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    will go on to place each work in its respective context. Lastly‚ I will compare and contrast them. The British Museum currently houses the small bronze statue of Isis nursing Horus (see Addenda A figure 1)‚ which is a mere 22‚8cm in height and 14‚8cm in length (British Museum‚ n.d.). It dates back to the Late Egyptian Period‚ which falls in the timeframe after 600 BCE (British Museum‚ n.d.). Examining this artwork reveals a lot about the arrangement of the formal elements in the composition‚ as

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    The Elgin Marble

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    The Elgin Marble is a collection of ancient Greek stone sculpture and architecture. Lord Elgin was the first person who acquired in Athens in between 1801 to 1805. The temple was built for dedication to goddess Athena and it also represents the beginning of democracy. Lord Elgin carried out the work by acquiring 21 figures depicting battles and decoration of the Parthenon. He also acquired the treasures‚ architectural features and objects from other buildings. However‚ the Elgin Marble was illegally

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    The Doubletree by Hilton London - West End lodging is in a perfect world situated in London’s memorable Bloomsbury area‚ in the middle of Holborn and Russell Square underground stations. Doubletree by Hilton inn has conventional‚ memorable character‚ while as yet keeping up the majority of the cutting edge comforts of this day. The bar92 eatery gives visitors evening tea‚ night beverages‚ and full individually meals. The wellness focus is open for visitors who need to assuage stretch in the wake

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    found a mummy‚ sarcophagus‚ canopic urns and all the stuff that belonged to that pharaoh and that pyramid. I was so disappointed that someone had just took them away‚ to bring them who knows where. Years later I visited with my school the Egyptian Museum in Turin which has‚ in my opinion‚ one of the best Egyptian collections I have ever seen. But when I was there I felt so sad‚ I felt like a thief because that pieces were not from Turin and neither from Italy and then it didn’t look so good as it

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    The Thinker

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    com/artists/auguste_rodin/sculpture/the_thinker. 2013. Web. 18 Apr 2013. Columbia College. The Thinker‚ by Auguste Rodin‚ 1902. http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/content/thinker-auguste-rodin-1902. n.d. Web. 19 Apr 2013 Cédric Loire Chicago University. Smart Museum of Art. http://smartcollection.uchicago.edu/view/objects/asitem/230/11/title- asc?t:state:flow=dae62d24-54c3-436f-a7c2-bbc7b7c417e1. 2013. Web. 12 Apr 2013. Princeton Dante Project. Biography of Dante Alighieri. http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/biography

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    time as an Ottoman ambassador in Athens‚ Greece. He somehow convinced the Ottoman emperor to allow him to take the ancient art‚ beginning in 1805. The British government purchased the ancient artifacts from Lord Elgin and placed them in the British Museum‚ where they have remained since 1816. Currently‚ Greece’s government argues that the artifacts should be returned. Britain states that it is a bad idea due to the irreversible damage that

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    It was believed that the chain was created by the gods of wealth and that any man who possesses it will have great benefits in life. The chain was being exhibited at the national museum‚ where it was stolen in the early 90s and was never to be seen again. Different groups of men from different area around the world went in search of the golden chain. The men never came back from the journey of finding the golden chain so people began

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    The ensemble of Palace Square In front of us there is a view of Palace Square which is considered to be the city’s main square and gives an excellent example of how different architectural styles can be combined in a most elaborate and aesthetically pleasing way. On the northern side of the square stands the earliest and most celebrated building on the square‚ the picturesque Baroque Winter Palace of Russian tsars‚ which gave the square its name. It was built between 1754 and 1762 by Italian architect

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    them in the many modern art museums that are out there. There are over one hundred and sixty modern art museums. Each painting in the textbook has a caption that tells you the title and also where it can be found. This makes it so you can easily find these pieces online. I found the museum websites to be very useful. For example‚ on page 202 in the textbook‚ figure 9.27 has an oil painting from Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum‚ New York. Once you are on the museum website you search the artists

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    A Gap of Sky

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    A Gap of Sky ”A Gap of Sky” is a short story by Anna Hope. In this short story we follow the young girl‚ Ellie‚ who studies at UCL. Instead of doing homework and study‚ she likes to party and do drugs. She has been sent to London by her parents to study‚ but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do. She lives alone and is therefore supposed to be self-dependent which we clearly see she is not. She cannot control her use of drugs‚ she has not got any self-discipline

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