imagine the rock in his hand as being the very one with which he brought down the giant. In Bernini’s statue‚ David has on some manner of clothing. It is not much more than a piece of cloth thrown over his private parts‚ but it still gives him some modesty‚ which is in keeping with the Baroque period. Something that makes Donatello’s David stand apart is the fact that he actually made TWO statues of David. The first was in 1408‚ and is made of marble. This marble representation is rather boring and
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Metropolitan Museum of Art before‚ I had never really taken the time to really look at the statues that they had displayed. I knew that this time around I had to take my time and I had to make sure I paid attention to art that the museum had to offer. What I was mainly looking for was some type of statue or art that alluded to what I had learned in mythology class. As I walked around I encountered at bronze statue of Eros sleeping. Cupid‚ Eros name‚ which most people call him‚ is a little boy and he
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great invention of his was the creation of the Colossus‚ or a statue of a horse. The duke of Milan tasked Da Vinci with creating the world’s largest horse. But his work including designing floats for special events. And also the design for the equestrian statue made of bronze in order to honor Francesco Sforza Being the daring man he was‚ he didn’t pass up the offer to construct a 24-foot bronze statue. The statue demanded 80 tons of bronze‚ and Da Vinci used previous experiences to create a whole new
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Herod ’s Feast‚ St. Louis of Toulouse‚ St. Peter‚ St‚ Anthony‚ and Equestrian ’s statue called Gattamelata‚ and Jeremiah. Most of his sculptures were Renaissance breakthroughs. Equestrian ’s statue called Gattamelata is the most proportional sculptures he ever created. In Donatello ’s Gothic style he would express ugliness to give the statue a life of its own. He used a powerful realism that gives the Equestrian ’s statue called Gattamelata a distinct look. The second period deals with the years between
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Seated Statue of Queen Hatshepsut ‚ white limestone (29.3.2)‚
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Aristotle One of the greatest thinkers of all time was Aristotle-322 BC‚ the Ancient Greek philosopher. He has practically influenced every area of present day thinking. His main focal points were the natural and social sciences. In Stagira‚ a town on the northwest coast of the Aegean Sea‚ in the year of 384 BC Aristotle was introduced to the world. He grew up a wealthy boy. His father was friends with the noble king of Macedonia‚ and as a young man he spent the majority of his time at the
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identify with 2 objects that I felt had the most interest to me. Found in the Colonnade and Dome room‚ I will compare and contrast the statue of Apollo Belvedere‚ a Greek god originally made from bronze and discovered in Rome in the late 15th century. The second is a statue of the Ephesian Diana‚ an Egyptian sculpture derived of marble. There are a number of statues replicating the pagan goddess‚ Artemis from Ephesus and can be found dating back to the first and second centuries AD. The one depicted
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pieces out of all the amazing sculptures and paintings in this museum. I finally made the decision to write about two different pieces‚ from two different cultures‚ time periods‚ and even mediums. The first piece I chose was a sculpture titled “Marble Statue of a wounded Amazon.” The second piece is a painting by Joos Van Cleave titled “The Last Judgment.” I found it difficult to decide which piece of Greek art I wanted to focus on. I took over sixty pictures of Greek art at the museum‚ and probably
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CLASSICISM In the early 5th century Greek artists began consciously to attempt to render human and animal forms realistically. This entailed careful observation of the model as well as understanding the mechanics of anatomy - how a body adjusts to a pose which is not stiffly frontal but with the weight shifted to one side of the body‚ and how a body behaves in violent motion. The successors to the archaic kouroi‚ mainly athlete figures‚ are thus regularly shown ’at ease’‚ one leg relaxed‚ with a
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Chapter 5-Art of Ancient Greece The ancient Greeks are known as a self aware people. No other culture in western civilization history was quite as introspective as the Greeks. They prided themselves as the most civilized society in the world. In fact the term “barbarian” basically meant non Greek. The development of Greek civilization rises from the ashes of the ancient Mycenaean and Minion cultures. From After the decline and eventual fall of the Mycenaean culture in 1100 BCE‚ the Aegean
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