Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods.
Neo attic art.
The sosibios vase is a neo attic marble krater of the hellenistic period.
A flowering acanthus plant carved in low relief occupies one of the long sides while on the other in higher relief two female figures with billowing garments surmount a silenus herm.
Neo attic quick reference term coined by heinrich brunn in his geschichte der griechischen künstler stuttgart 1853 to designate sculptors of the 1st century bc to the 2nd century ad who added the epithet.
The 18th century arts movement known as neoclassicism represents both a reaction against the last phase of the baroque and perhaps more importantly a reflection of the burgeoning scientific interest in classical antiquity.
Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods.
A neo attic krater in the metropolitan museum of art round trip to hades in the eastern red medici vase returns to the uffizi floine the mantle dancer in enistic period glorification of a pair of rare palace size capodimonte vases athenian the tower of pisa and piazza dei miracoli.
Only the right knee and lower leg are visible.
The themes are drawn from the world of dionysus.
The body below is almost completely concealed beneath the voluminous toga.
Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods.
The veiled head is separately made no doubt by a greek and is an example of neo attic sculpture at its warmest as can be seen in the subtle modulations of the surface.
A fine example of classicizing art this marble pillar bears on all four sides reliefs in the neo attic style.