in 1820‚ the nude torso enabled her to be identified as Aphrodite‚ the Roman Venus‚ goddess of love and beauty. Her serene expression‚ high breasts and calm pose show the classical influences in Praxiteles’ style‚ but her elongated silhouette‚ position in space and very sensual‚ realistic nudity link this work to the Hellenistic period between 323 – 31 BC. Unlike the stoic posture of earlier classic pieces‚ the larger than life marble statue appears to be stepping forward‚ and as she moves her drape
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Apollonius of Rhodes (Author) Wrote The Argonautica. The myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis Aratus (Author) Wrote Phaenomena. A didactic (teaching something) poem about astronomy. Describes constellations and other celestial phenomena. Aristophanes (Author) wrote The Clouds‚ The Frogs‚ Lysistrata‚ old comedy‚ native Athenian‚ attacks politicians‚ harsh critic of various governments Aristoxenus (Author) music‚ science‚ wrote the Elements
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a Greek bronze statue of ca. 430 B.C. by Polykleitos; known as Fragments of a marble statue of Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head). It is a statue of a naked young robust man adorning his head with a diadem. The stone sculpture stands at about seventy three inches high. It’s about a size of an average man. It is a magnificent statue carved out of marble and very well replicated by an unknown Roman artist. Dated from the Flavian period‚ A.D. 69-96‚ the Roman marble sculpture of the
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The title ‘Pygmalion’ refers to the character from Greek Mythology with the same name. Pygmalion was a sculptor who hated women with a passion. However‚ when he created a beautiful statue of a woman made of ivory‚ he fell in love with it. He proceeded to pray to Aphrodite‚ the Greek Goddess of Love‚ to turn the statue to life‚ and the Goddess complied. Nevertheless the sub-title ‘A Romance’ is not appropriate because even though the first part of the Mythology can be paralleled with the play – where
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sized marble statue of Adam; the first human that God created. The statue was to become a monument guarding one side of the tomb of a high ranking official in Venice Italy. The statue has been moved to multiple cities‚ but it’s final resting place has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Carol Vogel reports that in 2002 the wooden pedestal holding up the statue broke‚ causing the marble statue to hit the ground and shatter into hundreds of pieces. The restoration of the statue lasted
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because it shows Greek’s first nude youth male during Archaic period on ca. 600 BCE. My piece of art is Marble statue of Kouros (male youth) which is characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side. This noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble statues from Archaic Greek‚ Attic. This statue was made with Naxian marble in ca. 590–580 b.c. Around 600 BCE the first monumental figure sculptures appear in Greece and depict
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art‚ the statue of Zeus and the statue of the Good Shepherd. Both statues are beautiful examples of the ideal image of their times. The first piece of art that I analyzed is the statue of Zeus. The larger than life bronze statue was created around 460BC that depicts the early religious beliefs in Gods. The statue of bronze differed from ones that came before it because it was not made of the normal marble that was used on most statues. The statue of Zeus couldn’t be made out of marble because of
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Another sculpture‚ which portrays the Greek concept for male beauty‚ was A Figure of a Naked Man‚ possibly Dionysus (Fig 2). As typical of Classical Greece‚ this is a nude male statue of another god‚ Dionysus‚ who was the god of wine and all things relating to wine (grape harvest). Unlike the previous sculpture of Aphrodite‚ there is not much motion in this piece (not very Hellenistic). Nevertheless‚ it still gives off a story‚ an aura. The man‚ Dionysus‚ seems to be very relaxed‚ which can be seen
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describe the same person: a massive man holding and resembling the features of a human but the strength and muscle definition of something greater and far mightier. The depiction of Hercules in an unknown sculptor’s Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules‚ an unknown sculptor’s Marble Statue of a Bearded Hercules‚ and Francisco de Zurbaran’s painting Hercules and Cerberus 1634 all combine to show the same half-god through muscle definition and facial appearance. The story of Hercules tells of a mortal
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or by ones that compete in the olympics. This head is made out of marble but is a copy of a Greek bronze statue. This statue was once a full scale life sized figure because it has a rectangular support in his curly hair. This suggests that his arm was maybe resting on his head . He looks to be very youthful from the perfection of his skin‚ idealized facial structure‚ and the tightly curled hair. Since this is an athlete‚ the statue was probably owned by an athlete‚ or maybe by whom it is representing
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