Discuss the Conventions That Ancient Artists Used to Differentiate Between

question 70

Essay

Discuss the conventions that ancient artists used to differentiate between male and female figures (for example,the way that the female acrobats in the Minoan Bull-Leapers fresco (3.1.7)have lighter skin than the males)using images from the textbook.Of these conventions,which are derived from purely physical differences between the sexes,and which might have been influenced by social or cultural expectations? What can these artworks tell us about the roles of ancient men and women? How successful were ancient artists at depicting the two sexes?

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