Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World

Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic WorldJ. Paul Getty Museum

Fig. 1. Laocoon from the Hellenistic Laocoon Group. Image courtesy of Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi Fig. 2. Agonized monk, Vardak, Ghandhara. Image courtesy of Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi


Fig. 3. Pain-stricken layman, V&A Museum. Image courtesy of Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi

Fig. 4. Lamenting arahat, Mogao cave No.158. Image courtesy of Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi
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Fig. 5. Bronze Hellenistic statuette of a veiled and masked dancer (3rd–2nd century B.C.), MET Museum nr. 1972.118.95
The complex motion of this dancer is conveyed exclusively through the interaction of the body with several layers of dress. Over an undergarment that falls in deep folds and trails heavily, the figure wears a lightweight mantle, drawn tautly over her head and body by the pressure applied to it by her right arm, left hand, and right leg. Its substance is conveyed by the alternation of the tubular folds pushing through from below and the freely curling softness of the fringe. The woman's face is covered by the sheerest of veils, discernible at its edge below her hairline and at the cutouts for the eyes. Her extended right foot shows a laced slipper. This dancer has been convincingly identified as one of the professional entertainers, a combination of mime and dancer, for which the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria was famous in antiquity.https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features...
Η Πηνελόπη χαλάει το υφαντό της τη νύχτα. Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night, Dora Wheeler 1886

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