{Classical Greek Art [continued (6)]} ([–] Sculpture [continued (3)] [– Balance [continued]])[27th January 1991]

[Redbook8:193][19910127:1250f]{Classical Greek Art [continued (6)]} ([–] Sculpture [continued (3)] [– Balance [continued]])[27th January 1991]

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‘With Kritios and Nesiotes we are on slightly surer ground. They made the statues of the Tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton erected in 477/6[bce],* which have been identified in several copies that show a vigorous composition of two striding, ** threatening figures with powerfully modelled musculature. The famous bronze Zeus, poised to throw his thunderbolt,*** found in the sea off Artemisium (National Museum, Athens), is an original of the same type, some 15 years younger.**** All are shown at that self-contained moment of balance, just before an action,# in which the sculptors of the Transitional Period were particularly interested, and which was developed to its limits c460-450BC[E]#* by Myron of Eleutherae with his Discobolus#** and his Athene and Marsyas#*** (copies in Museo Nationale, Rome; Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main; and Lateran Museum, Rome, respectively [sic]).

#****

*512C512BCE

(64A~480BCE)

512S~r~448BCE

**S~→M~→U~

***C→M~→U~

****ie c462/1 (64G~464BCE)

(& NB 512S~r~448BCE)

#

C
	\
		S~
			\
				M~

(In the ms the lines are broken, & the lowest is a downward-sloping arrow)

#*

(64G~464 – C)\

512C512 – S~r~ 448BCE

#**

C

☼ DISC M~

#***

G~ - cf T.XII

so:

		C
	/		\
g~		?		M~
	\		/
		–

(In the ms the upper two lines are downward-sloping arrows)

#****– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:]133

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