6 terms

Luxembourgish	English
Praxiteles	a man who live about 100 yrs. after Phidias who created figures that were more lifelike and natural inform and size
Hermes and Dionysos	Praxiteles 330 BC A response to classical age: a New Canon, abstracted from nature 1. two figures interacting each other 2. a story beyond statue 3. a new proportion system, like new temples: more elegant, slender, elongated, taller, refined figure 4. more curves compared to Doryphorus 5. stretch into space: no longer limited in blocks
Aphrodite of Knidos	Praxiteles; Roman Copy 1. completely nude (in the past usu. slave girls were nude) 2. A legend: Aphrodite saw the statue, and approved the new form 3. An idealized female form: curvature, slender 4. Possible to look at the statue from all sides, not limiting the frong view 5. not openly erotic (the trend of the period: individualized, emotional, violent)
Lysippos	created the new canon 1:8 heads, smaller heads, slender shoulders.
Apoxyomenos	Lysippos 1. New proportion system 2. Break down the frontal view limit, encourage to view from multiple angles (thus fit in the Tholos sanctuary) 3. Stretching into space 4. Distinct expression 5. Motion: scraping oil to you
Farnese Herakles	Lysippos 1. Invert the story of strongest man 2. Though muscular: weary. Emotion was embedded 3. The idea of balance was abandoned: tripod effect 4. Interest in humanizing gods and great heros

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