Practice question · Put in order
Order these developments in Greek art.
- Archaic kouroi: rigid, frontal, Egyptian-influenced
- Polykleitos codifies proportion in the Canon
- The Parthenon and its optical refinements (447–432 BCE)
- Hellenistic drama and individual portraiture
- Kritios Boy shifts his weight (~480 BCE)
Hints
- The sequence runs from rigid to mobile to dramatic.
- Codification of proportion comes between the two.
Show the answer
- Archaic kouroi: rigid, frontal, Egyptian-influenced
- Kritios Boy shifts his weight (~480 BCE)
- Polykleitos codifies proportion in the Canon
- The Parthenon and its optical refinements (447–432 BCE)
- Hellenistic drama and individual portraiture
Why
Rigid, then standing, then codified, then perfected, then dramatized. The whole arc runs in roughly two centuries, one of the fastest revolutions in the history of images.
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