Greek Sculpture (BBC: How Art Made The World)

[Ben1607]

hey, does anybody have any idea how I can watch this documentary online for free?

[ch3rryp3psi]

omg brain blast

[ukgreaterlondon]

PAGANS ARE SUPERIOR !

greek people i love you !

[UNIsprint]

4:37



[gorloro]

Crete (Ancient Greeks) = Sumerian = Brahmas,

are Whit INDIANs (Ancient Greek race).

Big eye, Black hair, Indian feature.

Ancient Greeks X Greeks. [you can figure that out.]

[gorloro]

Please, people's face feature won't change if they copy others way to sculpt!

Western "Scientist" still need more minds to figure truth out, not adding your own fiction stories into our textbook. For example: Evolution; the greatest lie, which still deceiving people worldwide.

[clsteele]

I'm doing an essay titled “Greek sculptors were too interested in aesthetics to portray true realism” Discuss. this video proved an invaluable help :)

[jimmyt3411]

He made the same mistake Plato did thousands of years ago...in fact Plato contrasted with Aristotle when he wanted to get rid of art because it didn't resemble the forms of life including the form of a human. The forms are right here Plato...that art piece does resemble a human being and you know it!

[julio24892]

Very good song and program is very good fills you art very father was very good for the tribes who painted aboriginal very good artists

[julio24892]

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[julio24892]

The music inspires you transports you to another level world for mi inspires me to draw and be the best and a good painter very excellent song, such as art made the world

[amnaki]

The clue: men love the war,but only two of them spread culture and civilization to the rest of the world,the GREEK and the ROMAN! All the others were/are just barbarians.

[ImaginedWriter]

@amnaki Tell that to the Indians who invented your mathematics or the Chinese who revolutionised war, agriculture, metallurgy to name a few things.

[Trinacria1973]

the riace bronces make me feel unmanly and ugly!!! :-(

[Phadriaful]

...the riace warrioirs were made before Polykleites's Doryphorous though.

They aren't a progression from his work at all! And this guy's from Cambridge?!

[CatherinePoloynis]

I've been looking for this video for years...I forgot the name of it, just remembered the many civilizations they covered...Jericho & Gobekle Tepe in particular. So glad to find it again!

[nervouswalks]

Wow, they are really into the Riace warriors.

[vangoghmatisse1]

GRAND SCALE!!!!!!

[pvsg1990]

THIS IS WHAT BROUGHT BODYBUILDING.

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

WRONG! These bodies are not unrealistic, but examples of genetic superiority. These bodies are born all the time, and some are built with hard work. It can only be a limp wristed unathletic , never worked a day in his life, personality that would think otherwise. Again, these bodies are real and can be realized through either genetic disposition or body building. Get a clue.

[ThePsychoSarah]

@SCORNDOGGMELACH what spivey probably means is that the figures were unrealistic in mathematical terms; the Riace Bronzes were created in the Hellenistic Period, which meant Greek sculptors mathematically calculated human proportions in order to make the body look more aesthetically appealing. like he said, the Riace Bronzes have no coccyx bone, and their legs have been made artificially longer to match the height of the upper body dude.

[M0enna]

They were brilliant artists-scientists. I've visited the Acropolis Museum 3 times so far. It brakes your heart when you see the missing pieces of the Parthenon replaced by modern cast though..

[fmafan43]

i'm watching this for class, but it's pretty cool.

[mrtundra45]

GREEKS were dope baddass geniuses......

[EXTRASTEXY]

Are 5 people blind or just stupid?

[LeonAmarantos]

Polycleitos made the "Doryforos" or "Kanon". Maybe the most perfect analogy of human body not only of the Greek but of the global sculpture

[LeonAmarantos]

About "Riace statues" i think that the Greek sculptor was Feidias and not Polycleitos. Nevertheless the documentary is good enough.

[TheJpslt]

Take a look at Dr Tedeschi Hippocrates sculpture on you tube!

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

man is a political animal

[elisei00]

The homeland of zoophilia is Greece. Unlike the wise Makedonians they believed that fucking an animal will give them additional forces, so they did it before battle.

[dionisosb]

@elisei00 speaks of the ancient Greeks and ancient Macedonians as they were two different peoples, this tale must end. Macedonians were Greeks, as the Thessalian were Greeks, like the Spartans were Greeks.

everyone had the same language, same customs and the same Customs

[Trinacria1973]

@dionisosb yes they were all greeks, but nevertheless they fightet each other in brutal wars, just beacuse they shared same langage and customs didn make them live in peace together!!!

[dionisosb]

@Trinacria1973 yes ... unfortunately had this bad the Greeks did not want anybody over the head, and let's race was another Greek .

The few occasions when united ,won the greatest enemies like the Persian empire

[dimitrisira81]

@elisei00 go back to your cave stupid monkey...

[NutsandGuts]

@JessikahAznBabyy Any person who actually cares about things like that should be laughed at =)

[JessikahAznBabyy]

@NutsandGuts alright, little pee pee man :)

[rahxun]

this shows how western people see the world. they believe their eyes. for them, 'seeing is believing'. the eastern people, see 'seeing' as maya (illusion). that's why eastern figures are not photorealistic.

[iancandolesas026ex]

kabadtrip!

[DGordonN]

Wow, i just watched this with my art history proffessor and this entire video is farbricated theories that neither I or him have ever heard... this was all made up by bbc, like how the art was demanded from the artists by the culture of greece.... it wasnt the people demanding it, it was the artisans just doing..

This is just another exmple of how BBC lies to the world.

[DGordonN]

Wow, i just watched this with my art history proffessor and this entire video is farbricated theories that neither I or him have ever heard... this was all made up by bbc, like how the art was demanded from the artists by the culture of greece.... it wasnt the people demanding it, it was the artisans just doing..

This is just another exmple of how BBC lies to the world.

[caliche992]

Thnk yuu

[hornebu]

"Everything had been leeding to this: The moment when ancient Greece create something more human than human" Awesome Line¡¡

[DrSlug]

Seen this while studying in University in UK. Loved the documentary loved the soundtrack, loved the idea.

Greetings from Greece!

[featheredmusic]

Fascinating! 

[ealelg]

traducir porfavor

es necesario que los hispanos entendamos bien este reportaje

avisenme si existe en español

[sisypha]

As a professional sculptor I felt it my duty to go and see the Riace bronzes last year. What a lesson of humility, and what an enrichening experience. If you haven't seen them yet I would strongly advise you to go. Simply superbe.

[R10freestyle]

im so proud to be greek

[Mmary247]

this video is ONE second loger than it should be

[stanyannie]

Amazing production of an amazing period in art. We take so much for granted. So beautiful, so well done. Thank you!

[CASIUSGELAEI]

Τα γλυπτά των αρχαίων Ελλήνων έχουν την πνευματική και καλλιτεχνική ισχύ του ανθρώπινου νου,και την ευθραστότητα του ανθρώπινου σώματος.Εξαιρετικό Doc.

[nujij10]

Thanks for sharing this video.

It's a pitty that the BBC series 'How Art made the World' is gone by YouTube.

I'am a big fan of this series

[FrankStockton]

I wrote that prematurely. I didn't realize that they were talking about a difference between proportional realism versus idealization. In short, you're correct.

[thefender98]

a little strange at 1:30

[FrankStockton]

So... if "realism" was so boring, why was it pursued for almost a thousand years in western art? Michelangelo's Pieta isn't boring, neither are the hundreds of statues by Bernini.

[tylerjay0]

Realism in art isn't boring because we marvel at the attention to detail and craft it would take to create such an object, what they are saying is that subtlety exaggerating details triggers more of an emotional response.

[tylerjay0]

Realism in art isn't boring because we marvel at the attention to detail and craft it would take to create such an object, what they are saying is that subtlety exaggerating details triggers more of an emotional response.

[Edoeren]

@FrankStockton

Except that right after Renaissance art perfected the human form, Mannerism took the spotlight, creating human figures with elongated forms, also "hyper real."

[stefanosrachi]

Πολύκλειτος (Greek - Ελληνικά)

[N8wood1]

i am an artist. so if you like art you should check out my video.

[EmpireNile]

The country of art .... really great (from Egypt

[Schweitzer007]

Very interesting, thanks for uploading this video!

[CloudsofBliss]

Love it.

[tripleleap]

what's the name of the sculptor/mathematician? Polly Clitos?... how do you spell his name.

[babylonianman]

Polyclitus

[mark1138]

@babylonianman Polyklietos?

[spudninja12]

@babylonianman Polykleitos I'm currently in the Greek chapter in my art history class, gotta love that contrapposto.

[Taxianthos]

@babylonianman in fact it's PolyclitOs . polyclitus is latin translation and ending. also it kills the greek word harmonies if u translate the O -> U .. Πολύκλειτος ( Πολύ & κλείτος ) means Much & good fame/honour.

[Haxxxable]

@babylonianman Polykleitos*

[solberser]

Polykleitos

[ILOVEMFEO]

@tripleleap πολύκλειτος u need gr fonts to read it :)

[downtownvirgo8]

@tripleleap  POLYKLEITOS

[vabilas28]

@tripleleap Polycleitos. Πολύκλειτος

[germanshible]

@tripleleap Polykleitos!

[degenerate7]

@tripleleap Polykleitos

[arbitress]

@tripleleap

Also Polykleitos. Transliterations of the original Greek have changed over the years, so it depends on the source.

[arbitress]

@tripleleap

Also Polykleitos. Transliterations of the original Greek have changed over the years, so how it's spelled in English depends on the source.

[LeonAmarantos]

@tripleleap Polycleitos (Πολύκλειτος)

[ThePsychoSarah]

@tripleleap its polykleitos dude..

[david18dusang]

@tripleleap Polyklietos is how you spell this name.

[jillerin457]

@tripleleap Actually it's Polykleitos. (Kind of late to answer, but the misspelling bugged me!)

[Manos26a]

unfortunately a lot of statues and other artefacts were destroyed after 2-3 century AD

[spacescience100]

There was some really intelligent people back then!!!

[faithlessgr]

Professor Ramachandran must spit a lot when he speaks

[mardinieng]

that was fascinating !!!

[anglicansag]

Hence Steroids and Boob Jobs !!!!!!!!!

Le Plus ca Change, C'est Plus la Meme Chose !

[acerb45666555]

the sculptures of women are my favorite! to bad they didnt portray any more Celtic or Germanic women. Thers only two depictions of Celtic women. one on a Roman coin, she has dreadlocks!. and one wearing a head scarf that is seen dead in the arms of her warrior husband as he stabs himself defiantly refusing to surrender to the Greeks. that particular Roman portrayal is a Marble copy of the Greek original made in bronze that is now lost.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Ancient Porn!

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Fantastico!

[Guevaristas]

crumbling decaying stone edifice disintergrates into dust before you eyes

[pentogram23]

well the Romans were influenced by the Greeks....They just did things in a grand way......

[mattsephton101]

Amazing. It's so interesting following the development of these statues from the archaic to classical period.

Got my Greek Sculpture exam today!!

This helped so thanks for uploading! :D

[Neoptolomos]

Simply Fantastic , isn't it?

Great !!

[Colts4ever123]

I was going to add my own comment but i cannot out do yours, you have fully complemented Hellas!

[rhcpfan1992]

borie

[funerallimosine1]

nature has been surpassed. michelangelo eat your heart out.

[eyeballinya]

absolutely beautiful

[Musiciswatilove]

could someone tell me the name of the music that is playing in the begining pls???

[Hellene01]

gee it feels good being hellenic....

[MyWayOfLife7]

your daaaaamn right sinellina

[nobodysfool37]

i love Spivey- he is the best lecturer

[kenwen4]

My art class loves this series.

[ArtistNotFound123]

unbelievable...

[godwratherror]

bbc quality.

[vabilas28]

@godwratherror and none bbc irony...that s a 1st

[TheChaonian]

Thank you so much!

[OrdoDraconis1378]

Great!!

[unabulaquena]

thanks for posting this.. :)

[jeannevdb]

Fantastic! :)