1. Parthenon Sculpture The Parthenon‚ or the Temple of Athena Perthenos‚ sits at the top of the Acropolis in Greece‚ dating 447-438 BCE‚ and can be viewed as an ideal Greek temple in the Doric design. Designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates‚ the proportions of the temple are considered perfect‚ and the Parthenon was decorated more extravagantly than any other Greek temple (Gardner‚ 70)‚ adorned with sculpture and friezes along both pediments‚ and all 92 Doric metopes‚ presenting many classic elements
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KINETIC SCULPTURE EVALUATION Ekin Kara KINETIC SCULPTURE EVALUATION TESTS TEST 1 Movement Test Procedure Blow Dryer‚Wind‚ Blowing‚ Touching‚ Fan Outcome When I used blow dryer‚ the only vane that turned was the one that was right in front of the blow dryer even though I increased the volume. But I think it happened because the blow dryer only focuses on one point so it doesn’t effect the other vanes. When I used the power of wind‚ I realized that the result was so much
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Assignment #1‚ Option 2: Sculpture of the Renaissance A time of extraordinary beauty in the field of art was the period known as High Renaissance. There was a growing trend towards realism‚ and artists of the time aspired to achieve beauty‚ harmony and naturalism in their work. These qualities began to revolve around a movement called humanism‚ which was a philosophical school of thought that attached more importance to humans and less to God. In this respect‚ sculpture became so incredibly lifelike
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Brennan English H 14 March 2013 Hercules: Half Human‚ Half God I. Biography When most people think of Hercules‚ they think of the Disney character‚ however‚ he is much more than that. Son of a god‚ Zeus‚ and a mortal‚ Alcmena‚ Hercules was half god and half human. He also had a twin‚ Iphicles (“Hercules”). He was born and raised with a mortal family in Thebes‚ an ancient Greek city. He had a wife‚ Megara‚ and some myths say up to 50 children (“Hercules”). His character traits consist of
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is The Hope Athena was carved using marble by the Romans at the School of Pheidias. This is a 2nd century copy after a Greek original of the late 5th century BC. The sculpture is located at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Hope Athena sculpture is simple to complex in the way that the statue was created to the display by the museum. There are many details that can be noticed when looking up closely from the head to the toes of the sculpture. The first detail is the head of Athena; the sculpture’s
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The oldest tower is the Tower of Hercules. This is not the towers Native name. This towers first name was Torre de Hercules. This tower is in Corunna‚ Galicia‚ Spain. This tower is 180 feet tall. This tower is an ancient Roman lighthouse and it is on a peninsula about 1.5 miles from the centre of A Coruna‚ Galicia‚ in the north-western Spain. Until the 20th Century‚ but this tower itself was know as the "Farum Brigantium. The word Farum is a Latin word and it is derived from the Greek pharaohs for
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during this labour he also held up the weight of the world‚ and then came the last task‚ he had to defeat Cerberus the three headed monster. All this he did‚ for forgiveness‚ to make good of his mistakes‚ forget his sorrows‚ he met happiness and after the tasks he was named‚ Hercules the Legend and defeater of the 12 Labors.
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Marble Statue of a youthful Hercules The piece of artwork I have chosen to best represent Bloomberg’s ban on oversized sugary drinks is the “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules”‚ which is on display in Gallery 162 in the Metropolitan Museum. The “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules” is a Roman stone sculpture that dates from around 69-96 A.D. during the Early imperial‚ Flavian period. “Restorations made during the early 17th century: head and neck‚ right arm below the shoulder‚ left arm
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Hercules For my research paper I chose to explore and analyze instances of the great Greek/Roman hero‚ Heracles (Hercules)‚ appearing in popular culture and the effect his myths had on early civilizations. Considered by most to be the greatest of the Greek folk heroes‚ Hercules was the embodiment of masculinity and physical power. The word “herculean” literally translates into “having enormous strength‚ courage‚ or size” (dictionary.com.) Since their inception‚ the myths and legends of Hercules
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that my voice is heard regarding the the new sculpture being placed in our city. With the implementation of the new sculpture‚ we‚ as a city are digging ourselves into an economic hole. One example of this is the Picasso sculpture in Chicago. With all that money spent very few civilians were in favor of the painting. Given the size of the population of our city in comparison to that of Chicago‚ even the slightest number of people in favor this sculpture in our city will not compensate for the money
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