Images
Body Language
Benjamin David
Humanities 110

 

Archaic Sculpture
Classical Sculpture
Hellenistic Sculpture
ca. 600- ca. 480 B.C.E.
ca. 480- ca. 320 B.C.E.
ca. 320- ca. 30 B.C.E.

Kleobis & Biton (Delphi); marble ca. 600-575 BCE, Pollit #2
Kritos Boy (Athens); marble, ca. 490-480 BCE, Pollit #4
Zeus from Cape Artemision (Athens); bronze, ca. 440 BCE, Pollit #22
Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Minneapolis, Naples); Roman copy; original bronze ca. 450-440 BCE, Pollit #49
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos (Munich); Roman copy; original ca. 340 BCE, Pollit #67 (Rome)
Lyssipos, Farnese Herkales (Naples); Roman copy; original ca. 320 BCE, Pollit #86
Praxiteles Follower, Hermes and Infant Dionysus (Olympia); Roman copy; original 300-250(?) BCE, Pollit #64
Myron, Diskobolos (Rome); Roman copy, original ca. 450 BCE, Pollit #27

The following images are reproduced in Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Cambridge) with their numbers; these images are from the Reed College Slide Collection.

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Kleobis and Biton,
ca. 590,
hgt. ca.2.17 meters,
found at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.
Delphi: Museum

Kleobis and Biton,
Profile
ca. 590,
hgt. ca.2.17 meters,
Delphi: Museum

Kleobis and Biton,
detail of head and torso
ca. 590,
Delphi: Museum

Kleobis and Biton,
detail of head
ca. 590,
Delphi: Museum


Kritios' Boy
490-80 B.C.
Marble
found: Acropolis, Athens
Athens: Acropolis Museum


Kritios' Boy
front and back views
490-80 B.C.
Marble
found: Acropolis, Athens
Athens: Acropolis Museum


Kritios' Boy
490-80 B.C.
Marble
found: Acropolis, Athens
Athens: Acropolis Museum


Zeus
ca. 460 B.C.
found in sea off Cape Artemission in Euboea
bronze
209 cm hiigh
Athens: National Museum


Zeus
detail of head
ca. 460 B.C.
found in sea off Cape Artemission in Euboea
bronze
209 cm hiigh
Athens: National Museum


POLYKLEITOS
Doryphoros
ca. 450-40 B.C.
from Pompeii
total front center
marble
212 cm. high
Naples, Museo Archaeologico

POLYKLEITOS
Doryphoros
ca. 450-40 B.C.
from Pompeii
front views
marble
212 cm. high
Naples, Museo Archaeologico

POLYKLEITOS
Doryphoros
ca. 450-40 B.C.
from Pompeii
back views
marble
212 cm. high
Naples, Museo Archaeologico


POLYKLEITOS
Doryphoros
Roman marble copy
120-10 B.C.
78" high
Minneapolis Institute of Arts


PRAXITELES
Cridian Aphrodite
350- 40 B.C.
full length center
marble
Munich, Glyptothek

PRAXITELES
Adaptation of Cridian Aphrodite
350- 40 B.C.
Roman copy
marble
Munich, Glyptothek


LYSIPPOS
Farnese Herkales
4th C B.C.
marble,
Roman copy (1st C B.C.)
Naples, Museo Nazionale


LYSIPPOS
Farnese Herkales
4th C B.C.
Chieti, Museo Nazionale Archeologico


PRAXITELES FOLLOWER
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
ca 300-250 B.C.
attributed by Pausanias
2.15 m high
restored left leg below knee
from Heraion at Olympia


MYRON
Diskobolos
5th C B.C.
(Roman copy)
marble
total front left
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano


MYRON
Diskobolos
5th C B.C.
(Roman copy)
marble
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano


MYRON
Diskobolos
5th C B.C.
(Roman copy)
marble
total front right
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano

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last updated 3 July 2001