Hellenistic sculptors had other standards. In work of traditional character they kept the old impassivity‚ but where the aim was naturalistic or dramatic they enjoyed their virtuosity. Pain‚ fear‚ pleasure‚ amusement‚ drunkenness‚ lassitude‚ sleep and death were within
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important. One could say that they appear dead. This could resemble the mummies that are found deep within the temple. The statues were a replacement for the dead people. It is evident that when comparing the Egyptian and Greek sculpture that the Greek sculptors main concern was individuality as each figure in the pediment has a different expression that conveys a lot of emotion. Conveying emotion is a characteristic of the Hellenistic period in Greek sculpture. At the end of 400’s BCE‚ Greece‚ and specifically
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[pic] BONIFACIO MONUMENT Filipino sculptors came to be known in the middle of the 19th century. Classical Philippine sculpture reached its peak in the works of Guillermo Tolentino (1890-1976). His best known masterpiece is the Bonifacio Monument‚ which is a group sculpture composed of numerous figures massed around a central obelisk. The principal figure is Andres Bonifacio‚ leader of the revolution against Spain in 1896. Behind him stands Emilio Jacinto‚ the brains of the Katipunan. The Bonifacio
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Alex Contreras Art History February 13‚ 2013 Leonard Da Vinci is one of the greatest known artists in the Italian renaissance era. He was the father of the high renaissance. He has such great master pieces such as Mona Lisa‚ Madonna of the rocks‚ and The Last Supper. One of Leonardo’s greatest contributions to painting was his introduction of the idea of sfumato‚ which essentially means smoky‚ and is a way of producing atmospheric perspective in paintings. 1482 he moved to Milan‚ and began taking
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the ‘passions’ of Ozymandias that are ‘stamped on these lifeless things’ (line 7). What is the effect of the juxtaposition of ‘passions’ and ‘lifeless’? What is Shelley suggesting about human ambition? 2 The poem describes the work of the sculptor who was able to capture the king’s “passions” and give meaningful expression to the stone‚ an otherwise “lifeless thing.” In the poem there is also an element of human vanity where ambition creates achievements‚ but even great accomplishments
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Julius Caesar Multiple Choice Unit Test 1 Name_____________________________________ MULTIPLE CHOICE UNIT TEST 1 - Julius Caesar I. Matching/Identify _____ 1. Strato _____ 2. Lucilius _____ 3. Octavius _____ 4. Artemidorus _____ 5. Brutus _____ 6. Caesar _____ 7. Casca _____ 8. Calpurnia _____ 9. Mark Antony _____ 10. Portia _____ 11.Lepidus _____ 12. Decius _____ 13. Pindarus _____ 14. Cassius _____ 15. Soothsayer A. Captured by Antony’s soldiers‚ mistaken for Brutus B. Persuades Caesar to attend
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sculpture garden‚ I noticed one bronze sculpture in particular which held my attention and left a significant impression on me. This sculpture was Lunalilo by Deborah Butterfield. Deborah Butterfield is an American sculptor born in San Diego‚ CA‚ on May 7th‚ 1949 (artnet). This talented sculptor began her career in the 1970’s by sculpting
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demonstrate to the readers of his poem “Ozymandias” something more than just a run down work of art. Imagery is used to characterize Ozymandias – a sculptor of a king that was depicted as being cold and overambitious. Shelley uses the words that are written on the pedestal of the statue‚ and puts them together with the never ending sea of sand and the decaying sculptor itself. When these descriptions come together‚ the irony of the whole poem is revealed. An image of wear and tear goes through the reader’s
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The Archaic Greek period was between the 8th and 6th centuries B.C.E.‚ when what would later be leading characteristics of Greek art can be seen in their earliest form. Most sculptors of human beings we see that the body’s and faces are fairly abstract; as time evolved so did the tradition‚ sculptors aimed increasingly at giving their statues a lifelike‚ considerable presence. They observed human bodies more attentively and copied them more faithfully‚ leading eventually to a style we know as
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different from art created by white Americans because black artists should look to Africa for inspiration like the sculptor Richmond Barthé‚ an African American sculptor known for his many public works‚ which included the Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti and Sargent Claude Johnson‚ an African American‚ painter‚ potter‚ ceramist‚ printmaker‚ graphic artist‚ sculptor‚ and
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