Word: archaism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question which the lecturer in tended to answer was what influences brought about the sudden and phenomenal advance in Greek sculpture between 520 and 360 B. C.; how it came about that the fetters of conventional archaism were broken through and room given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition...
...nationalization of the Greek religion, which men like Peisistratos brought about, the increased prominence of national politics, and the reaction in the mother country of the more unconventional lines of art pursued in the colonies, did much toward freeing Greek sculpture from the bonds of crude conventionalism and orthodox archaism...