Hellenistic period (ca. 323-30 BCE)
Nike of Samothrace (ca. 190 BCE)
In art, both architects and sculptors broke most of the rules of Classical design. Hellenistic sculptors explored new subjects… Artists delighted in depicting violent movement and unbridled emotion (Kleiner, 2009).
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Late Classical period (ca. 400-323 BCE)
Aphrodite of Knidos (ca. 350-340 BCE) by Praxiteles (Roman copy). The first nude statue of a goddess.
More focus on the real world of appearances than to the ideal world of perfect beings. Smaller heads and slimmer bodies. The expression is more passionate and sculptors had a more individual style than earlier.
Early Classical period (480-450 BCE)
Zeus (or Poseidon?), from the sea off Cape Artemision, Greece, ca. 460-450 BCE.
A huge development from the stiff postures of the archaic (600-480 BCE) kouros to nude athletes, movement, more naturalistic poses, bronze materials and contrapposto (weight shift).
Other famous early classical sculptures: Myron’s Discus Thrower (ca. 450 BCE)
(Source: fransite.net)
Nike of Samothrace (ca. 200 BC)
Found in Samothrace in 1863
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