Question
This 5th-century BCE text espoused a system of counterbalance in the body’s movement and tension known as chiastic balance. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this text. This now-lost aesthetic text drew on Pythagoras’s ratios for musical intervals in its guides for visual works.
ANSWER: canon of Polykleitos [or kanon]
[10m] Polykleitos is believed to have best demonstrated the proportions of his canon in this sculpture, sometimes itself called the Canon, which survives only in marble Roman copies. This sculpture of a warrior was an early example of contrapposto.
ANSWER: Doryphoros [or the Spear-Bearer]
[10e] Polykleitos was a contemporary of Phidias, who is remembered for his statue of Zeus at Olympia as well as his statues of Athena for this building, including a chrys·elephantine statue inside and the Athena Promachos that stood between it and the Propylaea (“PRAH-puh-lee-uh”).
ANSWER: the Parthenon
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