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Winged Victory - The Original Female Icon

The Winged Victory: The Original Female Icon

In many regions of the Mediterranean world during first century B.C., art began to take on a new design. Before the coming of the Romans and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the art of the ancient Greeks was taken to a whole new level. The often used classical ideas which always consisted of rationality, order and harmony was abandoned for a more dramatic, intense, human creation. Artists and sculptors of this time period, also called the Hellenistic Era, established that although they could sculpt gods and heroes, they also could create your normal every day human too. The way a viewer of Greek art could tell whether it was classical or Hellenistic was if it displayed emotion/motion or not.

The most famous and considered the finest Hellenistic Greek sculpture, Nike of Samothrace, represents the Greek passion for beauty, strength and power. I instantly became attracted to this very beautiful piece of artwork, because of it's sense of p


Nike (Victory) is the daughter of Pallas and Styx (daughter of Ocean) and is a sibling of Bia (Force), Zelos (Glory), and Cratos (Power). The idea behind the meanings of these particular names went into the development of the actual Nike Corporation adopting VICTORY as it's goddess.

Nike was created by a Rhodian sculptor between 220 and 190 B.C. Nike was discovered on the Aegean island of Samothrace in 1863 and immediately sent to the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it is displayed on the landing of the Daru Staircase.

There are trait's that the sculpture has that I feel make it very symbolic. Such as, the wings do not have any support and are free-standing. I think that the Greeks wanted to show that women could conquer with their own strength and needed no one. Nike's depiction of being "strong and heavy, yet agile and graceful" symbolizes that no matter what is thrown at a woman or how much burden she endures, she is victorious over all.



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