Archaic Architectural Sculpture
Limitations
- Must take pedimental shape
- Consistency of scale
- Intelligibility
- Story/message
- Low triangle- awkward shape to fill
- Trying to adjust the figures to fill shape while ensuring beautiful patterns produced and
making figures and scenes convincingly naturalistic
Temple of Artemis- Medusa
- Medusa and her offspring
- At Corfu
- Limestone
- 580 BC
- Features:
• Priam - far left
• Reclining Panthers -left and right of Medusa
• Medusa’s children - Left and right of Medusa
• Gigantomachy - far right
• Medusa fleeing Perseus - middle
- Typically Archaic:
• Represent fierce animals
• Archaic smile
• Symmetrical
• Poor proportion
• Lack of cohesion between stories
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