I often wonder why artists of the past create the human as they did. With ancient Greeks, you get the ideal. With Republican Rome, you get the realistic. It's fascinating to follow these trends through the millennia.
doesn't contra mean opposite? as in "contrary" thus contraposto means "a contrary-pose" the two legs are contrary to each other: one relaxed and one holding the weight of the body. He is no longer symmetrical. But left to right, flesh and spirit, god and human etc.....
The original was created in bronze, but as bronze was a valuable resource, the sculpture was lost, likely melted down and used for something else. Romans admired Greek sculpture and recreated sculptures such as the Doryphoros in marble. The brace between the wrist and hip as well as the log or stump-looking counterweight to the back wouldn't have been present in the original bronze sculpture as it could have been melded down to a base. These little counterweights are like Roman "tells," something that they did because as the sculpture was free-standing in marble, it needed to be properly balanced. Only four of these exist in the world, today. The one in the video above is in marvelous condition; the one that I like to visit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is a bit more broken down, but spectacular nonetheless.
I've seen the Kouros in a hybrid art-history course I took a few hundred years ago, lol. If a grave marker, I'm curious why have him be the idea of a human rather than a representation of the human whose grave's being marked. It'd make more sense for a naturalistic approach, but maybe the message is that the deceased has evolved / transcended in some way through death? It's interesting. Doryphoros arrests my attention - I'd much rather see him over a grave.
@@smarthistory-art-history I'm very excited to hear it. Definitely looking forward to seeing what you guys have done / will do and how your content evolves.☺
That is a great analysis, so valuable and helpful. Thanks for sharing!
I often wonder why artists of the past create the human as they did. With ancient Greeks, you get the ideal. With Republican Rome, you get the realistic. It's fascinating to follow these trends through the millennia.
Actually with classical Greek you get the realism and the Hellenistic Greek the more emotional. The Romans mostly copied Greek works of art
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Reminds me of my Art History class. Good stuff!
A whole video on contropasto, lol, I was hoping for a vid like this
doesn't contra mean opposite? as in "contrary" thus contraposto means "a contrary-pose" the two legs are contrary to each other: one relaxed and one holding the weight of the body. He is no longer symmetrical. But left to right, flesh and spirit, god and human etc.....
his voice is relaxing
It clearly doesn't change any of the points made here, but the Doryphoros is a Roman copy, correct?
That is correct. We note this in the end credits at 9:27. Thanks for mentioning.
The original was created in bronze, but as bronze was a valuable resource, the sculpture was lost, likely melted down and used for something else. Romans admired Greek sculpture and recreated sculptures such as the Doryphoros in marble. The brace between the wrist and hip as well as the log or stump-looking counterweight to the back wouldn't have been present in the original bronze sculpture as it could have been melded down to a base. These little counterweights are like Roman "tells," something that they did because as the sculpture was free-standing in marble, it needed to be properly balanced. Only four of these exist in the world, today. The one in the video above is in marvelous condition; the one that I like to visit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is a bit more broken down, but spectacular nonetheless.
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Dia 20/03/2023 completando ''Uma introdução à arte da história'' no Khan Academy.
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I've seen the Kouros in a hybrid art-history course I took a few hundred years ago, lol. If a grave marker, I'm curious why have him be the idea of a human rather than a representation of the human whose grave's being marked. It'd make more sense for a naturalistic approach, but maybe the message is that the deceased has evolved / transcended in some way through death? It's interesting. Doryphoros arrests my attention - I'd much rather see him over a grave.
That is an old video! We were back in Naples recently and recorded a new audio and took new photographs-with luck we will have a brand new video soon.
@@smarthistory-art-history I'm very excited to hear it. Definitely looking forward to seeing what you guys have done / will do and how your content evolves.☺