sculpture, Greek
sculpture, GreekOrigins
(c.1000–c.600 BC) Of Dark-Age sculpture, only small bronzes and terracottas survive; unpretentious at first, by the 8th cent. they tend to favour the rigorously analytical forms of contemporary vase-painting. Some wooden cult images certainly existed, though most were perhaps aniconic or semi-iconic. Yet Homer describes an Athena at Troy that was probably lifesize and fully human in form (Iliad 6. 297ff.); and a half-lifesize Apollo, a Leto, and an Artemis, bronze-plated over a wooden core, survive from Cretan Drerus (see Crete) as confirmation (c.750). This sphyrelaton technique is near-eastern in origin. On close inspection the works reveal a careful attention to proportions, a command of volume and mass, and a strong sense of articulation (based on the...[The entire page is 2707 words long]
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