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Early Classical Style - Coggle Diagram
Early Classical Style
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Tyrannicides
the first version was commissioned by Antenor, but stolen by the Persians in 480BC
To replace the stolen original version, the Athenians commissioned Kritios and Nesiotes
the new version was set up in Athenian Agora in 477/76 BC, securely dated by Marmor Parium
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but this was not a revolutionary pose, it was also seen in the Ugento Zeus of 510BC
they also maintain elements of the archaic style - Aristogeiton's lips have faint archaic smile and his himation is rendered with folds in an Archaic way
however, it is probably to be expected that hangovers from the archaic style would be present in monuments for some time
we thusly cannot call it the 'birth' of the new style, as Ridgeway and Stewart tried to
this was however a new type of monument, an honorific one. these are representations of actual individuals that had done good for the polis
outside mainland Greece
Grave Stele from Nisyros, an island of Greece
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in classical style, with contrapposto stance
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but retains elements of the archaic style, such as the smile
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Why?
Persian Wars
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seems unlikely that a historical event, no matter how huge, could cause SUCH a shift
indeed, when most greek states were at war against the Persians, there was not an upsurge of self-conscious or bathetic art to reflect this
however might be a factor: Greece wanted to recalibrate its identity and distance itself with Eastern styles - Kouroi quite similar to Egyptian predecessors
Bronze
towards the end of the 6th Century, sculptors started producing large-scale bronzes rather than traditional marble statues
bronze necessitates a more complex process of production, but has higher tensile strength that allows for open postures to be more robustly supported
for example, the tyrannicides group were originally produced in bronze, allowing for the 'attack-pose', and all roman copies in marble have to add struts to support the limbs
however, we again have a 'chicken-and-egg' situation wherein we cannot conclude which factor influenced which
did bronze incite the early classical style, or did the new postures of the early classical style necessitate bronze?
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Post-aliquanto laws
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cannot accurately date these because Cicero does not tell us, but it is sometime after 490BC
this caused a change in statue habits towards state monuments, and also caused the demise of the kouroi schema
whereas kouroi just represented a generic idea of 'man', as a 'sema' the ensuing athlete statues were intended to capture someone's specific likeness
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