Lady of Auxerre

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(piano music) Voiceover: We're in the Louvre, and we're looking at an early Greek sculpture.발음듣기

It's really more of a figurine only about two feet tall, often refereed to as the Lady of Auxerre.발음듣기

That's because it was discovered in a storeroom in a museum in Auxeere early in the 20th century.발음듣기

Voiceover: It was made, likely, on the island of Crete, and we can tell that from the limestone that it was made from, and, also the similarities to other funerary statues that were found on Crete.발음듣기

So, we think it might have been placed in the necropolis, and in some ways it looks Egyptian.발음듣기

Voiceover: Well, this was a moment when the Greeks were just beginning their own artistic tradition, and were very far away from the naturalism of the 4th and 5th centuries.발음듣기

This is a period when Egypt is, in fact, an important source.발음듣기

Voiceover: We also see the influence of ancient [nuristan] sculpture in terms of the geometric pattern that we see on her skirt, and also the geometric patterning of her hair.발음듣기

Voiceover: In fact, the entire figure is not naturalistic at all.발음듣기

There's a patterning even of the forms of the body.발음듣기

So, that it's not so much a carefully rendered forearm, for instance, or hand that has been seen from a model, and then sculpted.발음듣기

So much as a series of, almost, symbolic forms that represent a hand.발음듣기

Voiceover: It's interesting because this is the renewal of stone sculpture in Greece in the 7th century, and we have those geometric forms, elongated legs and elongated fingers as well.발음듣기

Voiceover: Also, the hair is bundled up into those wonderful little squares, perhaps referencing braids, and of course, there's a complete jumble in terms of the proportion of the head, to the torso, to the hips, to the rest of the legs, but that's not it's concern at all.발음듣기

Voiceover: This is a representation Voiceover: using a very strict geometric structure.발음듣기

Voiceover: Interestingly, the arms are somewhat separated from the bodies, unlike what we see often in ancient the Egyptian art, where the arms are really wedded to the body with stone in-between.발음듣기

Her legs are a block of limestone and not separated at all.발음듣기

She seems very weighted to that small base that she's on.발음듣기

Voiceover: So, it's very seductive, the idea of reading her with full knowledge of what happens in Greek art after this.발음듣기

I'm saying that [unintelligible] stone that has been carved away freeing her arm is in a sense a first step towards the wonderfully [voluminous] sculpture that will characterize Greek art several centuries forward.발음듣기

Of course, the person who made this didn't know that.발음듣기

Voiceover: Also, I think it's important to remember that although we're not sure specifically of this sculptures context, a lot of our [unintelligible] sculpture Voiceover: Right. Absolutely.발음듣기

So, it's important to remember that religious context for these figures, even though we view them in a museum environment.발음듣기

Voiceover: I think it's probably worth pointing out that those geometric patterns that we see en-sized on the surface of the sculpture, were probably very brightly painted at one point. (piano music)발음듣기

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