The year 1913 a wonderful bronze sculpture of a mermaid was created in Langeline‚ Copenhagen. Edvard Eriksen made this magnificent sculpture as a request to Carl Jacobsen‚ because he wanted to give something to the people of Copenhagen. Edvard made the statue renaissance. In 1909‚ Carl Jacobsen founder of Carl’s berg beer attended Hans Becks and Fini He4nriques ballet The Little Mermaid. Which is based on Hans Christian fairy tale by the same name. Deeply impressed‚ Carl Jacobsen asked Danish
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Comparison of the Davids The statues of David by Michelangelo‚ Donatello‚ Bernini and Verrocchio were representations of a biblical hero the king David of Israel‚ who at a young age killed a warrior Goliath armed with only a stone and a swirl. The four statues are different from each other because they were from different periods and were made from different materials. Each statue is different because of the body posture and clothing choices. All the four statues were made in Italy and that is
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Yosmery Perez Art History 11 3:00pm-5:50pm‚ Prof. Choi November 10‚ 2014 Ancient Greek Standing female figure wearing a strap and a necklace Period: Early–Middle Bronze Age Date: 3rd–2nd millennium B.C. Geography: Southwestern Arabia Culture: Greek Medium: Sandstone‚ quartzite Dimensions: H. 27 cm‚ W. 14.3 cm‚ D. 14.3 cm Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: Purchase‚ Fletcher‚ Louis V. Bell‚ and Rogers Funds‚ and The Tokyo Shimbun
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material? Discuss with reference either to human remains or archaeological artefacts. The issue of the repatriation of cultural material is a very topical one‚ with this year seeing a statue of Aphrodite being returned to Sicily by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles‚ the Boston Museum of Fine Arts re-uniting the statue of the “Weary Herakles” to Turkey (see fig 1 below)‚ the Minneapolis Institute of Arts sending back a Greek krater showing a Dionysian procession to Puglia‚ Italy‚ and Berlin’s Pergamon
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at giving their statues a lifelike‚ considerable presence. They observed human bodies more attentively and copied them more faithfully‚ leading eventually to a style we know as naturalism. The main reason for this was because most of their statues were of their gods. The more believable the statue was the more present to believers the deity seemed. Ever sanctuary had a god or goddess in it. On such statue is Kroisos 530 BC Archaic Period Marble 6’4 grave in Anavysos kouros statue much more naturalistic
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would require the viewers to walk around this statuette as well to be able to see the extent of the action‚ the wings and to completely view the dolphin. The material used to produce this sculpture was Brass‚ which is a material that is similar to bronze‚ they both contain a copper alloy and have to be
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Between 130 and 100 B.C This is a statue of Aphrodite de Milos (Venus De Milo) that is believed to have been by Alexander of Antioch due to the plinth missing they cannot be certain. The statue is regarded as the most beautiful model of a woman’s body (Bermosa 2008‚ Para 2). The sculpture is a little bigger than life size‚ it stands 203 cm high and is currently at the Louvre Museum in Paris. This statue was created in the Hellenistic period‚ but the form of the statue. Some have said that the sculpture
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Berlin. The base of the column is quadrangular‚ each vertex having a bronze sculpture symbolizing Law‚ War‚ Justice and Peace. Originally there were nine steps leading to the base‚ but due to the sinking of the ground fourteen more steps were added. On the main face of the base‚ which faces downtown Mexico City‚ there is the following inscription: "The Nation to the Heroes of Independence". In front of this inscription is a bronze statue of a giant lion led by a child‚ representing strength and the innocence
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he received artistic training from a local goldsmith. Later in 1403‚ around the age of 17‚ Donatello apprenticed with Florence metal smith and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. A few years later‚ Donatello assisted Ghiberti to create the bronze doors for the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral. After working with Ghiberti; Donatello started his career by working with Brunelleschi. The two of them went to Rome and studied classical art. At the end of the trip‚ Donatello had a deep understanding
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The statue I chose is titled Apollo Belvedere. The sculpture is a reduced copy of a work most likely made by Leochales in 350-325BCE. The original Apollo Belvedere’s medium was marble‚ but the French copy utilizes bronze with a modern casting method. The statue features an adult male. The figure is relaxed‚ as the muscles remain are not flexed and there is no contortion of the face. There are no wrinkles on the male figures face‚ connoting a young subject. One can infer the figure is holding a bow
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