture

Differing Technique of High and Low Relief Sculpture

Greek Relief Sculpture in its Relation to Architecture; Reliefs on Rounded Surfaces

Physical Effort and Pleasure in Viewing Extended Compositions

The Colouring of Greek Sculpture

Art Conditions Before the 7th Century B. C. and Early Ignorance

Material, Technique

Destructive Forces

Early Ignorance of Greek Sculpture

Early Greek Sculpture

First Attempts in the Round

The First Attempts in Relief

Conservatism, Ready Skill Before Freedom of Conception

Transitional Period

Myron

Pythagoras; Telling Use of Details

Grace and Delicate Workmanship; Kalamis

Sculptured Temple Decorations, Aegina and Olympia

Realisation of the Noblest Ideas: the Divine Side of Human Nature

The Parthenon

The Metopes

The Frieze

The Pediments

The Greek Ideal

The Individual Soul and Body

Praxiteles

Skopas

The Niobe Goup

The Tomb of King Mausollos

Formulated Principles; Perfect Skill

Autumn Days

The Aphrodite of Melos

The Nike of Samothrace

The Belvedere Apollo and the Artemis of Versailles

The Laokoön Group

The School of Pargamon

Bibliography

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Dipylon Head, Dipylon, Athens, c. 600 B. C. Marble, h: 44 cm. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

The study of Greek sculpture was unknown two hundred and fifty years ago. Winckelmann[1] was the first to study it, and to publish a book on the subject in 1755. The excavations in Pompeii and Herculaneum, the removal of the Parthenon sculptures to London by Lord Elgin, and above all, the regeneration of Greece and the subsequent rich finds in her soil, added zest to the continually growing interest in this new study.

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To a great extent the modelled relief, with its depth of background, has overcome this difficulty, and offers possibilities in this direction not possessed by the older style. To date, however, none of its creations can be said to have been altogether successful. Great depth of reproduction requires the introduction of perspective; and while linear perspective is not incompatible with corporeal representation, aerial perspective is, because it diminishes the distinctness of contours of objects seen at a distance. Another formidable obstacle is the proper treatment of shadows.

It may be safely assumed that the ancients were aware of these difficulties, and therefore somewhat tenacious in their adherence to the practices of the older style, at least in their more pretentious works of art. In minor works, notably in terra cottas, they pushed the tentative beginnings in the other style to a considerable extent. Nothing, however, will do more to clarify the views on Greek relief sculpture than to treat the two styles separately; and since the second style occurs in ancient times only in works of secondary importance, it is best to confine oneself to the carved relief.

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