Greek Sculpture
From myth to beauty: the foundations of Western artBy Edmund von Mach
Length8h 13m
About this audiobook
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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Length8 hrs 13 mins
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Publish dateDec 28, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Rapidity of Growth
4The Triumph of the Few
5Small Range of Simple Ideas
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6The Appeal of a Work of Art
7Periods of Greek Sculpure
8Fundamental Considerations
9Greek Sculpture in its Relation to Nature: The Mental Image
10The Appeal of Greek Sculpture
11The Artist and his Public
12The Principles of Greek Relief Sculpture
13Differing Technique of High and Low Relief Sculpture
14Greek Relief Sculpture in its Relation to Architecture; Reliefs on Rounded Surfaces
15Physical Effort and Pleasure in Viewing Extended Compositions
16The Colouring of Greek Sculpture
17Art Conditions Before the 7th Century B.C. and Early Ignorance
18Material, Technique
19Destructive Forces
20Early Ignorance of Greek Sculpture
21Early Greek Sculpture
22First Attempts in the Round
23The First Attempts in Relief
24Conservatism, Ready Skill Before Freedom of Conception
25Transitional Period
26Myron
27Pythagoras; Telling Use of Details
28Grace and Delicate Workmanship; Kalamis
29Sculptured Temple Decorations, Aegina and Olympia
30Realisation of the Noblest Ideas: the Divine Side of Human Nature
31The Parthenon
32The Metopes
33The Frieze
34The Pediments
35The Greek Ideal
36The Individual Soul and Body
37Praxiteles
38Skopas
39The Niobe Goup
40The Tomb of King Mausollos
41Formulated Principles; Perfect Skill
42Autumn Days
43The Aphrodite of Melos
44The Nike of Samothrace
45The Belvedere Apollo and the Artemis of Versailles
46The Laokoön Group
47The School of Pargamon
481000 Buddhas of Genius
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