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    Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Ancient Greek and Roman scholars wrote about these wonders of architecture beauty. Located around the Mediterranean and Middle East‚ the seven wonders were: Great Pyramid of Giza‚ Hanging Gardens of Babylon‚ Statue of Zeus at Olympia‚ Temple of Artemis at Ephesus‚ Mausoleum at Halicarnassus‚ Colossus of Rhodes‚ and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. This paper will review four of these wonders. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are thought to be series huge

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    centuries apart but have the same Greek interest of the human anatomy. However‚ because of the time difference‚ it is clear that the Spear Bearer is more advanced. The same idea goes to the marble grave Stele of a Little Girl (440 B.C.E) and the bronze statue of Eros Sleeping (1st century C.E). They share many similarities such as the Greek touch; conversely‚ they have their differences. The two sculptures‚ Stele of a Little Girl and Eros Sleeping‚ are two Greek sculptures that have survived throughout

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    1. Pastoralism- the practice of raising livestock 2. Bronze Metallurgy- the study of the chemicals of the metal Bronze 3. Iron Metallurgy- the study of the chemicals of the metal Iron 4. Nile- gives people fresh water and is a major source for Egypt. The yearly activity is that it floods the river valley and moist fertile land is left behind. The resource the Nile has is the floodplain full of fertile land 5. Cataract- an unnavigable stretch of rapids and waterfalls 6. Delta-

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    psychosomatic changes of the statues between the Archaic and Classical Period. In his book‚ The Emergence of Classical Style in Greek Sculpture‚ Neer explains that the appearance of Greek statue changes from a rigid and stationary pose with unrealistic body definition to natural movements and pose to portray the human body realistically (Neer 71). Additionally‚ Shift to a serious

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    City is the Statue of Liberty placed on the Liberty Island in the New York Harbour. This monument was built by the French architect Frederic Bartholdi and was originally located in the Luxembourg Gardens‚ the gardens of the French Senate. The French people gave the statue to the Americans as symbol of support for the American Revolution for independence. In the past when the only way to get to the American Lands was by sea‚ the first thing the people from the ships saw was the Statue of Liberty.

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    buildings at the 1876 fair‚ Memorial Hall is massive. Its footprint takes up an acre and a half. It is 365 by 210 feet‚ and 59 feet tall‚ with a 150-foot dome sitting on top. Below the building is a 12-foot deep basement. Perched atop the dome is a statue of Columbia standing 23 feet 6

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    of a bronze sculpture and a silver saucer. Bronze or silver in this case would be the material cause. However‚ objects can have more than one material cause. Take for example my laptop. It is made of wires‚ plastic‚ alloys and other materials. These things become the material cause of my laptop. His second cause was the efficient cause. To continue Aristotle’s sculpture idea this was the way in which the marble was moved from its state of potentiality to becoming the actual marble statue. A chisel

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    sculpture‚ and painting‚ however‚ are immediately recognizable as the ancestors of Western civilization‚ despite their debts to earlier art. A Greek temple reminds us of countless government buildings‚ banks‚ and college campuses; a Greek statue recalls countless statues of our own day; and a Greek coin is a little different from those we use today. This is neither coincidental nor inevitable. Western civilization has carefully constructed itself in the image of the Greek or the Roman worlds. For an art

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    Phidias’ work on Athena was marveled upon for centuries. Phidias’ colossal statue of Athena was housed in the Parthenon and was displayed the symbol of Athens. It is believed that the statue was damaged in several fires and eventually was burned beyond repair around the fifth century. The statue was believed to be of great stature and heavy in gold. “The sculpture was assembled on a wooden core‚ covered with shaped bronze plates covered in turn with removable gold plates‚ save for the ivory surfaces

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    little influence--or at least little direct influence--on the Egyptian art. The characteristic features of the art of the Old Kingdom were derived almost exclusively from the works of the Bronze Age (4500-3000 B.C.). Made in that period‚ there were sculptures of animals that were the predecessors of the statues of Egyptian gods and goddesses in the shape of animals. There were terra-cotta figures of women--probably the slaves from the African tribes--which probably were to represent the Mother Goddesses

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