ARHI4010/6010:
Classical and Hellenistic Greek Art
Dr. Frances Van Keuren,
University of Georgia
Works Not Illustrated in Textbooks
and Ancient Textual Commentary

STUDY GUIDE #2

fvankeur@aol.com


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Original sculptures have an "O" and copies have a "C" next to their name.
The material named within parentheses is that of the original sculpture.
Click on image for larger view.


Middle Hellenistic Period, 250-160 B.C.

C Doidalsas’ Crouching or Bathing Aphrodite (originally with Eros ?), perhaps in Bithynia (bronze ?), rococo with baroque composition

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C Boethos’ Boy with Goose (marble or bronze), rococo with baroque composition

Photograph from AICT

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C Polykles’ Sleeping Hermaphrodite (bronze), rococo with baroque composition
C Epigonos’ Menelaos & Patroklos, perhaps in Athena Sanctuary at Pergamon (bronze), baroque

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Reconstruction of Acropolis of Pergamon, Staatliche Museen, Berlin the Athena sanctuary, where the three Gaul Monuments were located, is directly above the uppermost seats of the theater.

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Plan of Athena sanctuary, the Acropolis of Pergamon, showing the round Gaul Monument in the center of the precinct, and the two rectangular Gaul Monuments in the south part of the precinct.

Reconstruction of round Gaul Monument, Athena Sanctuary, Pergamon (bronze), baroque.
Gaul Monument, Athena Sanctuary, Pergamon (bronze), baroque

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Epigonos' Dying Trumpeter, from one of the Gaul Monuments in Athena Sanctuary at Pergamon (bronze), baroque

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Drunken Old Woman, perhaps showing a participant in Ptolemaic festival of Adonis, Alexandria, Egypt (see J.J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age, 1986, p. 143; purpose of festival was to celebrate death and resurrection of Adonis, who was shared between Aphrodite and Persephone and often identified with Near Eastern fertility god Tammuz); according to an alternate theory, woman would be connected with Dionysiac cult (see William R. Biers, The Archaeology of
Greece
, 2nd ed., 1996, p. 303)

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Pythokritos’ Nike from Sanctuary of Kabeiroi at Samothrace (Parian marble), Baroque. Reconstruction of fountain with Nike alighting on ship. From Heiner Knell, Die Nike von Samothrake, 1995, p. 79.

Pythokritos’ Nike from Sanctuary of Kabeiroi at Samothrace (Parian marble), Baroque

Painted Reconstructions from Virtual Sculpture Gallery


 

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go to Early Classical Period, 480-450 B.C.
go to Parthenon Period, 450-430 B.C.
go to Rich Style, 430-400 B.C.
go to Late Classical Period, 400-330 B.C.
go to Early Hellenistic Period, 330-250 B.C.
this page Middle Hellenistic Period, 250-160 B.C.
go to Late Hellenistic Period, 160-30 B.C.
go to The Greek Temple Plan &
                 The Three Architectural Orders
go to Temples & Freizes - All Periods
go to Works in Hellenistic Styles