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Archaic – Early Classical Stele carvings.. A Stele? Freestanding relief sculptures. Grave markers or Votive offerings. Very popular in Attica. Rectangular.

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1 Archaic – Early Classical Stele carvings.

2 A Stele? Freestanding relief sculptures. Grave markers or Votive offerings. Very popular in Attica. Rectangular sculptural field- narrow and tall. Grave markers often topped with decorative elements (sphinx, gable, etc)

3 Youth with Young girl. Attica. 550BC

4 Discus thrower. c550 BC

5 Hero and Consort approached by two worshippers. Laconia 550 – 540 BC

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7 Aritsion Marble. Attica. 510 BC. Memorial to a warrior. Signed by Aristokles Beard tip attached separately. Depth.

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10 Old Man offering a locust to a dog. Limestone. Boeotia 490 BC

11 Mourning Athena. Found on Acropolis. c470. H 0.48. Pentellic marble. Background painted blue. Reading list of dead?

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13 Demeter gives corn to Triptolemos. Eleusis. 440-430 BC

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17 The technical stuff. Usually pentelic marble. Deep relief. Figures almost in the round. Drapery thicker and more enveloping – less linear. Figures heavy and square. Craftmanship varies in quality between sculptors. Set within an architectural frame.

18 Emotion in stone Relationships expressed through touching, yearning, reaching hands. Tender expressions. Figures portrayed as physically perfect. Often engaged in everyday activities- poignant. Won’t be doing that again. Women usually seated.

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23 Ilissos stele. c350-325BC Found in river Ilissos, Athens. Grave marker of young man. Young man perfect – prime of life. Weeping slave boy, sad dog. Sad, mournful old man. Dreamlike expression of deceased. No physical contact between characters. Poignant, sorrowful, heartbreaking, ghostly.

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