Greek Models

How did models who posed for statues of greek gods and champions achieve their physiques?

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They probably found a skinny ripped guy to see how muscles looked and exaggerated the fuck out of them for the statue

The artists didn't use a model. And when they did it was for limb/proportions and stuff like that.
Artists study anatomy.

They were exaggerated. And before any fucking retards say "WEYUL HOW DID DEY KNOW WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE:" we didn't "know" what dragons (which never existed) looked like. And that creepy giantess porn you see? Do you think they modeled that on real people? No. They are features seen in real life that have been exaggerated to logical extremes.

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>dragons (which never exsisted)
Kek.
This nigga doesn't know what a dinosaur is.

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They found the biggest most aesthetic guy they could and took measurements and then applied some mathematics to calculate the new sizes that only a god could achiev pre steroids. Sculptors would have all the ratios for say, chest to delt size memorized very early.

Giantess porn isn't that creepy lol

Found the fuckin weirdo.

Damn... Even the dog is shredded

they had gyms in ancient greece.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(ancient_Greece)

That statue is like 18th century at the very earliest.

> It was also a place for socializing and engaging in intellectual pursuits. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term gymnós meaning "naked".

>Athletes competed nude, a practice which was said to encourage aesthetic appreciation of the male body, and to be a tribute to the gods.

i was born in the wrong timeline

People in the past were all manlets so it was easy to look thick

>tfw the gym I go to has Greek statues in every corner.

Thats real motivation brahs. Seeing Greek statues around you while you workout.

Sometimes its nice to be Greek.

t. mehmet

>e a model. And when they did it was for limb/proportions and stuff like that.
>Artists study anatom

Why man? Join an exclusive gym club. In my club, celeberties workout amongst business owners and upper middle class or athletes. The entry price isn't your budget gym, but it gives you great service and it filters out a certain crown.

In the gym it's like a sanctuary: nobody talks and everyone is working hard to get a great physique. At the drink stand, there is some light chatting as it is mixed.

now, the sauna and steam bath, it's usually male only as women feel very soon uncomfortable. Men sit here, nude, and are always talking about business, philosophy, projects, politics and society.

The Ancient greek atmosphere is very well present there. And more often as not, the men have this greek physique as well.

these are not ancient greek
they are renaissance.

ancient greek sculptures were true to life.
probably posed by professional athletes, competitors in the greek games. they were the big celebrities of the day.

Fuck off

>How did models who posed for statues of greek gods and champions achieve their physiques?
most of them they exageratted it

Besides not paying your debnts (which is pathetic), Greeks seem like cool people. Your women are amazing and hardly any cultures can rival your history and tradition.

Being a big burly Greek man is like the ultimate Veeky Forums mode imo

The OP is even later, it's from 19th century. So it could conceivably even be of a strongman.

t. mehmet özeltürk
t. ex-pat mehmet (probably lives in germanistan)

another ancient greek statue

Thanks bro.

Heres the gym I'm talking about,

youtube.com/watch?v=35Bszd3seOk&t=29s

You can see the statues in some moments. It's a small gym, but there are no fuck arounds, only hardcore bodybuilders.

Why so angry with Greeks dude? Did a greek guy fucked your gf while she was in vacations on a Greek island? I've heard alot of stories of foreign tourist women coming into our islands and getting gangbanged by Greek guys.

and another
my fav
would smash (and then piece back together)

These are both classical, here's a couple archaic sculptures. The anatomy is a little fucked up, but still magnificent pieces.

A tribute to Equinox

go make me a kebab, you are not having a siesta are you? how will you pay denbts if you close up your kebab shop to drink ozu for 6 hours every day?

nope

You're right, it's 19th century actually.

These statues are stylised as fuck. Artists by that time had evolved into less realism and more idealized figures. Cause previous generations had mastered realism.

Everytime I see a Michelangelo sculpture
I think of comic book proportions

>>Drag a 7ft by 7ft slab of marble hundreds of miles.
>>Discuss project with the artist I patron (read, pay a retainer to so they can just make shit all day)
>>"I'd like you to shape this into a dude. Free the figure in the stone so we may revel in its beauty"
>> "I got you senpai"

Seriously, one of the most insidious thoughts to our understanding of history and our present situation is that we are somehow fundamentally better than or different from these ancient civilizations. If photographers today use photoshop, you can bet ancient sculptors weren't staying true to their model's physiques.

Also, don't forget that shit was brightly painted, so Athens and Rome probably looked more like circus circus than we'd care to admit.

Laocoön and His Sons is a copy from a Greek original

Would have looked nice desu. Also don't buy all of the historical "reconstructions". They're not done by artists and usually not authentic. They just make broad guesses of the colours from fragments and slap them on

take it easy my man, no need to insult people

>muh the were exaggerated because I say so
>muh they must've been exaggerated this isn't achievable at all !
You're the guy who cries "roids roids roids !" at anyone more ripped than yourself. These physiques are perfectly attainable, considering what greeks ad to do all day. They didn't have estrogen in the water, no plastic or any of the cancerous shit back then. Test levels were through the roof if I must add, they were manlets, and their "job" was to lift heavy shit and spar .their diets were good and not fucking starbucks you fat fuck.You're all just jelly and mad . 50 years from now your progeny(if you ever manage to get a girl pregnant) will look at arnold, sip on their fudge and claim the muscles are exaggerated. Only a disgusting filth would look at these and exclaim falseness.

They were manlets

>not venus callipyge

I don't buy that these guys could sculpt statues so perfect and then just slap flat colours on half of it. It was probably very realistically coloured. Ancient paintings that survived don't look like stick figures drawn by 8 years old, so they probably wouldn't paint well-made statues in such a garrish way.