|
|
Part 1
Art is science made clear. Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science, Bernand Berenson, 1897 American art critic and writer ) The result was that the statue of Theagenes was dropped into the sea. Later the people of Thasos recovered the statue after a plague struck the island and after an advice of an Oracle. Greeks artists were probably the first who signed their work. Sculptures were very important for the Greeks. Pausanias in his description of Greece discusses a large number of sculptures that he found in various cities. A large number of marble sculptures have been destroyed by using these as building material after the early Byzantine Christian Emperors ordered the destruction of all pagan related sculptures. Some good examples survived as private pieces belonging to the upper class, such as the Aphrodite of Cnidus that was transported to Constantinople.
Encaustic method. A sculpture painter. 4th century BC
|
