L.Barlow - A2 Classical Civilisations Metopes
Year Style Depiction Additional Notes
- Temple C in Selinus in Sicily
- Limestone
- All three look to front but Heracles walks to right
- Heracles and the - Striding legs enlivens diagonal accents in composition which is dominated by emphatic vertices
Kerkopes and horizontals
575-550 - Two imps handing -
Archaic Symmetrical forms of large and small figures
BC -
either side of Kerkopes are mirrored
Heracles - Arms, hair and faces arranged to form symmetrical patterns
- Carved in relief
- Figures protrude from background and figures are slightly in the round
- Sharpened by painted hair, eyes, clothing and background
- Sikonyian Treasury at Delphi
- Limestone
- Three surviving brothers occupy in full
- Height of metope is parallel to vertical figures
- Archair stance
- Cows facing front
- Illusion of depth
- Left hands = holding spears at same angle and walk in step with cattle
- Legs of figures and cows meticulously align and cow legs recede into the background
510 BC Archaic - Heroic Cattle Raid - Pattern of repeated form
- Horizontal spears in hands bind design together
- Each figure wears a belt, boots and cloak
- Extraordinary depth for the time
- Highly stylised
- Combination of profile and frontal
- Angularity
- Lack of facial expression
- Only a snapshot
- Too many patterns damage the realism
Year Style Depiction Additional Notes
- Temple C in Selinus in Sicily
- Limestone
- All three look to front but Heracles walks to right
- Heracles and the - Striding legs enlivens diagonal accents in composition which is dominated by emphatic vertices
Kerkopes and horizontals
575-550 - Two imps handing -
Archaic Symmetrical forms of large and small figures
BC -
either side of Kerkopes are mirrored
Heracles - Arms, hair and faces arranged to form symmetrical patterns
- Carved in relief
- Figures protrude from background and figures are slightly in the round
- Sharpened by painted hair, eyes, clothing and background
- Sikonyian Treasury at Delphi
- Limestone
- Three surviving brothers occupy in full
- Height of metope is parallel to vertical figures
- Archair stance
- Cows facing front
- Illusion of depth
- Left hands = holding spears at same angle and walk in step with cattle
- Legs of figures and cows meticulously align and cow legs recede into the background
510 BC Archaic - Heroic Cattle Raid - Pattern of repeated form
- Horizontal spears in hands bind design together
- Each figure wears a belt, boots and cloak
- Extraordinary depth for the time
- Highly stylised
- Combination of profile and frontal
- Angularity
- Lack of facial expression
- Only a snapshot
- Too many patterns damage the realism
