are known as in French La Pietà‚ and in Italian La Pitié‚ both meaning "The Pity”. Michelangelo: La Pieta #1 Carved from a single slab of Carrara marble‚ Michelangelo’s La Pieta is a really intimate image‚ which is an adaptation of the lamentation of Christ‚ his descent from the cross. There is an extraordinary relationship Michelangelo constructed between the body of the dead Christ and Mary. Since its creation before the birth of the 15th century‚ Michelangelo’s Pietà has inspired emotion‚ faith
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the Golden Age of Rome‚ Virgil. Virgil was requested to write the aeneid by Octvious because he wanted Virgil to write Rome a history. Virgil wrote a 12-book epic that tells a story about a love story about a queen named Queen Dido and a man named Aeneas. The main focus in Book IV of the Aeneid was Virgil gives specific details about why Aeneus has to leave Queen Dido right after they marry. On the other hand the play Medea was written by Euripides in 431 B.C. Medea was about a sorcerer named Medea
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19 BC THE AENEID by Virgil BOOK I Arms‚ and the man I sing‚ who‚ forc’d by fate‚ And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate‚ Expell’d and exil’d‚ left the Trojan shore. Long labors‚ both by sea and land‚ he bore‚ And in the doubtful war‚ before he won The Latian realm‚ and built the destin’d town; His banish’d gods restor’d to rites divine‚ And settled sure succession in his line‚ From whence the race of Alban fathers come‚ And the long glories of majestic Rome. O Muse! the causes
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for its achievements in painting‚ architecture‚ and sculpture to name a few. Pietà was created by the artist Michelangelo whose life time was 1475-1564. Michelangelo sculpted the well-known piece of work‚ the Pietà ‚prior to the age of thirty. In 1496 Michelangelo relocates to Rome where he completes one of his well-known pieces. Maybe he had the same conception as this was the only piece Michelangelo ever signed. Pietà is still located at St. Peter’s basilica in Vatican City. This elegant sculpture
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Kevin Asubonteng 04/15/2014 Short Objective Response Paper The marble statue of Aphrodite‚ which is also known as Venus Genetrix‚ is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is a Roman copy‚ which was created in the Imperial period‚ approximately between the first and the second century A.D. The original sculpture was Greek‚ made of bronze and is dated to the late fifth century B.C.E.‚ which is the Late Classical period. The museum approximates that its creator is Kallimachos
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At first glance‚ these two sculptures look identical. It is no coincidence that they have the same name. Pieta definition is “a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ‚ usually shown held on her lap (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pieta).” The sculptures are devotional pieces for any religion in which this scene pertains. The similarities between these two works of art are profound. They both show the overwhelming devastation of Mary’s face looking upon her
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Michelangelo’s Pieta is a marble‚ Renaissance sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling her dead son‚ the body of Christ. The intricate details of the marble Virgin Mary and the dead body of Christ‚ though an image of death‚ are brought to life by hammer and chisel. Through sculpture‚ viewers can experience emotionalism and spiritualism which in Pieta is expressed within the folds of the Virgin Mary’s robe. Although Mary has just suffered the greatest tragedy known to a mother‚ Michelangelo captures
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Gilgamesh and Aeneas Hero’s The principal factor in an epic is the heroic main character. Usually this character is often the son of a god or goddess and is favored by the gods. These heroic characters are surrounded by constant tragedy which helps drive them to fulfill their fates. All of these qualities of heroic characters are shown in the characters of Aeneas from “The Aeneid” and Gilgamesh from the “Epic of Gilgamesh”. In an article by Roma Chatter it is suggested that
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I. INTRODUCTION Today‚ faith‚ doubt‚ and prayer the afterlife and other religious are topics that is truly significant. How does one find faith? Rediscovering faith after the grieving process so whether starting from background of having practiced a religion and then fallen away‚ or whether pursuing the search for faith for the first time. The question becomes why should a person take time to read and learn about God? Dante’s epic masterpiece‚ The Divine Comedy‚ was probably begun about 1307; it
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The Pieta was commissioned in 1498 by Cardinal Jean de Bileres de Lagraulas as a funerary monument. Michelangelo had recently moved to Rome after the death of his mentor Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ and was a relatively undiscovered artist‚ being only in his early twenties. The Pieta’s commission gave Michelangelo widespread fame and recognition‚ and many scholars cite it as his finest work. (The History‚ 2016). The details and delicateness of the robes carved into the marble marks the work as truly remarkable
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