statue to hit the ground and shatter into hundreds of pieces. The restoration of the statue lasted more than a decade and the artists restoring the statue faced many challenges. The challenges faced in restoring Tullio Lombardo’s Adam were: the sculpture had broken into many pieces‚ many of which could not be salvaged‚ the pieces were extremely fragile and could not be
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second trip were the “Cleopatra” sculpture‚ and the world renowned “Perseus with a Head of Medusa”. The “Cleopatra” sculpture was quite a sensational one. It was carved by William Wetmore Story out of marble; spanning eleven years ‚ it was completed in 1869. The Boston bred sculptor’s masterpiece is in Gallery of American painting and sculpture of the Met. This beautiful sculpture is of the Egyptian queen ‚ born in 69 BC. Alike many of William Wetmore Story’s sculptures‚ Cleopatra is sitting down in
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art in Paris‚ the heart of the artistic world. A playboy to the core Picasso used his wild lifestyle as inspiration to his rather different approach to his artwork. Picasso was a painter‚ sculpture and basically a creator. He saw things in a totally different way then anyone else did. His drawings and sculptures portrayed objects and people in a cubism form of art. The objects or people were disorientated which depicted a type of mood or feeling or emotion in the drawing. The drawing I choose to recreate
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Jannet Reyes Arts 1301 Mr. Valenzuela October 4‚ 2011 “The Portrait” At the El Paso Museum of Art I saw many beautiful and wonderful paintings and sculptures but the “The Portrait” was the sculpture that caught my attention the most. “The Portrait” was sculpted by Frances Bagley an American artist born on April 7‚ 1946 in Fayetteville‚ Tennessee. Frances Bagley lives and works in Dallas‚ Texas. “The Portrait” was created in 1997 and it is made out of stainless steel and marble. I believe
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This paper will attempt to give a descriptive analysis and comparison of two medieval sculptures viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The first sculpture entitled‚ “Virgin and Child;” attributed to Claus de Werve‚ a Netherlandish sculptor by Pierre Quarre a curator and chief of Musees de Djon and a leading authority on Burgundian sculpture. Claus de Werve was commissioned by the Duke and Duchess of the town of Poligny to create this statue for the convent which was headed by a Francisean nun
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The sculpture of the Marble Statue of an Old Woman caught my attention instantly. This Roman copy of a Greek work depicted an elder woman that is less popular to be portrayed compared to depictions of youths. This is most likely because artists wanted to capture an eternal youthfulness of portraits. According to the description tag‚ the sculpture was actually a Roman (14-68 AD) copy of a Greek sculpture‚ dated to around the second century BCE. Marble Statue of an Old Woman‚ was a pentelic marble
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Michelangelo Michelangelo’s Pietá is his most beautiful piece of art in my eyes. I have never seen a sculpture with such intricate detail in my entire life. Michelangelo is famous for sculpting every muscle‚ tendon‚ and vein on the human body with unfathomable exactitude‚ as he does with the Pietá. The detail makes this sculpture beautiful because I have never seen anything like it. The sculpture almost looks too perfect. I cannot marvel how the hand of Michelangelo in such a short period of time
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In Donatello’s David‚ he is standing in a contrapposto pose as well. Even though Donatello’s sculpture was done far after the Greeks and Romans‚ it is believed that is was paying homage to the Greek and Roman styles. In Donatello’s bronze sculpture‚ it depicts a post battle scene of David and Goliath‚ with David standing on Goliath’s with one foot and holding Goliath’s sword in his right hand‚ and a stone in his left.
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PEST Analysis We are going to produce a PEST analysis to find out what external influences may be affecting the product (Milo) and to what extent to which customers decide to buy them. The purpose of the PEST analysis is to analyse the organization (Nestle Milo) operates and to identify how it may influence marketing decisions. A PEST analysis analyses the external environment in which an organization operates and identifies how it should influence marketing decisions. Political Factors The actions
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Janet Echelman is an artist who defies categorization. She creates sculptures at the scale of buildings that react to the environment for example‚ wind and light. The art she creates shifts from being an object you look at and becomes a living environment you can get lost in. Using unlikely materials like fishnet‚ “Echelman combines ancient craft with cutting-edge technology to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on four continents” (Frank). For example “Her Secret is Patience”
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