Strict style
In Classical Archeology, the strict style is an art-historical transition period from the late Archaic to the early Classical period from around 490 / 480–460 / 450 BC. The sculpture preserved from this period shows features such as the evenly curled hump at the hairline, and in some cases a so-called archaic smile , which still refers to the archaic. The stronger formation of naturalistic body proportions, in turn, points to the new style epoch, the classic, in which the pattern of the kore or kouro is abandoned. The strict axial symmetry or frontality that is characteristic of archaic sculpture, as can be seen in the so-called Sunion-Kouros , is abandoned in favor of a freer and more moving representation of the body. In this time belong z. B. the so-called Kritios boy , who was probably created by the sculptor of the same name from Athens , and Apollo of Olympia . Well that was ponderation developed.
The group of tyrannicide by the sculptors Kritios and Nesiotes also belongs to this transitional period. These emerged only a little later than the aforementioned Kritios boy. However, late archaic elements can still be clearly seen in the hair design. The posture of the sitter, on the other hand, which has nothing archaic about it, as can still be seen in the Apollo of Olympia, undoubtedly means that it is more of the early classical and less of the late archaic. The bronze statue known as the “ Charioteer of Delphi ” is also at the same time . This, in turn, is one of the few bronze statues that have survived in the original. We only know most of them through Roman marble copies. In general, this is the heyday of the ore foundry. Even if the schematic design of the head shape is broken through step by step, we do not yet see any real portrait-like features. The oldest face that can be viewed as a portrait in the narrower sense is the Themistocles herm of Ostia . Only a few of the Attic marble originals of the strict style have survived, including the votive stele of a self-crowning youth .
literature
- Ludger Alscher: Greek sculpture . Volume 2. Part 1. Archaic and the change to classical . Berlin 1961