Myrons Heifer Myron of Eleutherae 480 440 BC

Myron’s Heifer Myron of Eleutherae: 480 -440 BC, an Athenian sculptor. From a fountain in Athens, one of a lost group of statues portraying Theseus and the Minotaur. National Archeological Museum of Athens

Object of the Month: National Archeological Museum of Athens: Greek Couch http: //www. namuseum. gr/object-month/2012/nov 12 -en. html#

Development of Kouros See Kritios Boy, text p 112 and Kouros, p 95 Compare dates from text captions

Development of Kore - Peplos and himaton (p 97)

Venus Genetrix In 420 - 410 BC the Athenian sculptor Callimachus created a bronze sculpture of Aphrodite (now lost), which, according to Pliny’s Natural History, showed her dressed in a light but clinging chiton or peplos, which was lowered on the left shoulder to reveal her left breast and hung down in a sheer face and decoratively carved so as not to hide the outlines of the woman's body. Venus was depicted holding the apple won in the Judgment of Paris in her left hand, whilst her right hand moved to cover head. From the lost bronze original are derived all surviving copies. The composition was frontal, the body's form monumental, and in the surviving Roman replicas its proportions are close to the Polyclitean canon.

Roman Copy: Aphrodite of Frejus Louvre Museum http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Venus_Genetrix_(sculpture)

Apollo of Belvedere The Apollo is thought to be a Roman copy of Hadrianic date (ca. 120 -140) of a lost bronze original made between 350 and 325 BC by the Greek sculptor Leochares. The episode represented may be the slaying of Python the serpent guarding Delphi— making the sculpture a Pythian Apollo. Alternatively, it may be the slaying of the giant Tytios who threatened his mother Leto, or the episode of the Nyobids.

Boxer of Quirinal “Thermae boxer”: athlete resting after a boxing match. Bronze, Greek artwork of the Hellenistic era, 3 rd-2 nd centuries BC (the boulder is modern and replicates the ancient one). From the Thermae of Constantine National Museum of Rome