Seer from the east pediment, Temple of Zeus. Marble. c. 470-455 BCE. Olympia, Greece.
The level of emotion on the seer's face would never be present in Archaic statues and it breaks the Early Classical Severe style, allowing the viewer to sense the forbidding events about to happen.
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