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Lysipp

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Kairos. Roman work after the original by Lysippos ca. 350-330 BC.  Turin, Museum of Antiquities  ( © www.iflebenskunde.de) I. Introduction  Lysipp was one of the most renown sculptors of the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic periods (4th-3rd centuries BC), establishing a new canon for the proportions of the human body. Distinguished on the same level as Praxiteles and Pheidias, he was from Sikyon and worked mainly on bronze. Lysipp has been the official sculptor of the Macedonian court under Alexander the Great. Although no original work of him has survived, it is considered that his oeuvre prepared the prominent " baroque style " of the hellenistic period.  Terme Boxer,  Palazzo Massimo alle Terme ,  Rome , Italy  ( © wikipedia.org) II. Sources for his work According to Pliny the Elder, Lysipp's flourishing period is placed during the 113th Olympiad, while other sources indicate that he had a long career ...
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Pergamon Altar

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Pergamonaltar, Detail Gigantenfries / Ostfries, Geometrierekonstruktion mit Oberflächentextur  © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Urheber: Fraunhofer IGD Zurück Vor The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου ) is a monumental construction built during the reign of king Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor. The structure is 35.64 metres wide and 33.4 metres deep; the front stairway alone is almost 20 metres wide. The base is decorated with a frieze in high relief showing the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods known as the Gigantomachy. There is a second, smaller and less well-preserved high relief frieze on the inner court walls which surround the actual fire altar on the upper level of the structure at the top of the stairs. In a set of consecutive scenes, it depicts events from the life of Telephus, legendary fou...
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BYZANTINE MUSIC- NOTATION SYSTEM. QUANTITY CHARACTERS

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In Byzantine music, there is a specific notation system. The signs are called characters, because each of them actually has its own "character". One is soft, the other is sharp, the other is flat etc. In short, it requires each of us to adjust our voice to the different characters, so i. e. a sharp note sounds differently than a flat. Before looking at the notes in detail, we must say that all of these signs, the so-called characters, are divided into 3 large groups, namely the  quantity ,  quality  and  time / metric characters . Each group has its own basic features, which is the common point of all the individual characters it contains, regardless of the differences between them. I. QUANTITY CHARACTERS  Imagine at first that you are on a scale, with many many steps. Each of these steps represents a note and has a different name; the names are (ascending) Ni Pa Vu Ga Di Ke Zo and are repeated over and over again.
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