Draping is the action of transforming the drapery into a three-dimensional form. The art of using the drapery as draping goes back to 3500 BCE, with the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians. Later on, the Greeks followed them and invented draped silhouettes as peplos, chiton, chlamys, and himation. Ancient Romans found the toga, which is a fabric that wraps and drapes around the body.
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| peplos |
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| chito |
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| chlampys |
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The traditional clothing style has reflected in Ancient Greek and Roman art pieces. Yet nudity was a costume used by artists to create a heroic moment and commonly the male body was used. Besides, in daily life men strode without their togas in the parties called symposia, where they would drink and eat, nudity was also allowed in the Olympic games. On the other hand, in wars being nude was considered suicidal, thus if you would go to the war with the naked body, you’ve got to be a really good fighter. This relation between being nude and dressed had a significant meaning throughout daily life; and in the artworks, the nudity indicates their courage, heroism, and existence via their bodies by draperies that are half-wrapped around the nude body, as they have just taken off their clothes.
This is a reminder of Jung’s symbolism of the dress as a representation of the persona, an indication through the feeling toward oneself. Taking off the drapery and depicting nude bodies in ancient Greek sculptures was signifying the sense of reaching to the ideal, the sacred persona; and this leads me to think that the drapery is gaining a meaning of the material self. I conceive that most of the draperies were depicted with the aesthetical conformism, as a part of the antique classicism, and the energetic feeling of the drapery was a signifying feature of the transmission of the life instinct, the desire to live, and the existence of the whole being as a material.
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