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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time. The essay compares and contrasts these two art periods with respect to the major works created by prominent artists of these periods. In this regard‚ the masterpiece David‚ created by Michelangelo‚ has been compared with the Antonio Canova’s statue Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss. Both of these works reflect the artistic progression of their ages. David represents the renaissance art by reflecting the political situation of that time‚ whereas Psyche Revised by Cupid’s Kiss‚ depicts the artist’s
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place under the grandson of Cardinal Allesandro Farnese and during these excavations‚ the Farnese unearthed one of the largest collections of ancient Greek art up to this point. In this collection they found the colossal statue of the Farnese Herakles‚ separated into pieces. The statue originally was found with only the upper parts of the body‚ beginning with the
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Three-dimensional art such as statues or sculptures can be created with any type of media‚ portray different styles within the artwork‚ and represent a small portion of the lives they are portraying. We can learn a little about a people and their life through the representative art of their time. This essay will compare and contrast two sets of statues‚ namely‚ Memi and Sabu from Egypt with Gudea from Mesopotamia. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (n.d.)‚ statue is defined as “a three-dimensional
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compete in the olympics. This head is made out of marble but is a copy of a Greek bronze statue. This statue was once a full scale life sized figure because it has a rectangular support in his curly hair. This suggests that his arm was maybe resting on his head . He looks to be very youthful from the perfection of his skin‚ idealized facial structure‚ and the tightly curled hair. Since this is an athlete‚ the statue was probably owned by an athlete‚ or maybe by whom it is representing. We don’t know
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Babylon‚ near Baghdad‚ were a mountain-like series of planted terraces. (3) The Statue of Zeus was the central feature of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia‚ Greece. (4) The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Greece was a huge‚ elaborate temple to the goddess Artemis. (5) The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus‚ a monumental marble tomb in Asia Minor‚ exists only in fragmentary form today. (6) The Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze statue of the Greek sun god Helios erected at Rhodes harbour. (7) The Pharos of Alexandria
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about the fallen statue of Ozymandias‚ or Ramesses II. He was “the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty (1292-1186 BCE) who claimed to have won a decisive victory over the Hittites at The Battle of Kadesh and used this event to enhance his reputation as a great warrior” (Mark). Through the use of irony in this poem “Ozymandias”‚ the poet‚ Shelley not only reveals to the readers the pride of
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the Egyptian art. The characteristic features of the art of the Old Kingdom were derived almost exclusively from the works of the Bronze Age (4500-3000 B.C.). Made in that period‚ there were sculptures of animals that were the predecessors of the statues of Egyptian gods and goddesses in the shape of animals. There were terra-cotta figures of women--probably the slaves from the African tribes--which probably were to represent the Mother Goddesses. However the art of the Old Kingdom had much more to
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made of local stone. Stone was denser‚ white‚ a finer stone but also much heavier. Blocks of stone were cut at the quarry using wooden wedges‚ hammers and chisel pulleys. The parthenon’s main function was the house the statue of Athena that was create in 438 BC. The cella held the statue of Athena which meant it was an unusually
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (often called simply‚ the Seven Wonders of the World) is a list of man-made structures built during the classical era. Scholars believe that ancient historians began compiling the list in the second century B.C. The final list of the Seven Wonders that we currently reference was defined in the Middle Ages. The Great Pyramid at Giza Cairo‚ Egypt Noted for being the only surviving member of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World‚ the Great Pyramid is the largest
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