History of Art 1/3 - Pure Beauty

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Please put the CC on. Ancient Greek art, sculpture
Personae:
The late Michael Matthews (actor) in the play 'Klaagliederen' (Lamentations) of Gerardjan Rijnders (stage director) 1994; Myron, Praxitiles, Socrates, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Apollo, Dionysos, Lysippos, Polykleitos, Vitruvius, Friedrich Nietzsche
Sculptures:
00:35 David - Michelangelo, 01:50 Venus de Milo - Alexandros of Antioch, 02:27 Lady of Auxerre - unknown, 02:48 kouroi (Kleobis and Biton) - Polymedes of Argos, 03:20 Charioteer - Polyzalos of Gela, 03:48 Discus Thrower (Diskobolos / Discobolus) - Myron (Roman copy), 04:36 Hermes and the Infant Dionysos - Praxiteles (Roman copy), 04:55 Apollo Belvédère - Leochares (Roman copy), 05:12 Laocoön and his Sons - Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, 06:06 Warriors from the sea off Riace - unknown, 06:25 Athena and the Trojan archer ("Paris") from the Temple of Aphaia -- unknown, 09:08 Apollo Sauroktonos - Praxiteles , (Roman copy), 09:46 Apoxyomenos - Lysippos, 10:20 Doryphoros and Diadumenos - Polykleitos
Further:
Tut Anch Amon and his wife; rhombicuboctahedron designed by Leonardo da Vinci, temple of Apollo (Delphi, Greece). Nietzsche painted by Edvard Munch,
Subjects:
classical ideal of beauty, Egyptian - Greek art, coloring of ancient Greek sculptures, body proportions, Apolonian versus Dionysian beauty concept.
Literature:
Eco, U. (2002). On Beauty. London: Secker & Warburg.
Gombrich, E.H. (1990). Eeuwige schoonheid (The story of art). Houten (NL): De Haan.
Music:
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), Concerto in C major

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  • The Greeks were the true masters, we are but mere pretenders to their gloried throne of beauty and of grace.

  • @ImaginedWriter - Well, isn't that too much honour?

  • @betapicts No it isn't.

  • @Bilfo and - let's say - Michelangelo, a pretender?

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  • nice.....

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