Metallurgy: The Bronze Age Metallurgy was first practiced in Asia Minor a little after 4000 B.C.E‚ afforded individuals greater control over nature by providing harder‚ more efficient tools and weapons. At first copper ore was taken from the surface‚ but metalsmiths mined and smelted various ores to produce bronze. The technology of bronze-casting spread from Mesopotamia throughout the ancient world. In India‚ advanced metalwork techniques were used to produce jewelry‚ musical instruments‚ horse
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Danny Caceres ART 201 Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Professor Applegate Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the largest art collections in the world. The museum also known as The Met is an enormous‚ marvelous architectural structure that takes up the entire block on 82nd street in Manhattan. The Met has around two billion art pieces stored and displayed in its art galleries. Entering inside‚ I recognized myself
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be discovered. It would go on to help yield one the earliest pieces of evidence of occupation. When the French first began their evacuations their findings showed the use of materials from the Bronze Age. Those materials included copper and tin axes‚ daggers‚ and more intricately woven baskets (“Bronze Age Materials” 1). Not only was this temple well known by the citizens of Greece‚ but was viewed as a very important part to the site in its own way. The temple was destroyed by a rock slide‚ the
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One of my favorite pieces of art that we have studied so far is the statue Kritios Boy. I am very intrigued by the background history of this statue. It is believed to have been created by the sculptor Kritios hence the name of the statue. The Kritios Boy is one of the first statues to focus on how a person actually stands. The term for this is contrapposto. According to Google‚ Contrapposto is an Italian word meaning counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure with most
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Conquistador In the movie The Last Conquistador‚ there is a controversy going on between John Houser‚ a sculpture who successfully attempted to create and mount the tallest bronze equestrian statue in the world‚ and people who funded the building of the statue and Native Americans living in Texas. The Native Americans don’t want the statue of a long-forgotten Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate‚ branded a terrorist and a genocidal architect by some‚ to be built. The Native Americans think that Juan de Oñate
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Cellini’s statue of ‘Perseus holding the Head of Medusa’ (Figure 1) and Parmigianino’s painting ‘Madonna of the long neck’ (Figure 2) are both prime examples of Mannerist art. The Mannerists sought to weave a refined‚ idealized and graceful visual style with arcane‚ complicated iconography to create artworks of complexity and elegance. This essay will discuss hoe both artists differ in technique and will demonstrate a contrast between the highly political significance of Cellini’s statue and Parmigianino’s
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follows: Kaganapan (1953)‚ Kiss of Judas (1955); The Transfiguration at the Eternal Garden Memorial Park (1979); Fredesvinda in Fort Canning‚ Singapore (1981); Nine Muses at the UP Faculty Center (1994); Sunburst at the Peninsula Manila Hotel (1994); the bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of National Library; Murals in Marble at the National Heroes Shrine‚ Mt. Samat‚ Bataan; 14 Stations of the Cross at the EDSA Shrine; Sandugo or Blood Compact shrine in Tagbilaran‚ Bohol. He also performed the death
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BCE.‚ tombs known as "hero’s" receive hundreds‚ even thousands of small figurines‚ with rudimentary figuration‚ generally representing characters with the raised arms‚ i.e. gods in apotheosis. Metal figurines Figurines made of metal‚ primarily bronze‚ are an extremely common find at early Greek sanctuaries like Olympia‚ where thousands of such objects‚ mostly depicting animals‚ have been found. They are
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musicians’ is a mosaic that depicts everyday people playing instruments. The Romans saw Greek statues as the most aesthetically pleasing item and they would soon copy the work. In doing so‚ they were preserving copies of Greek/Roman statues that might’ve crumbled with time. The ‘Colossal Bronze Hand of Constantine I’ has to be a prime example of the Romans own work. It was made out of marble then covered in bronze and only the head‚ hand and a few limbs survived‚ plus it’s about 2 meters high - separately
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body is represented. The Standing Figure was excavated from Sanxingdui‚ China in 1986. Art historians believe that this statue was made for decoration and to show off wealth‚ as it was buried along with other valuables such as elephant tusks and objects in gold‚ bronze‚ jade‚ and clay. It is of unknown identity‚ and it is very different in subject and style from the Shang statues. In contrast‚ the Snake Goddess was found at the Palace of Knossos. Some scholars believe that they represent mortal attendants
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