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    Augustus of Prima Porta In this paper for World Art class‚ I will be discussing the statue of Augustus of Prima Porta from three similar view points of authors‚ taken from art history books. Although they have there similar view points they also have there different ones and I will be discussing that as well. That statue was found in April of 1863 in Villa of Livia‚ near Rome. It was created around the first century dating at about 20 BCE. Today it is located in the Vatican Museum for everyone

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    Power In Ozymandias

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    The fact that the statue of Ozymandia is a “colossal wreck” (13)‚ “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone” (2)‚ clearly says that things do not last forever. But it does not only shows a statue that goes throw time and nature with some damages‚ but also the power‚ the ambitions and the pride that are transmitted through it‚ “those passions read/ Which yet

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    They started doing experiments after experiments to figure how they moved the statues on the island. Once they tried to make the statues ‘‘walk‚’’ and they chanted “heave-ho‚” and that ended up working because the statues were “Engineered to walk.” Another person tried moving them by putting the statues on flat boards‚ and then rolled them over circular logs. They could have moved the statues either way because they were both engineered to walk‚ but due to the deforestation‚ it could

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    THE SEVEN WONDERS [pic] PYRAMIDS OF GIZA [pic] HANGING GARDENS [pic] TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS [pic] STATUE OF ZEUS [pic] COLOSSUS [pic] LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA [pic] THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS [pic] The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was the tomb of king Mausolus. Halicarnassus (Modern Bodrum‚ Turkey) was the capital of a small Mediterranean kingdom. In 377 B.C.‚ Hecatomnus of Mylasa‚ the ruler of this land‚ died and left control of the kingdom to his son‚ Mausolus. Mausolus’

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    Fleeting power

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    Power is influence. Power is a virtue and power is a vice. In the poem entitled “Ozymandias‚” author Percy Shelley brings to life a tale of power and how it holds up‚ or fails to hold up‚ through time. The poem describes the wreckage of a stone statue built by a past ruler; “And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Ozymandias‚ King of Kings” (9-10). Through the following lines‚ “Look on my Works‚ ye Mighty‚ and despair!” (11)‚ it is clear that Ozymandias was a sort of conqueror. However

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    Art Commission Statement

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    Ten Commandments statue for the lobby of the new Christian and Jewish Interfaith Cultural and Historical Center. The commission statement will explain how the Ten Commandments statue represents developments in past and current world events and cultural patterns in Judaism and Christianity. We will discuss the importance of the proposed location and why it is appropriate being placed at that location. This commission statement will discuss our belief of how the Ten Commandments statue reflects the Jewish

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    people guarding the statue and ask them to rub them on the statue in anticipation of carrying some of that power away with them. The largest procession The procession of the Black Nazarene or is the largest procession in the country. It takes place on January the 9th and on Good Friday through the streets of Quiapo‚ a small part of metro Manila. The procession dates from the 17th century. Thousands of men parade through the streets with the life-sized‚ black wooden statue of Jesus (of Nazarene)

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    After viewing the statue of Memi and Sabu and the seated statue of Gudea‚ some similarities can definitely be found but digging deeper‚ other meanings are there as well. It was common in the fourth Dynasty for sculptures and statues to be made to honor the dead or to ensure that they are well known and remembered for future generations. Many different areas of the world practiced this and hence there are quite a few styles and materials used‚ as well as the overall meaning and purpose of its creation

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    Analysis: JFK Plaza

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    The Ben Franklin Parkway and merges it to City Hall. The plaza itself was designed in 1965 by city planners Vincent King and Edmund Bacon as a visitor’s center. The addition of the LOVE statue came later in 1976 as a symbol in celebration of the country’s Bicentennial commemoration[1]. Two years later the statue was removed from JFK Plaza; the same year‚ the chairmen of the Philadelphia

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    Comparison

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    Kim I have chosen two statues from different eras to make a comparison‚ Marble statue of Dionysos leaning on an Archaistic Female Figure from the Roman era and Bronze statue of Artemis and a deer from Greek or Roman‚ late Hellenistic or early Imperial periods. The reason why I have chosen these two objects are that both of them have one big figure and one small figure which makes eyes of viewers move around. They also depicted gods with smaller figures. These two statues have many differences as

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