Pyramus and Thisbe (SUMMARY) Pyramus and Thisbe are madly in love and live in houses next to each other. Their parents‚ however‚ forbid their romance and build a wall between the houses. The lovers find a chink in the wall through which they speak and kiss one another. One night they decide to run away together‚ meeting at the Tomb of Ninus. Pyramus arrives first‚ and she sees a terrifying tiger with blood on its mouth. She runs away in fear‚ dropping her cloak. The tiger tears up the cloak and bloodies
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date. Aphrodite de Milos (Venus De Milo) Alexander Antioch Between 130 and 100 B.C This is a statue of Aphrodite de Milos (Venus De Milo) that is believed to have been by Alexander of Antioch due to the plinth missing they cannot be certain. The statue is regarded as the most beautiful model of a woman’s body (Bermosa 2008‚ Para 2). The sculpture is a little bigger than life size‚ it stands 203 cm high and is currently at the Louvre Museum in Paris. This statue was created in the
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believed to resemble Aphrodite‚ the goddess of love. She is presented with a beautiful face‚ wavy pulled back hair and a draped cloth resting at the waist. Venus de Milo is filled with mystery due to her missing arms and where she was found. There are raised questions if Venus de Milo is Aphrodite or if she is the sea goddess‚ Amphitrite. The mysterious sculpture has raised this question. What was Venus de Milo once doing with her arms and is she the Greek goddess Aphrodite? There are several parts
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depressed so he turned to the arts and took up sculpting. He carved a statue out of ivory that was so exquisite and beautiful no living female could compare. Pygmalion fell in love with his statue and often laid hands upon her to reassure himself she was not real. He named her Galatea. At festival of Aphrodite Pygmalion stood by the altar and prayed “If you gods can give all things‚ may I have as my wife‚ one like the ivory maiden.” Aphrodite heard his pleas. When Pygmalion returned home he kissed Galatea
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compassion‚ and many others. The story of Io displays how the goddess Hera acts in envy after witnessing the infidelity of Zeus‚ forcing Io to undergo many life obstacles. Another tale that shows human qualities is when Aphrodite‚ who was touched by the deep affection towards the statue Galatea from the sculptor Pygmalion‚ gifted the carving life. Through the tales of Io and Pygmalion and Galatea‚ Hamilton portrays how
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birth to Aphrodite. Thus‚ Aphrodite was born solely from one of the great entities that existed before the Olympian gods.
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Alexandros de Antioquia‚ the sculptor of this piece‚ depicted the ideal of perfection through symmetry and natural form in each of the statue details. “Essentially‚ two blocks of marble‚ the statue is comprised of several parts which were sculpted separately (bust‚ legs‚ left arm and foot) then fixed with vertical pegs‚ a technique which was fairly common in the Greek world” (Astier). Ancient Marble was often chosen
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Hellenistic period. Hermes has a small head then the figures before‚ his body is also sensual and in a graceful loose-limb stance. The significance about this sculpture is the interaction and narrative shared between the two subjects. Praxiteles’ Aphrodite for The City Kindos‚ took the female figure out of drapery into the full nude‚ which during this time was a representation of a lower status. The narrative is of the goddess
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Another sculpture‚ which portrays the Greek concept for male beauty‚ was A Figure of a Naked Man‚ possibly Dionysus (Fig 2). As typical of Classical Greece‚ this is a nude male statue of another god‚ Dionysus‚ who was the god of wine and all things relating to wine (grape harvest). Unlike the previous sculpture of Aphrodite‚ there is not much motion in this piece (not very Hellenistic). Nevertheless‚ it still gives off a story‚ an aura. The man‚ Dionysus‚ seems to be very relaxed‚ which can be seen
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Charlene Melecio Art Appreciation 120 Sharon R. Zelevas June 25‚ 2011 Art of The Roman Empire Roman Art is a representational of their civilization‚ sophistication in sculpting‚ and of their very famous empire and their emperors. Although the Roman ’s improved sculpting many of their ideas came from the earlier Greek civilization that perfected the human anatomy. Romans used the foundation the Greeks had accomplished years before to improve sculpting and use it as a way to
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