architectural sculpture and gilding. The basilica contains a large number of tombs of popes and other notable people‚ many of which are considered outstanding artworks. There are also a number of sculptures in niches and chapels‚ including Michelangelo’s Pieta. The central feature is a baldachin‚ or canopy over the Papal
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Introducion Birth‚ maternity and death‚ three concepts drawn and sculpted by the hands of Käthe Kollwitz in all her work. Pain can have a rare beauty‚ an adjacent romanticism‚ and this was something that Kollwitz could extract from the essence of her being. Observing her work‚ one can feel like doing a poetic journey that leads us to existential paradigms‚ where the ugly can be beautiful as well as black can be white‚ or where the sadness can be happiness. When i first sow her drawings during the
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for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man‚ alongside Leonardo da Vinci. * Sistine Chapel ceiling * Creation of Adam * The Last Judgment | * Doni Tondo * The Torment of Saint Anthony * The Conversion of Saul | * David * Pietà * Bacchus | Better known as just Raphael‚ an Italian architect and painter of the High Renaissance. He was best known for the perfection and grace in his artwork. Raphael was considered a master‚ among Leonardo da Vinci‚ and Michelangelo
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priest was short-lived. Due to his medical problems prevented him from delivering mass. He was driven to abandon his position as a priest soon after his ordination. At the age of twenty-five‚ he was became the master of violin at the Ospedale Della Pieta in Venice. He composed his major works over three decades. The Ospedale is a
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surrounding cultures. The Eumachia building‚ the largest building in the Forum‚ was almost certainly built after Roman colonization. Its porticus‚ marble doorway (which may or may not be original to the building)‚ and dedication to Concordia Augustus and Pietas show that the building may have been a show of dedication to the Roman Empire and its emperor Augustus by Eumachia and her family. Additionally‚ the city was organized into wards and social hierarchies in reflection of the Augustan restructuring of
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William Shakespeare Obituary William Shakespeare‚ 52‚ of Stratford-upon-Avon‚ Warwickshire‚ England‚ passed away on April 23‚ 1616. The funeral service will be held at Holy Trinity Church. William was born in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ Warwickshire‚ England between April 23-26‚ 1564. He graduated from King’s New School in Stratford and continued his life writing plays. William was married to Anne Hathaway on 27 November 1582; they were married 34 years. William was a playwright and director for the
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himself...odysseus is trying to get home to continue his life‚ it’s not really about anyone else. aeneas‚ on the other hand‚ has lost everything. his wife‚ his city‚ most of his friends and anchises shortly into the epic. aeneas is the representation of pietas‚ and his goal isn’t for personal gain or welfare‚ it’s for the divine conclusion that the fates and jupiter have ordained. aeneas reaps no benefit from his actions - they are purely for the gain of others‚ such as Iulus‚ and it advocates him as a
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the Roman pantheon and often given Roman names. Even the Jews‚ with their one god‚ were tolerated. For the Romans‚ religion was first and foremost a social activity that promoted unity and loyalty to the state‚ a religious attitude the Romans called pietas‚ or piety. Cicero wrote that if piety in the Roman sense were to disappear‚ social unity and justice would perish along with it. The Roman distaste for Christianity then‚ arose in large part from its sense that it was bad for society. The effect of
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Leonardo has had a huge influence on modern art throughout history and even to this day. One of his famous works is a sculpture by the name of The Pieta. The sculpture depicts Mary holding her dead. son Jesus. This was a great influence because it was very rare to sculpt something with two figures in it (Michelangelo’s). Some people say that The Pieta helped launch his career. He then made probably one of the most famous sculptures of all time the David. He took a biblical figure David and made a
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the painting to its bare essentials in which the artist created a powerful and moving image with a tragic solemnity of the Pieta. A gruesome subject to depict. The artist has commorated an event. Created a portrait of a martyr. A dying man in a graceful and heroic pose against a stark setting. In his hand he holds a bloody note. This reminds us of Michelangelo’s Pieta. Three quarters of the gray-brown bathtub is covered by a wooden board. The background‚ shades of gray‚ is entirely bare.
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