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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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Table of contents
1Edmund von Mach
2Author: Edmund von Mach
3Greek Sculpture in its Relation to Nature : The Mental Image
4The Principles of Greek Relief Sculpture
5Differing Technique of High and Low Relief Sculpture
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6Greek Relief Sculpture in its Relation to Architecture; Reliefs on Rounded Surfaces
7Physical Effort and Pleasure in Viewing Extended Compositions
8The middle of the seventh century before Christ, now
9Lion's Gate, Mycenae, 14th century B.C. In situ.
10Lions of Delos, 7th century B.C. Marble. In situ.
11Material, Technique
12Destructive Forces
13them
14Early Ignorance of Greek Sculpture
15First Attempts in the Round
16The First Attempts in Relief
17Conservatism, Ready Skill Before Freedom of Conception
18Myron
19Grace and Delicate Workmanship; Kalamis
20Sculptured Temple Decorations, Aegina and Olympia
21Realisation of the Noblest Ideas: the Divine Side of Human Nature
22The Metopes
23M
24In mass
25The Individual Soul and Body
26Praxiteles
27The Niobe Goup
28The Tomb of King Mausollos
29Formulated Principles; Perfect Skill
30The Nike of Samothrace
31The Belvedere Apollo and the Artemis of Versailles
32The Laokoön Group
33The School of Pargamon
34Ground Plan of the Great Altar of Zeus, Pergamon.
35Eden Musée : Wax Museum in Manhattan, owned originally by Leonard Sutton.
36248 Notes
37These translations are quoted from Stuart Jones, Select Passages from Ancient Writers.
38Notes
39250 Notes
40Parthenon, Riders
41Daughter Persephone
42Young Girl running
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