OCR A2 CLassical Civilisations Notes: Art and Architecture in the Greek World
Clear and concise revision notes that are easily accessible. In depth analysis of each metope which will be of great benefit for the exam. These notes helped me to obtain an A* in my final exam.
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
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