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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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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Ancient Egyptian and Greek statues have many similarities. Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude is an Egyptian statue from 1473-1458 BCE. It is almost 8 feet tall and almost 2.5 feet wide. It is made of granite and is a statue of Queen Hatshepsut‚ the wife of Tutmose III‚ one of the most dynamic egyptian kings of the eighteenth dynasty. The Marble Statue of a Kouros (youth) is an Archaic Greek statue from 590-680 BCE. It is a little over 6 feet tall and about 20 inches at its widest. It is the representation
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over Python. The sculpture called "The Cyrene apollo" Was made of the colossal marble‚ it was found in the temple of apollo at Cyrene in Libya with 121 broken pieces and reassembled in British museum. The sculpture is 2.29 metres high but without the right arm and the left wrist and hand. The right arm and left hand are both missing because its easily broken‚ most part of the statue was carved on one piece of marble‚ but only the right arm and the left wrist and hand attached separately. His upper
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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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