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Author Métraux, Guy P. R

Title Sculptors and physicians in fifth-century Greece : a preliminary study / Guy P.R. Métraux
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 154 pages) : illustrations
Contents Greek Art, Medicine, and Natural Philosophy -- Statues and Texts -- Early Classical Statues -- Motion and Expression
Summary "During the early classical period Greek sculpture changed radically, becoming much more lifelike. At the same time physicians such as Hippocrates developed new ideas about human life and health, and philosophers rethought their attitudes about nature. Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece is an investigation of the interplay of sculptors, physicians, and philosophers at a time crucial to the development of classical art." "Exploring this interplay, Guy Metraux shows how the depiction of physiological processes gave statues and reliefs their animating force and how many medical and philosophical speculations about the body were derived from depictions in art. He examines works such as the Omphalos Apollo, the relief of the Girl with Doves from Paros, and the two recently discovered bronze warriors from Riace, paying particular attention to developments in the depiction of breathing, blood vessels, and facial expression, to attempts to show actual or potential motion, and to the invention of contrapposto (asymmetry of stance)."--Jacket
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-139)
Notes English
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Subject Sculpture, Greek.
Medicine and art -- Greece -- History
Anatomy, Artistic -- History
Medicine in the Arts
Anatomy, Artistic -- history
Sculpture -- history
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
Anatomy, Artistic
Medicine and art
Sculpture, Greek
Médecine dans art.
Anatomie artistique -- histoire -- Grèce.
Bildhauer
Arzt
Plastische kunst.
Anatomie.
Medische aspecten.
Sculpture grecque.
Médecine et art -- Histoire.
Médecine et art.
Greece
Greece
Griechenland Altertum
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95900145
ISBN 9780773565005
0773565000
1282857169
9781282857162
9786612857164
6612857161