Plato and Aristotle Dialogue As I was at Plato’s Academy‚ I overhear an argument between Plato and Aristotle. The two were in an intensive argument over the theory of forms and the theory of knowledge. As I listened‚ I noticed that the two had extremely different viewpoints on the issues‚ but both men had compelling arguments. The first heated discussion was on the theory of knowledge. Plato’s views on knowledge were interesting to me. Plato believed that knowledge about reality comes from within
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being recognized‚ with each recognition earning him a better position in the Italian art world. Fast forwarding to the year 1411‚ Donatello had actually sculpted a marble figure called St Mark placed in Orsanmichele Church but once again serving as a representation of Florence’s powerful craft. Then again in 1415 he created the marble statue of a seated St. John the Evangelist for a cathedral in Florence. Each depicting his Gothic style and a classical technique as
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Pan‚ under the Late Classical period. This sculpture depicts Dionysus‚ the god of the grape harvest‚ winemaking and wine‚ together with Pan‚ his follower. It is sculpted from the finest marble which was created in the Roman period A.D. 50-150. Artists from this period of time drew a lot of attention to the statues’ expression of emotion and gesture form. The three dimensional perfect human body also contributed to the factor of determining the culture of the sculpture. It is said that there was a
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Polykleitos‚ a Greek sculptor from the mid-fifth century BCE‚ revolutionized the way sculptures were created thereafter by revealing a new way to look at the human figure. After receiving his education in Argos‚ a school in Greece (Kleiner‚ Mamiya 133)‚ Polykleitos entered a sculpting contest to create an Amazon for the temple of Artemis at Ephesos. Phidias‚ who was famed for his contribution to Greek sculpture‚ had also entered the contest and lost to his younger rival‚ Polykleitos. After this competition
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1646 to 1874 and still stands today. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon‚ which some stories indicate the Hanging Gardens towered hundreds of feet into the air‚ but archaeological explorations indicate a more modest‚ but still impressive‚ height. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia‚ the Greeks held one of their most important festivals‚ The Olympic Games‚ in honour of the King of
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Cult of the Virgin in the Gothic Era: Was there another side to the Virgin’s image? In the Gothic era‚ when it was popular for artist to create images and symbols of the Virgin Mary‚ began the Cult of the Virgin. Many artists focused on the Virgin Mary with Christ as the main topic in their art work. Did all the creations made of the Virgin portray her as good? Could some of the artists want to give a negative interpretation of the Virgin that could have only been seen through the artist’s eye
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J. Paul Getty Museum purchased about 10 million dollars on a supposed marble statue from the sixth century. The statue turned out to be obviously fake and those who inspect the statue in a few seconds were able to get the intuition that something was off. The book leads the readers into explaining the psychology of rapid unconscious thoughts. The idea that we alternate between unconscious and conscious was an interesting piece of information. Each thought process impacts different parts of the
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Erick Macedo Mrs. O’Kane English III (4) October 21‚ 2013 Irony and Symbolism Combined Poetry and short stories are a different type of literature yet they share similar elements that are portrayed in both. Most commonly they are setting‚ conflict‚ theme and tone. The Unknown Citizen‚ written by W.H Auden‚ is a poem that will be compared with the lottery‚ written by Shirley Jackson. Both‚ the short story and poem‚ share 2 literature devices in common. They exhibit Irony and symbolism within
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480 BCE. The statue is made of marble and is considerably smaller than a life-size human‚ standing at 1.17m. The torso of the sculpture was first found buried outside the Acropolis in 1866.The head was later found 23 years later. The bird droppings on the head indicate the statue at the time was kept outside rather than inside the Acropolis. With the Kritios Boy‚ the Greek artist has managed understand and show how the different parts of the body have their own role and shape. The statue supports its
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He begins creatively by utilizing Falconet’s statue; stating that it has “inactive sensitivities” and there isn’t much difference between a man and a statue; “Flesh can be made from marble‚ and marble from flesh.” (Diderot‚ ) By inactive sensitivities‚ Diderot means that the statue has the potential for the same sensitivities (feelings) man has but that they have simply not been activated. Using what d’Alembert
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