“History of Art of Ancient Greece” - Myron Discobolus. Who is the temple dedicated to and where is it located? Indicate the name of the temple. What is shown. The art of high classics. Leocharus Apollo Belvedere. Define the order. Greek theater. Art Ancient Greece. Polykleitos Doryphoros. Classic. In what buildings did the ancient Greeks use the order? Aphrodite de Milo.
“Ancient Theater of Ancient Greece” - Period. Greek theater. Ancient theater. Drama. Theater in Ancient Greece. Tragic actor costume. Number of actors. Thespis. Athenian public. Place for performances. Cult of Dionysus. Theater of the Greeks. The birth of theater in Athens. Tragedy.
“Sculpture of Greece” - High classic. Polykleitos. Hermes with Dionysus. Athenodorus. During the archaic period, they are created perfect image Men and women. In search of the ideal. Sculpture of Ancient Greece. Sophocles Maenad. Myron "Discobolus" 5th century. BC. Roman copy from a bronze original. Discophore. Agesander. IV century BC e. Roman copy. Early classic.
“Famous sculptures of Ancient Greece” - Salvador Dali. The standard of beauty has constantly changed over time, but modern version was formed in ancient times. We want to prove that the proportions that are considered ideal throughout the world were formed before our era in Ancient Greece. Venus de Milo. Sculpture of Ancient Hellas in the modern world.
“Mythology of Ancient Greece” - A child of amazing beauty is born from a cracked trunk - Adonis. One day Hades fell in love with the nymph Mentu or Mint. Hades. One day Demeter came to the city of Eleusis. Pan directed an unreasonable, so-called panic fear. Rubens Peter Paul. Poseidon. William Bouguereau "The Birth of Venus". Diana. According to myth, the goddess Demeter and Zeus had a young, beautiful daughter.
“Ancient Greek Vessels” - The psycter was placed in a liquid located in a crater. Oxybaphones. Mastos. Psykter. Served mainly for storage olive oil and wine. The neck is quite widened towards the edge. In Rome, amphoras with a volume of 26.03 liters were used to measure liquids. Amphora. It is possible that initially kanfar was used exclusively for religious rites.
Skopas - famous ancient greek sculptor the late classical period.
Born on the island of Paros and created his works in different areas Greece: Boeotia, Attica, Asia Minor, Arcadia between 370 and 330. His monuments are characterized by pathos and emotional emotion. Ancient authors mention more than twenty works of Skopas, although much fewer have survived to our time.
One of famous works from that period is the “Maenad” statue. The feelings overwhelmed by the bacchante and the companion of the god Dionysus are transmitted to the viewer, who is included in the experience of the image. With his “Maenad” Skopas conquered space for sculpture. However, although his statue is designed to go around in a circle and is not flat, like Myron’s “Disco Thrower,” it is still performed the same way and cannot leave the closed “cylinder” in which its dance is performed.
Skopas, together with other sculptors, participated in decorating the Halicarnassus mausoleum with relief friezes. Together with others, he created images of chariots, Amazonomachy and Centauromachy. Of these, only a few fragments have survived from the third frieze, created in 352. The style of different masters is quite clearly felt in them.
In the reliefs of Skopas, more attention is paid to the expression of the fighters. His figures are placed more freely.
It is impossible to place them closer, since the emotional expressiveness of each of them is enormous. If they were located closer, they would begin to crowd each other.
Among other craftsmen, interest prevails in the decorative play of folds of cloaks and clothes. On the frieze of the Halicarnassus mausoleum, light and shadow contrasts produce a special effect: they dramatize light flashes that give way to deep shadows. They introduce an anxiety into the battle scene that was alien to fifth-century reliefs. Unlike the Parthenon zophorus, where the movement began slowly, then moved faster, and at the end slowed down again, ending in solemn peace, here the movement is often interrupted, as if encountering an obstacle. And the next moment it is revealed with even greater force.
The images of the frieze emphasize the alternation of low and tall characters, who stand on their knees or at full height, sometimes lie down, having fallen, so that the connection of the upper points of the figures gives rise to a wavy line. At the same time, the rise and fall of the tension of the battle and the change in mood are shown. Rage goes along with despair.
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(Skupas), ancient Greek sculptor and architect of the 4th century. BC e. Representative of the late classics. Born on the island of Paros, he worked in Tegea (now Piali, Greece), Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) and other cities in Greece and Asia Minor. He took part in the construction of the temple of Athena Aley in Tegea (350-340 BC) and the mausoleum in Halicarnassus (mid-4th century BC). Among the original sculptural works of Skopas that have come down to us, the most important is the frieze of the mausoleum in Halicarnassus depicting the Amazonomachy, that is, the battle of the Amazons (mid-4th century BC; together with Briaxis, Leochares and Timothy; fragments - in British Museum). Numerous works by Scopas are known from Roman copies - the statues "Pothos" (Usrfitsi), "Young Hercules" (previously in the Lansdowne collection, London), "Meleager" (Vatican Museums; Villa Medici, Rome), "Maenad" (Sculpture collection, Dresden ). Having abandoned the characteristic of ancient Greek art of the 5th century. BC e. harmonious tranquility of images, Skopas turned to the transmission of strong emotional experiences, a dramatic struggle of passions. To implement them, Skopas used the dynamism of the composition and new techniques for interpreting details: deep-set eyes, folds on the forehead, an open mouth, as well as the tense rhythm of the folds of clothes. The work of Skopas, saturated with tragic pathos, had a great influence on the sculptors of the Hellenistic era ( cm. Hellenistic art), in particular on the masters who worked in the 3rd-2nd centuries. BC e. in the city of Pergamon.
"Amazonomachy". Fragment of the frieze of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum. Marble. Around 350 BC British museum. London.
Literature: A. P. Chubova, Skopas, L.-M., 1959; Arias P. E., Skopas, Roma, 1952.
(Source: “Popular art encyclopedia.” Edited by V.M. Polevoy; M.: Publishing house " Soviet encyclopedia", 1986.)
Skopas(Skópas), Greek sculptor and architect of the 4th century. BC e. Possibly the son and student of Aristander. He worked in Tegea (now Piali), Halicarnassus (now Bodrum) and other cities of Greece and Asia Minor. He supervised the construction of the temple of Athena in Tegea (Peloponnese), which survived only in ruins. On the east pediment The temple depicted the mythical hunt for the Calydonian boar, and the western one depicted the duel between the hero Telephus and Achilles. The head of Hercules, warriors, hunters and a boar have been preserved, as well as fragments of male statues and a female torso, probably a participant in Atalanta’s hunt. In one of the fragments - the head of a wounded warrior - for the first time in Greek sculpture, pain and suffering, confusion of feelings were embodied.
Skopas together with others. outstanding sculptors of his time (Leochares, Briaxis, Timothy) worked on the decoration of the famous Halicarnassus Mausoleum (completed c. 351 BC), considered one of seven wonders of the world. Plates with reliefs surrounded the building with a continuous ribbon frieze. Scopas may have been the author of the best surviving fragments depicting the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons. The battle scenes are permeated with the fury of combat and violent movement; in them one can hear the ringing of swords, the whistling of arrows, and warlike cries. Dr. the works of Scopas are known only from Roman copies (“Young Hercules”, “Meleager”). The most famous among the unsurvived sculptures of Skopas was “Maenad” - a figurine of a girl, a companion of the god Dionysus, rushing in a frantic dance. The dancer’s body seems to be twisted into a spiral, her head is thrown back, her clothes are fluttering, revealing her beautiful body. In the art of Skopas, for the first time, the excitement of feelings, dramatic pathos, violent movement found expression - everything that Greek sculpture had never known before. Skopas' works had a significant impact on the sculptors of the era Hellenism.
(Source: “Art. Modern illustrated encyclopedia.” Edited by Prof. Gorkin A.P.; M.: Rosman; 2007.)
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(Skupas), ancient Greek sculptor and architect of the 4th century. BC e. Representative of the late classics. Born on the island of Paros, he worked in Tegea (now Piali, Greece), Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) and other cities in Greece and Asia Minor. He took part in the construction of the temple of Athena Aley in Tegea (350-340 BC) and the mausoleum in Halicarnassus (mid-4th century BC). Among the original sculptural works of Skopas that have come down to us, the most important is the frieze of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus depicting the Amazonomachy, that is, the battle of the Amazons (mid-4th century BC; together with Briaxis, Leochares and Timothy; fragments are in the British Museum). Numerous works by Scopas are known from Roman copies - the statues "Pothos" (Usrfitsi), "Young Hercules" (previously in the Lansdowne collection, London), "Meleager" (Vatican Museums; Villa Medici, Rome), "Maenad" (Sculpture collection, Dresden ). Having abandoned the characteristic of ancient Greek art of the 5th century. BC e. harmonious tranquility of images, Skopas turned to the transmission of strong emotional experiences, a dramatic struggle of passions. To implement them, Skopas used the dynamism of the composition and new techniques for interpreting details: deep-set eyes, folds on the forehead, an open mouth, as well as the tense rhythm of the folds of clothes. The work of Skopas, saturated with tragic pathos, had a great influence on the sculptors of the Hellenistic era ( cm. Hellenistic art), in particular on the masters who worked in the 3rd-2nd centuries. BC e. in the city of Pergamon.
"Amazonomachy". Fragment of the frieze of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum. Marble. Around 350 BC British museum. London.
Literature: A. P. Chubova, Skopas, L.-M., 1959; Arias P. E., Skopas, Roma, 1952.
(Source: “Popular Art Encyclopedia.” Edited by V.M. Polevoy; M.: Publishing House “Soviet Encyclopedia”, 1986.)
Skopas(Skópas), Greek sculptor and architect of the 4th century. BC e. Possibly the son and student of Aristander. He worked in Tegea (now Piali), Halicarnassus (now Bodrum) and other cities of Greece and Asia Minor. He supervised the construction of the temple of Athena in Tegea (Peloponnese), which survived only in ruins. On the east pediment The temple depicted the mythical hunt for the Calydonian boar, and the western one depicted the duel between the hero Telephus and Achilles. The head of Hercules, warriors, hunters and a boar have been preserved, as well as fragments of male statues and a female torso, probably a participant in Atalanta’s hunt. In one of the fragments - the head of a wounded warrior - for the first time in Greek sculpture, pain and suffering, confusion of feelings were embodied.
Skopas, together with other outstanding sculptors of his time (Leochares, Briaxis, Timothy), worked on decorating the famous Halicarnassus Mausoleum (completed c. 351 BC), considered one of seven wonders of the world. Plates with reliefs surrounded the building with a continuous ribbon frieze. Scopas may have been the author of the best surviving fragments depicting the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons. The battle scenes are permeated with the fury of combat and violent movement; in them one can hear the ringing of swords, the whistling of arrows, and warlike cries. Dr. the works of Scopas are known only from Roman copies (“Young Hercules”, “Meleager”). The most famous among the unsurvived sculptures of Skopas was “Maenad” - a figurine of a girl, a companion of the god Dionysus, rushing in a frantic dance. The dancer’s body seems to be twisted into a spiral, her head is thrown back, her clothes are fluttering, revealing her beautiful body. In the art of Skopas, for the first time, the excitement of feelings, dramatic pathos, violent movement found expression - everything that Greek sculpture had never known before. Skopas' works had a significant impact on the sculptors of the era Hellenism.
(Source: “Art. Modern illustrated encyclopedia.” Edited by Prof. Gorkin A.P.; M.: Rosman; 2007.)
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From the book Encyclopedic Dictionary (C) author Brockhaus F.A.Skopas Skopas is an ancient Greek sculptor of the so-called Noo-Attic school, originally from Paros, who worked in the first half of the 4th century. BC One of his first works was the restoration of the Tegean temple of Athena Alea, destroyed in 395 by fire, for which Skopas Shalom Leibovich was born. I was born in July 1925 in the city of Panevezys in Lithuania. There were four brothers in our family. My father went to America to work in 1928 and did not return to Lithuania. Our family rented a room and a half; throughout my childhood we were poor and terribly hungry. Just four
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From the author's bookSkopas Shalom Leibovich (Interview with G. Koyfman) assistant platoon commander of the 18th separate reconnaissance company of the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division On January 12, 1945, a few days before the division was transferred from Courland to Klaipeda, I received an order to immediately take a fresh
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During the period under review, one of the largest sculptors Greece - Skopas, who worked under the influence of the school of Polykleitos
In the era of the highest secondary flowering of Greek sculpture, we meet Scopas and Praxiteles - two great masters who, together with Phidias and Polykleitos, are recognized as the greatest Greek sculptors. The eldest of them, Scopas, was an Athenian. He was born on the island of Paros, famous for its marble, studied, apparently, in the Peleponnese under the influence of the school of Polykleitos, and then in Athens, where a lot of work awaited him. He turned out to be a real Attic artist. Later he moved to Asia Minor and participated in the activities undertaken there important works. The activity of Skopas dates mainly to the first half of the 4th century. Of the works left by this artist in the Peloponnese, first of all it is necessary to mention the pediment groups of the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, which, according to Pausanias, was built by him. On the pediment of the front side of the temple the hunt for the Calydonian boar of Meleager and Atlas was depicted, and on the pediment of the opposite side - the battle of Achilles with Telephus. It is quite characteristic that in Elis Scopas contrasted the heavenly Aphrodite of Phidias, made of gold and ivory, with a bronze Aphrodite, dedicated to all the people (Pandemos), riding on a goat. Among the works of the Attic period of Skopas' activity were two Erinyes, according to Pausanias, not scary looking, standing in the Areopagus, then a Bacchante, repeatedly described and sung, depicted in the ecstasy of Bacchic passion, with her head thrown back, in flowing clothes and with a torn sacrificial kid in her hands. In Athens, Skopas executed the statues of Eros, Chimera and Pathos, which adorned the Theater of Aphrodite. Even in ancient times, people were amazed at the subtlety with which the famous master managed to express in these works the difference between such related feelings as love, passionate desire and infatuation. Finally, to last period The activities of Scopas in Athens include a marble Apollo in a long robe playing the cithara - a statue transported by Augustus to Rome on the Palatine Hill, where it was honored under the name of Apollo Palatine. As works of the Asia Minor period of Skopas' activity, one should point out his works on the eastern wall of the Halicarnassus mausoleum, and then on the statues of Dionysus and Athena on Knidos, Apollo Smintheus trampling a mouse with his foot in Chryses.
Among the works of Scopas, which were subsequently transported to Rome and glorified his name there, were especially famous the marble Aphrodite, the colossal statue of the resting god of war and a huge group depicting Poseidon, Thetis and Achilles, accompanied by a whole retinue of Nereids, Tritons and other lower sea deities. Pliny the Elder said about this group that it would have become an outstanding work, even if it had been performed using whole life. It was rightly noted that in this work Skopas was the real creator of plastic images of the sea kingdom. As for the group of Niobe and her children, who were in Rome, in the temple of Apollo Sosianus, being fought by the arrows of Apollo and Artemis, the ancient Roman experts doubted who it belonged to: Scopas or Praxiteles.
Already in literary legends Skopas appears as a sculptor of an idealistic direction, in highest degree a skilled technician, the creator of a whole series of new, previously unknown motifs, an artist of inspired sensuality, but at the same time an artist of ecstatic impulses and the finest emotional movements. Turning to those monuments of ancient sculpture that have come down to us, which would give an idea of the art of Skopas, we first of all encounter many assumptions, in the confirmation or refutation of which, in addition to L. Ulrich, the author of the ancient work, such researchers as G. Trey took part , Botho-Graef, Weil, L. von Siebel, and Furtwängler. Elis coins from the time of the Roman emperors give us an idea of Aphrodite Pandemos riding on a goat. On the coins of the emperors Augustus and Nero we see, although partly in different modifications, Apollo Palatine in a long robe, and on the Alexandrian-Troassian coins of the times of Commodus and Caracalla - Apollo Smyntheus, standing with one foot on a dais and holding right hand Laurel wreath.
Next we encounter some works of Greek sculpture, in which it is more or less likely that we see the original works of Scopas. In assessing them, we join Trey's opinion. First of all, let us dwell on the fragments of the pediment groups of the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, found during German excavations in 1879, namely, on fragments of the hunt of Meleager, which adorned the eastern pediment, on the head of a boar and on two male heads, one of which is wearing a helmet, and the other - simple-haired. The expression on their faces is immediately recognizable as the work of Skopas; the techniques by which he achieved this expression were used only by him: the lower part of the forehead protrudes strongly forward, as a result of which the eyes seem sunken, with narrow eyelids, although they themselves are large and wide open. The half-opened mouth of one of these heads expresses the “breath of life” that distinguished Skopas’s works. The overall impression we get is of such spiritual vitality as art has never achieved before; but we immediately see the expression of painful sensations: this is pathos, joining ephos or even replacing it.
We then move on to the remains of the eastern wall of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum. All that has survived of the luxurious sculptural decorations of this building is in the British Museum in London. The colossal statues of the king and queen (Fig. 279), sculpted by the temple builder Pythias himself and adorning the pyramidal roof, are figures full of nobility, importance and truth of life; the transition from the geometric forms of the building to these figures hovering above it made a favorable impression in an architectural sense. Among the remains of plastic decorations covering the bottom and top of the building, one can discern a frieze depicting a chariot race, another - a battle of centaurs, and a third - a battle of Amazons. According to Pliny the Elder, all these statues are the work of Scopas and three others famous sculptors; Skopas worked on the eastern wall, Briaxis on the northern, Timothy on the southern, and Leochares on the western. Of the surviving friezes, a piece from the eastern wall representing the battle of the Amazons is described in the excavation report. There is no reason not to attribute it to Scopas himself, as Newton, Trey, Michaelis and others do, if only we take into account that in such work the chief master usually has assistants. In terms of passion and naturalness of movements, understanding of nudity and arrangement of draperies, these scenes of the struggle of the Greeks with the Amazons leave nothing to be desired (Fig. 280). A galloping horse with an Amazon sitting on it backwards - best part total frieze. The Greeks are depicted completely naked, but with shields in their hands and some wearing helmets. The clothes of the Amazons, to give them a sensual charm, are sometimes equipped with side slits. Trey saw some here too distinctive features Tegean heads: “Wide flat cheeks, frontal tubercles protruding forward, big eyes with a narrow cut and deeply protruding internal corners eye".
Based on the Tegean type of heads, some other original works in Greek collections are attributed to Scopas with complete confidence; such, for example, are the beautiful female head found on the slope of the Acropolis, and the head of an athlete at Olympia. Likewise, the work of Skopas is now universally recognized for the magnificent tombstone relief originating from Ilissos, in which the main figure is a seated naked youth with a melancholy, pensive expression of wide-open eyes.
The matter will become more difficult as soon as we, together with Furtwängler, set out to look for the figures of Skopas among the works of later copyists. Furtwängler managed to find many arguments in favor of the fact that copies of the youthful works of Scopas, still reminiscent of Polykleitov's body sculpting, were preserved in Hercules at the Lansdowne Collection in London, in beautiful bronze statues of the youth Asclepius in Karlsruhe and Hermes Palatine in the Baths Museum in Rome. In contrast to the bodies, the heads of these statues are made in the Attic spirit. Suggestions that from the later works of Scopas, his Palatine Apollo served as the original for the Vatican Apollo Cyfared, with his long and magnificent robe, and the colossal statue of the seated Ares - for the resting Ares Ludovisi, clasping his left knee with his hands, a statue located in the Buoncompagna Museum in Rome, - scientists support as often as they challenge. Although we, for our part, do not recognize these works exact copies and we consider Cupid at the feet of Ares to be an addition to the copyist, but we still agree with Furtwängler and Michaelis, who believe that from these famous museum works one can get an idea of the later period of Skopas’s work. We must say the same about the Athena of the Uffizi Museum, endowed with a dreamy look, and about the famous Vatican Meleager, full of inspiration. “Here,” said Furtwängler, “a huge revolution is visible. Instead of clearly defined planes, everything merges into a rounded, magnificent modeling.” Added to this dignity in the said statues is the expression of thoughtfulness or emotional experiences in the eyes, the reflection of mood in them, which is characteristic feature Skopasa.
