Parthenon Metopes발음듣기
Parthenon Metopes
So, triglyphs just mean sort of a mark of three and it's a little three lines. - A kind of ridges.발음듣기
Mhm, exactly. And in between, these squares with really deep relief carving, they're about five feet square.발음듣기
This is a story that would have been a kind of mythic story even for the fifth century Greeks, who were depicting them.발음듣기
Now, in the forest, were these creatures that were only sort of half human - the Centaurs, half human half horse.발음듣기
The gods at the top, then there were heroes, and heroes were the result of a union between a god and a human, and then, of course, there were humans themselves.발음듣기
And then, below that, there were these sub-humans or monsters, and the centaurs were certainly that.발음듣기
Nevertheless, the Lapiths were feeling extremely generous and really wanted to celebrate this wedding.발음듣기
So, what's being depicted is the Lapith women being made off with, and the Lapith males fighting with the Centaurs, who are really quite formidable - not only do they have six limbs, but you know they have all of the brute strength of a wild animal.발음듣기
You can just see his fingers wrapping around behind that neck, even though the neck and the head itself are gone.발음듣기
You can feel the tension of that body as it's being pulled back, and the strength of the Centaur - that's really trying to pull away and free himself.발음듣기
It looks, actually, like the Centaur is holding on with his right hand onto something, and struggling against being pulled by the Lapith.발음듣기
You have a couple of opposing arcs: the arc of the Lapith's body, and then the arc of the Centaur's as well.발음듣기
It's actually remarkable to me that more of this did not break off than did, because it's in such high relief it's almost freestanding.발음듣기
I also love the fact that those broad plains of the body are played against the more complex sort of backdrop of the cloth.발음듣기
Well, not only the artifice of the perfectly draped cloth in the background, but, how about, the artifice of the fact that we almost believe that a Centaur could exist.발음듣기
That's true. What's really striking to me is the way our eye is drawn to the anatomical structure of the Lapith's body.발음듣기
But there's also a kind of subtle distinction, which is that the tension that the artist has constructed because of the bowing of the Centaur's body is not seen in the exertion of the Lapith.발음듣기
In other words, look at the Lapith, even though he is exerting tremendous power to pull back this horse, the Centaur. - He's in control.발음듣기
And in fact, the body is almost relaxed, remains almost completely sort of perfectly noble and perfectly balanced, even within this battle.발음듣기
Look at the difference in the way that the Centaur and the Lapith's heads, their faces, are represented.발음듣기
And even as his neck is being crushed, even as he is being choked, there is a sense of rest and nobility, there is no anguish in that face whatsoever.발음듣기
In contrast, we have this gnarled, bearded, long-haired, older figure, with a kind of knit brow, a kind of wild open eye, and with a kind of broken nose, all of which is looking rough and pretty much not the kind of noble mien that the Greeks give themselves.발음듣기
It's almost as though the human has superhuman strength, and doesn't need to draw on the brute physicality that the Centaur has to draw on.발음듣기
They were noble and they were distinguishing themselves from the brutish barbarians beyond their borders.발음듣기
In fact, a lot of our historians look at this and say that the Lapiths are, in fact, the Greeks. Of course.발음듣기
And the Greeks themselves were looking towards for instance, the Persians, their great enemy, with real fear as barbarians, as kind of almost animals, as almost centaurs.발음듣기
And, in fact, this art really represents, through its balance, through its perfections, through this kind of idealism, that sense of control that was so important to the Greeks.발음듣기
It's no wonder that for so many hundreds of years after this, thousands of years, we have looked back to this moment as this sort of extraordinary, and precious, and rare moment.발음듣기
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