The purpose of this paper is to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art and write a reaction paper about art works at the museum based on my impressions about them. To begin‚ I will start by giving you a little of background information about this interesting museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. It opened on February 20‚ 1872 and was originally located at 681 on Fifth Avenue. Also known as “The Met”‚ the museum is located on the eastern
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The historic and iconic marble sculpture‚ Aphrodite of Knidos‚ sometimes referred to as Aphrodite of Cindus‚ was created by the sculptor Praxiteles. Not much is known about Praxiteles for sure as the only definite dates in relation to him are found at the base of a portrait statue where he inscribed “Praxiteles the Athenian made it” or are written by Pliny the Elder in his monumental work‚ Naturalis Historia (Encyclopedia of World Biography). This work places him during the 104th Olympiad‚ or roughly
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t has been observed‚ that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns‚ standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries‚ and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers with their own actual observation‚ may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves; for that alone is true antiquity * which embraces the antiquity of the world‚ and not that which would
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Art in other areas of the houses and in public buildings had differing purposes. The Vetii Brothers for example placed a statue of Priapus in the peristyle of their house (Fig 7). Here again the art acts in a different way: as he spouts water from his phallus he also guards the key passageway into the house and essentially wards away the Evil Eye . The concept here is that
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Caravaggio is similar in color and extensive shadowing to the other two pieces being discussed. They all seem kind of haunting to me‚ not a victorious looking celebration as some of the statues portray. Donatello David 1430-1440 Bronze 158 cm Bargello Donatello’s David is unlike Michelangelo’s statue in
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Marble Statue of the Diadoumenos Waqas Yaqoob Professor Vitali 12/8/2010 Art History 1 Marble statue of the Diadoumenos is a Roman statue by Polykleitos from the Flavian period‚ A.D. 69-96. Polykleitos was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early fourth century BC. Next to Phidias‚ Myron and Kresilas‚ he is considered the most important sculptor of Classical antiquity. He was of the school of Argos‚ a contemporary of Phidias and‚ in the opinion of the Greeks‚ his equal.
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and sarcophagus made out of red granite. 3. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia The god of gods to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. It was located in the ancient town of Olympia‚ about 150 km west of Athens‚ in Greece. The original temple housing the massive statue was constructed around 450 BC‚ designed by architect Libon. The statue itself was created by the Athenian sculptor Pheidias. Constructed out of ivory sections‚ the massive statue was 45 feet tall‚ holding victory in his right hand
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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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Gianlorenzo Bernini "Apollo and Daphne" The statue "Apollo and Daphne" was made by the artist Gianlorenzo Bernini‚ the statue was commisioned in 1622 by the Borghese family and was completed in 1625. The statue is roughly 243 cm tall and is located at the Galleria Borghese‚ Rome. Bernini was a Italian sculptor‚ architect and painter who lived from 1598 till 1680. At first he worked in the late Mannerist tradition but left this style and helped create a new style that had more emotional and psychological
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These proceedings were led by the paterfamilias or ‘father of the house’‚ who essentially acted as a priest within the home. Inside the lararium it could be any real kind of depiction of the god or gods being worshipped‚ including frescoes and small statues. Analysing this‚ it is evident that religion was part of everyday life‚ but not just in temples. It was on a more personal and intimate level‚ with the home occupants worshipping the gods most relevant to them. This ability to almost ‘pick and choose’
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