Examples of pathos in the following topics:
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Money and Fashion: The Commissions of Roman Patrons
- Despite their Roman audience, these were purposely created in the Greek style and continued to display the drama, tension, and pathos commonly found in Hellenistic art.
- Similar to other examples of Hellenistic sculpture, the marble sculpture of Laocoön and his sons depicts a chiastic scene filled with drama, tension, and pathos.
- The composition is large and dramatic, and demands the viewer to encircle it in order to view and appreciate the narrative and pathos from all angles.
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Sculpture in the Hellenistic Period
- During this time, the rules of Classical art were pushed and abandoned in favor of new themes, genres, drama, and pathos that never before were explored by Greek artists.
- These figures interact with their audience in a new theatrical manner by eliciting an emotional reaction from their view, this is known as pathos.
- Despite their Roman audience, these were purposely created in the Greek style and continued to display the drama, tension, and pathos of Hellenistic art.
- Similar to other examples of Hellenistic sculpture, Laocoön and His Sons depicts a chiastic scene filled with drama, tension, and pathos.
- The composition is large and dramatic, and demands the viewer to encircle it in order to view and appreciate the narrative and pathos from all angles.
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Wood Sculpture
- His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery; it has been called "late Gothic Baroque".
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Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period
- The scenes he painted on his white-ground lekythoi are filled with pathos and sorrow, often depicting women sitting in front of grave stelae or bidding their battle-bound husbands farewell.
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Pergamon
- The diagonal line created by Gaia mimics the shape of her son, connecting the two figures through line and pathos.