Harp Player, Early Cycladic period발음듣기
Harp Player, Early Cycladic period
(jazz piano) Voiceover: We're in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, and we're looking at a small sculpture of a man seated on a chair, playing a harp.발음듣기
Voiceover: There are only about 10 of these that have been discovered in the Cycladic Islands in the South Aegean.발음듣기
Voiceover: Mostly what we've found are tall, thin, highly abstracted female figures, and these have mostly been found in graves.발음듣기
Voiceover: We don't know a lot about these sculptures, and the reason for that is that perhaps only 10% of these figures have been recovered by modern archaeologists, in controlled conditions.발음듣기
The vast majority of these sculptures, male and female, have come to light on the art market.발음듣기
The result is we have no scientific archaeological records of where they were found, at what level they were found, so the chronology, etc., is almost impossible.발음듣기
We don't know anything about the context of the find, and in fact we'll never know, because that knowledge is just permanently lost.발음듣기
So not only do we have a problem with the archaeological record, but we also have a problem because these were so popular in the early 20th century.발음듣기
They were discovered by modern artists, and therefore we think many of them may have been created as forgeries.발음듣기
Voiceover: So the art market, we think, is awash with authentic objects that have been unearthed illegally, as well as forgeries, that is, objects that have been produced in the modern world, in order to look as if they were ancient.발음듣기
Voiceover: They're highly abstract, and they look that way to us in a way that is not really true to what they originally looked like.발음듣기
We know that areas of the sculptures were painted with very bright colors, and so this pristine white marble abstract form, that we so appreciate in the modern era, is not what the people of Crete were producing.발음듣기
It's tubular. The figure's head is back, as if perhaps he's singing, but of course we don't know.발음듣기
There is a little projection from that harp, which we think may be the head of a bird, perhaps a swan.발음듣기
Again, we really don't know. Whereas, the female figures are more frontal, more plainer, and they are incised in a way that accentuates the geometry of their bodies.발음듣기
There was a painted mouth. We initially see these as flat, but when we spend a moment looking at them, we see that the head is at one angle, the neck at another.발음듣기
Then it seems as if the thighs project outward, and the shins inward again, and then of course, we have the reverse with the feet, and so there is this almost slight accordion-like folding of the body.발음듣기
Voiceover: With later Greek sculptures we might think about Kouroi figures from the 7th century, much later and on the Greek mainland, there we see male figures nude and female figures clothed.발음듣기
That has led some art historians and archaeologists to speculate that maybe these are somehow related to neolithic fertility goddesses.발음듣기
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