respect by being the center for community functions. The Milan Cathedral has outer height of 215 ft and a maximum width of 302 ft allowing for a capacity of 40‚000. The huge building is made of brick and faced with famous Candoglia marble. The Candoglia‚ “pink” marble used to build the Milan Cathedral is still mined and exported throughout the world today. Both the gray and pink colors illuminate the structure. Facing the Milan Cathedral‚ the view is magnificant. Many spires atop it making them
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They thought of the gods as people‚ but bigger and more beautiful than any human being. The early Greek statues were stiff and flat‚ but that changed in the 6th century BC when the sculptors began to study the human body and work out its proportions. The Greeks wore no clothing when they practiced sports‚ and the sculptor could observe their beautiful‚ strong
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Kouros is a marble statue from an unknown artist. The 6’ 4” statue is from the Archaic Period in Greece‚ and currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City‚ New York. The representational‚ closed statue shows a naked man. His hair is a little longer than shoulder length‚ and has his arms at his side‚ fists clenched. His left foot is in front of the other. The entire statue is on a square marble base. This is a representational styled statue showing a Greek man roughly from 600
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The Temple of Athena Nike Greek Architecture is the most important and influential in Western history reaching a peak between 400 and 300 BC. Some examples of Ancient Greek architecture and sculptures were built primarily for religious purposes‚ to represent deities or to serve as temples‚ such as the Acropolis‚ the Parthenon‚ Erechtheum‚ Apollo Didyma‚ and the Temple of Athena Nike. The decision to build Athena Nike was an expression of Athens’ ambitions to defeat Sparta and become a world
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example of Donatello’s talent is demonstrated in his statue‚ St. Mark : the product of the artist’s ingenious merging of classical ideas with the tenets of the Renaissance and his keen ability to use optical correction (Artble‚ 2017). Accordingly‚ this paper will highlight the Italian Renaissance artist‚ Donatello and his work‚ St.
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Educational‚ Scientific‚ and Cultural Organization‚ 2012). In the design of this cathedral it is evident that the architect is influenced by the Christian religion‚ from the three archways representing the trinity and the middle archway adorned with a statue of Christ‚ it was built as a place of worship. These remarkable structures‚ each a piece of art‚ are both built with divine intentions‚ stand in stark contrast to each other‚ influenced by the culture of the age. Although both classic Greek and gothic
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Essays”. For the contextual theories‚ Marxist Aesthetics and Danto’s theory of art will be used. In each section‚ “Eros Sleeping” will be discussed first‚ then “Composition V”. Formalism “Eros Sleeping” is a Greek statue from the Hellenistic period composed of a bronze figure on a marble surface. The piece weights 124.7 kg and is 41.9cm x 35.6 cm x 85.2 cm1. Eros is portrayed as an infant child‚ evident in the small stature of the figure‚ as well as the smooth curves used to define the limbs‚ torso
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Bacchus is a marble sculpture approximately 72 ½ inches in height made in around 1497 by one of the High Renaissance masters‚ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. The sculpture itself shows two figures‚ a god and a faun or panisc: a half-man‚ half-goat figure in Greek culture. It is one of young Michelangelo’s earliest sculptures and it is arguably also one of his roughest. The figure‚ Bacchus‚ stands in a sway‚ an “s” curvature to his stance that is referred to as contrapposto. Contrapposto
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of the statue details. “Essentially‚ two blocks of marble‚ the statue is comprised of several parts which were sculpted separately (bust‚ legs‚ left arm and foot) then fixed with vertical pegs‚ a technique which was fairly common in the Greek world” (Astier). Ancient Marble was often chosen because it displays the luster and look of skin with smoothness and flawlessness. This Greek sculpture conveys a strong sense of realism‚ and the artist used resources and details to transform the marble into an
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WONDERS OF THE WORLD Many lists of wonders of the world are said to have existed during the Middle Ages‚ although it is unlikely that these lists originated at that time because the word medieval was not even invented until the Enlightenment-era‚ and the concept of a Middle Age did not become popular until the 16th century. Brewer’s refers to them as "later list[s]" suggesting the lists were created after the Middle Ages. Many of the structures on these lists were built much earlier than the
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