Temporis - Greek Sculpture

  1. 作者 :
  2. Edmund von Mach
  3. 出版社 :
  4. Parkstone
  5. 提取碼 :
  6. 762063
  7. 分類 :
  8. 攝影及藝術

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Greek Sculpture is probably the most well known aspect of Greek art, for a contemporary it expresses the most beautiful ideal and plastic perfection. It is the first of the Ancient Arts that looked to free itself from the imitative constraints, of the faithful representation of nature. Only a small part of the production of Greek Sculpture is known to us. Many of the masterpieces described by Antique literature are henceforth lost or badly damaged, and a large part, we know are copies, more or less skillful and faithful to the Roman era. Many have been restored by Western Sculptors, from the Renaissance to nowadays, and often in a meaning very different from the original work: a discobolous is thus turned into a dying gladiator, this god received the attributes of another, the legs of this statue are transplanted to the torso of this other one.

“The soul of Greek Sculpture contains in it all sculpture. Its essential simplicity, defies all definition. We can feel it, but we can not express it. ‘Open your eyes, study the statues, look, reflect and look again,’ is the perpetual perception of anyone who wants to learn or know about Greek Sculpture.”


About the author:
Edmund von Mach (1870-1927) was an art historian and a professor at the department of fine arts of Harvard University. He wrote several books on ancient art such as A Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture but also on recent subjects such as Outlines of the History of Painting and The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century.

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  • ISBN:
  • 9781780429779
  • 出版日期 :
  • 2013-05-31