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Drew Layton.  c490BC  As the name suggests was on the west pediment  Meant to be Paris of Troy  Excavated in 1811  Bought by King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

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1 Drew Layton

2  c490BC  As the name suggests was on the west pediment  Meant to be Paris of Troy  Excavated in 1811  Bought by King Ludwig I of Bavaria  Currently held in the Glyptothek

3  Archaic style  Depicts the scenes of the Trojan war  The entire pediment was painted brightly  Many soldiers that fought in Troy came from Aegina which explains why this was  Athena stands in the middle meaning she is the tallest sculpture  Sculptor was very good at using space  Paris overlaps with other sculptures

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5  Originally painted  Has Archaic features: ◦ Archaic smile ◦ Almond eyes ◦ Telephone ears ◦ Small amount of muscle definition  Pose shows aiming with a bow  Clothed, No heroic nudity

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7  Pose allows for the statue to fit in with the pediment  The pose is also different to standard archaic sculptures  Front foot raised at the front  Not symmetrical  Identified by his hat

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10  Statues instead of relief because the sculptors realised there was more potential with this method and it created a more realistic and better looking pediment

11  ‘Before the end of the 6 th century BC sculptors had found a way to treat the pediment shelf as if it were a real space, populated with credible figures, conceived of in terms of a unified scale and involved in a single story’  ‘Figures in combat – standing, striding, kneeling, falling or even expiring in the corners – could assume that would lower their heads as required without affecting the scale of their bodies’

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