Winged Victory: The Nike of Samothrace
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Winged Victory: The Nike of Samothrace The Nike of Samothrace (fig. 1) Charles Champoiseau uncovered pieces of masterfully worked Parian marble in April of 1863.1 On Samothraki, the island from which Poseidon is said to have watched the fall of Troy, these segments of stone came together to form four main sections: a torso, a headless bust, a section of drapery, and a wing.2 The sections were shaped to be assembled though the use of cantilevering and metal dowels, allowing the sculptor to extend beyond medium’s gravitational limitations (fig. 2). Just one year later, the pieces were assembled (and those missing were remodeled), and the Greek goddess Nike was revealed at the Louvre. A Hellenistic masterpiece, she is caught at the very moment in which she alights on the prow of a warship. Right leg outstretched, her hips bend left and her shoulders twist back to the right, creating a beautiful sense of torsion through the contrapposto technique. Her massive wings are blown back by the speed of her flight and the ship, possibly in the moment just before she furls them. Damp from the spray of the sea, her tunic is plastered tightly around her body by the driving wind, held in place with two belts, one around her waist and the other beneath her breasts. A second piece of cloth called a himation has slipped from around her waist and streams out on either side behind her, blown tightly against her thighs. Both garments exhibit virtuoso handling of the drapery—the wet folds of the fine cloth can be felt by the viewer, cool in the misty gusts, and the transitions to where her skin can be seen underneath is flawless. She and the ship on which she stands were recessed into a niche in the stone around the outer r... ... middle of paper ... ...e Theogony. Trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Web. Internet Sacred Text Archive. 8 Nov. 2009 . Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Samuel G. Butler. Web. Project Gutenburg. 7 Nov. 2009 . Lahanas, Michael. “Art Produced in Pergamon (Pergamum).” Web. Hellenica. 8 Nov 2009 "Nike." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition 1. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 6, 2009). Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D. in 4 Volumes. Volume 1.Attica and Cornith, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1918. Ridgway, Brunilde S. Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles of ca. 200-100 B.C. Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
In this essay, the author
- Describes how champoiseau uncovered pieces of masterfully worked parian marble on samothraki, the island from which poseidon is said to have watched the fall of troy.
- Analyzes how the hellenistic masterpiece is caught at the very moment in which she alights on the prow of the warship. her tunic is plastered tightly around her body by the driving wind.
- Explains that the ship was recessed into a niche in stone around the outer rim of the amphitheater in the sanctuary on samothrace.
- Describes how champoiseau uncovered pieces of masterfully worked parian marble on samothraki, the island from which poseidon is said to have watched the fall of troy.
- Analyzes how the hellenistic masterpiece is caught at the very moment in which she alights on the prow of the warship. her tunic is plastered tightly around her body by the driving wind.
- Explains that the ship was recessed into a niche in stone around the outer rim of the amphitheater in the sanctuary on samothrace.
- Explains that nike is the daughter of the titan pallas and the river styx. she was born the personification of victory and strength.
- Opines that the nike of samothrace is not yet known what she held. nature made the beautiful and pale parian marble used to construct the goddess, and they also broke her apart.
- Explains the mystery surrounding the nike of samothrace is its origin. the quest for the answer to both of these questions provides an interesting insight into how we study history.
- Explains that historians use any and all information available to them when trying to date a piece of ancient art. there are difficulties dating the nike of samothrace.
- Explains that the nike was created to commemorate a rhodian naval victory over antiochos iii.
- Analyzes how ridgway definitively declares the inscription "has been completed as pythokritos," a rhodian sculptor.
- Explains that no sculptures made throughout the greek world during the hellenistic period bear comparison with the mastery of the drapery seen in the nike of samothrace.
- Compares the nike of samothrace to alkyoneous the giant of the pergamon altar. the nike is carved in the round, while the wings on the parthenon are shallow relief.
- Explains that nike is of no help determining either authorship or time of origin. multiple nikes in multiple media have been found in all over the greek world.
- Opines that the warship as a base is less commonly used conceit, as monuments in the shape of ships were quite common, but it was not, and was in fact, "relatively rare."
- Explains that scholars can list a range of dates for the nike of samothrace, or use the word that frustrates many historians—circa. the main opponent is time itself, that which scholars are trying so hard to understand.
- Cites astier, marie-bénédicte, "winged victory of samothrace." the louvre, n.d. web. project gutenburg.
- Analyzes bose, debopriya's nike of samothrace statue. the roman war of antiochus the great.
- Explains that hesiod, the theogony, homer's iliad and michael lahanas' "art produced in pergamon (pergamum)."
- Cites pausanias' description of greece with an english translation by w.h.s. jones in 4 volumes.
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