Image Discophoros BM.jpg thumb upright The Townley marbles Townley Discophoros British Museum Polyclitean canon The Discophoros , also spelled Discophorus , Greek Discus throw Discus Bearer was a bronze sculpture by the classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus sculptor Polyclitus , creator of the Doryphoros and Diadumenos , and its many Roman marble copies. It is not, however, to be confused with Discobolus of Myron , which shows a discus being thrown, not carried. Image DiscoboloRomaDF.JPG thumb upright left Discophorus fountain, on Calle Obregon in Colonia Roma in Mexico City Like the Doryphoros and Diadumenos, it was created as an example of Polyclitus s canon of the ideal human form in sculpture. It features a young, muscular, solidly built athlete in a moment of thought before throwing a discus. Most marble copies feature the addition of a marble tree stump marble is weaker but heavier than bronze as the stump is needed for support. These copies are also often missing their arms, which are often restored. File Diskophoros Via del Mare Musei Capitolini MC1865.jpg thumb upright left A variant, found in via del Mare, 1910 Capitoline Museums A variant is at the Louvre Museum . References Commonscat Discophoros Borbein, Adolf. Polykleitos , in O. Palagia and J.J. Pollitt, eds, Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture Yale Classical Studies XXX Cambridge University Press 1998 66 90. Summarizing traditional attributions. Herbert Beck, Peter C. Bol, Maraike B ckling Hrsg. Polyklet. Der Bildhauer der griechischen Klassik. Ausstellung im Liebieghaus Museum Alter Plastik Frankfurt am Main . Von Zabern, Mainz 1990 ISBN 3 8053 1175 3 Detlev Kreikenbom Bildwerke nach Polyklet. Kopienkritische Untersuchungen zu den m nnlichen statuarischen Typen nach polykletischen Vorbildern. Diskophoros , Hermes, Doryphoros, Herakles, Diadumenos . Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3 7861 1623 7 Category Ancient Greek sculpture types Category Sculptures by Polyclitus Category Archaeology of Greece Category Roman ... more details
File Discophoros Louvre Ma89.jpg thumb Discobolus , modeled after Naukydes. Naukydes of Argos 4th century BCE was a Greeks Greek sculptor from Argos . Taught under Polykleitos , he created a statue of gold and ivory of Hebe mythology Hebe for the temple of Hera in Argos also, statues of Hecate , Hermes , of the poet Erinna , and Phrixus . The discobolus of Naukydes was identified by Ennio Quirino Visconti , as mentioned by Pliny Haskell and Penny 1981 200 . He eventually became teacher to Polykleitos the Younger , son of his old teacher. External links http www.answers.com topic naukydes Some references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Naukydes Of Argos ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Naukydes Of Argos Category 4th century BC Greek sculptors Category Ancient Argives Greece sculptor stub de Naukydes pl Naukydes ... more details
Contrapposto is an Italian language Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance. It can also be used to refer to multiple figures which are in counter pose or opposite pose to one another. It can further encompass the stress medicine tension as a figure changes from resting on a given leg to walking or running upon it so called ponderation . Contrapposto is less emphasized than the more sinuous S Curve art S Curve . gallery Caption Examples of Contrapposto widths 250px heights 400px perrow 2 Image Michelangelos David.jpg David Michelangelo David , by Michelangelo . The shoulders of the figure are seen to angle in one direction, the pelvis in another. Image Doryphoros.jpg A marble copy of the Doryphoros of Polyclitus, an early example of classical contrapposto. The original bronze is lost. Image Leda and the Swan 1505 1510.jpg Leda and the Swan , copy by Cesare Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo da Vinci , 1515 1520 , Oil on canvas, Wilton House , England. Image Wenuszmf.jpg The Venus de Milo depicts a S Curve body shape gallery Contrapposto has been used since the dawn of classical western sculpture. According to the canon of the Classical Greek Sculpture Sculptor Polykleitos in the fourth century BC, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos , Skopas , etc. The Polykletian statues for example Discophoros discus bearer and Doryphoros spear bearer are idealized athletic young men with the divine sense, and captured in contrapposto. In these works, the pelvis is no longer Axial skeleton axial with the Kouros vertical statue as in the archaic style of earlier Greek sculpture until the ephebos Ephebe statue of Kritios ca. 480 BC. Contrapposto can be clearly seen i ... more details
Polyclitean canon Image Diadoumenos Atenas.jpg thumb upright The Athens example, with the quiver in view. National Archaeological Museum of Athens Image Diadumenos pushkin.jpg thumb upright Reconstruction, in a patinated cast at the Pushkin Museum , Moscow The Diadumenos diadem bearer , together with the Doryphoros and Discophoros , are the three most famous figural types of the sculptor Polyclitus sculptor Polyclitus , forming three basic patterns of Ancient Greek sculpture that all present strictly idealised representations of young male athletes in a convincingly naturalistic manner. The Diadumenos is the winner of an athletic contest at a games, still nude after the contest and lifting his arms to knot the diadem , a ribbon band that identifies the winner and which in the bronze original of about 420 BCE would have been represented by a ribbon of bronze. ref In Hellenistic times the diadem became a symbol of royalty in the Polyclitan Diadumenos , however, the action is still a simple tying on of the winner s headband. ref The figure stands in contrapposto with his weight on his right foot, his left knee slightly bent and his head inclined slightly to the right, self contained, seeming to be lost in thought. Phidias was credited with a statue of a victor at Olympia, Greece Olympia in the act of tying the fillet around his head besides Polyclitus, his successors Lysippos and Scopas also created figures of this kind. Roman copies Both Pliny s Natural History and Lucian s Philopseudes ref Pliny s Natural History , xxxiv.55f Philopseudes , 18, praising the Diadoumenos for its beauty ref described Ancient Rome Roman marbles of a Diadumenos copied from Greek originals in bronze , yet it was not recognized until 1878 ref Adolf Michaelis , 1878. Tre statue Policlitee , Annali dell Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica pp 5 30, noted in Haskell and Penny 1981 118, note 11. ref that the Roman marble from Vaison la Romaine Roman Vasio in the British Museum and two others ... more details
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