Peplos Kore from the Acropolis

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Peplos Kore from the Acropolis발음듣기

Voiceover: We're looking at a figure known as the Peplos Kore in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.발음듣기

Now this is one of the funny things that happens in art history.발음듣기

Things get named based on original thoughts about something.발음듣기

But then when later research is done that name doesn't really work anymore.발음듣기

Voiceover: But we keep the name because everybody knows it by that name.발음듣기

Voiceover: Exactly Voiceover: So this is know as the Peplos Kore because we originally thought she was simply wearing a peplos which is an ancient Greek costume, a rectangle of cloth often linen that is pinned at the shoulders and then falls down.발음듣기

Voiceover: A kore is a type of figure that was found throughout ancient Greece.발음듣기

It's a female figure that's clothed and the counterpart to the male kouros who was nude.발음듣기

Voiceover: Kore simply means young woman in Greek.발음듣기

Voiceover: Both korai and kouroi were found in great numbers during the archaic period which is the period just before the classical.발음듣기

Voiceover: It's a small sculpture and it was found on the Acropolis.발음듣기

Voiceover: Korai figures were generally offerings to the goddess Athena brought interestingly in many cases by men.발음듣기

Voiceover: But recent research suggests that this may not be a representation of a young woman at all. This might be a goddess.발음듣기

Voiceover: This figure is clothed in a very unusual way.발음듣기

Voiceover: Among all of the sculptures of young women that were found on the Acropolis, this is the only one dressed in this way.발음듣기

Now art historians are actively arguing about what it is that she's wearing.발음듣기

Some still hold to the idea of the peplos.발음듣기

Some suggest that it is a ketan underneath the peplos.발음듣기

Some say that there's a cape above.발음듣기

So there's any number of possibilities.발음듣기

It has also been researched into the original coloration of the figure which helps us understand her costume.발음듣기

Voiceover: Because what she is wearing is so unusual and is similar to sculptures of goddesses, there is some conjecture recently, very carefully researched conjecture that this may in fact not be an offering which is what's true of most korai on the Acropolis.발음듣기

But that this is a goddess herself, perhaps Artemis or Athena.발음듣기

Voiceover: Well Artemis is really important.발음듣기

She was the goddess of the hunt.발음듣기

Voiceover: And she often carried a bow and arrow.발음듣기

And what's so frustrating about this sculpture is that we don't have what she was carrying which would settle once and for all a lot of questions about who she was.발음듣기

Voiceover: Well clearly she had her left arm straight out, bent at the elbow.발음듣기

Voiceover: Which was characteristic of most of the representations of these young women.발음듣기

Voiceover: But in this case we think she might have been holding a bow with her left hand and we can see in her right hand a fist which is drilled in such a way that it could easily have held an arrow and so she may well be Artemis, the goddess the Romans would later call Diana.발음듣기

Let's take a close look at the figure.발음듣기

We can see that there are a lot of holes crowning her head.발음듣기

She probably wore a metal diadem, a kind of metal crown with rays that would have come up which certainly suggests her divinity.발음듣기

Voiceover: And it wasn't unusual for these female figures to wear crowns or to wear other kinds of jewelry that were represented either in paint or as metal that was applied to the sculpture.발음듣기

Voice over: We can also see that there's a rod that rises right out of top of her head and some art historians have suggested that there might have been a crescent above the diadem.발음듣기

And as you said, we can see holes for bronze earrings which would have been there originally.발음듣기

Her face would have been more complexly painted.발음듣기

Only the red really survives but we think that there was likely some black around the eyes and around the eyebrows as well as red and perhaps some more subtle colors as well.발음듣기

Voiceover: The sculpture has indicated not only her breasts and her waist but also a subtle sense of her legs underneath that very heavy drapery.발음듣기

There's a little bit of a sense of movement in the figure.발음듣기

Voiceover: This is very much an archaic figure.발음듣기

Voiceover: She does wear that archaic smile.발음듣기

Voiceover: But we have to remember that that smile was not meant to be an expression of emotion of happiness but rather a symbol of well being.발음듣기

Voiceover: And that smile gives us the figure a sense of being transcendent, a sense of being ideal, of not engaging in the world of emotion and difficulty but somehow rising above all that and so that makes sense for a figure that was a goddess or a figure that represented ideal femininity.발음듣기

Voiceover: And I think that was probably really beautifully expressed when this sculpture was new and still brightly painted.발음듣기

We found traces of paint in the band at the bottom of the cloth that hangs down over her abdomen.발음듣기

And then in the front of her garment it seems to part just in the middle of her torso.발음듣기

Voiceover: We see representation of embroidery of decorative patterns and of animals.발음듣기

Voiceover: Right, we see sphinx. We see horses.발음듣기

There are representations of perhaps goats.발음듣기

All of which is visible only under special lighting and is no longer visible to the eye.발음듣기

Voiceover: And perhaps suggests fecundity or fertility. It's very difficult to know.발음듣기

Voiceover: What we do know is that she is one of the most exceptional figures from the archaic period.발음듣기

We're lucky she survived for all of these years.발음듣기

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