The sculpture Apoxyomenos is the first work of art that will be examined in this critical study. Apoxyomenos or The Scraper (fig 16-24) is a sculpture in-the-round carved from marble as a copy of a Greek sculpture originally cast in bronze. It is a three-dimensional depiction of an athlete taking off oil and dirt with a strigil, or scraper, while reliving the victory achieved. Also it is a graceful display of the human body and embodiment of the uplifted view of Greek and Roman athletes.
Apoxyomenos was masterfully carved by Lysippus, the court sculptor of Alexander the Great, and shows the deviation Lysippus had from the more prevalent proportions used by Polyclitus in Doryphoros (Fig 7-23) which entails each part of the body to be a common …show more content…
The proportions used for King Khafre are also altered like Apoxyomenos but King Khafre is altered to match the Egyptian style by fitting the figure onto a grid and having the ankles placed on the first horizontal line, the knee on the sixth the navel on thirteenth, elbows on the fourteenth, and the shoulders on the nineteenth. The purpose of this statue was to be an eternal image of King Khafre to be put into his funerary complex, a pyramid, along with all his other possessions and mummified body. The pyramid was a gargantuan and luxury home for the ka, the soul part of a human that stands for his/her personality. Each of the adornings of King Khafre such as the lions that make up his throne, his fake beard, clothing, and lotus are symbols representing his authority and of the country he reigns
Apoxyomenos was masterfully carved by Lysippus, the court sculptor of Alexander the Great, and shows the deviation Lysippus had from the more prevalent proportions used by Polyclitus in Doryphoros (Fig 7-23) which entails each part of the body to be a common …show more content…
The proportions used for King Khafre are also altered like Apoxyomenos but King Khafre is altered to match the Egyptian style by fitting the figure onto a grid and having the ankles placed on the first horizontal line, the knee on the sixth the navel on thirteenth, elbows on the fourteenth, and the shoulders on the nineteenth. The purpose of this statue was to be an eternal image of King Khafre to be put into his funerary complex, a pyramid, along with all his other possessions and mummified body. The pyramid was a gargantuan and luxury home for the ka, the soul part of a human that stands for his/her personality. Each of the adornings of King Khafre such as the lions that make up his throne, his fake beard, clothing, and lotus are symbols representing his authority and of the country he reigns