Hellenistic Greek Sculpture (c.323-27 BCE) Venus de Milo (c.130-100 BCE) Louvre‚ Paris. For other forms of sculpture from the wider Aegean area‚ see the Art of Classical Antiquity (c.1000 BCE - 450 CE). Note: among the most famous items of Hellenistic Greek sculpture was the Colossus of Rhodes (292-280 BCE) - one of the Seven Wonders of the World‚ as compiled by the Greek poet Antipater of Sidon. The Hellenistic Styles The era of Hellenistic Art (323-27 BCE) occupied a time-span nearly as long
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Shakespeare found the story of Venus and Adonis in Ovid’s Metamorphoses‚ a poem in fifteen books that retells more than two hundred pagan myths of transformation. Velasco describes in her study‚ the fascination and popularity of mythology in the Elizabethan period. “Elizabethans were fascinated by stories about gods who loved‚ but could not pursue the loveliest object of their desire‚ without experiencing terrible transformations in doing so. These stories represented the natural way of expressing
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In life‚ selected pairs of things are meant to be different; black and white‚ but the most obvious twosome a human being can think of is‚ none other than‚ a man and a woman. And even our society fashioned a rule saying that a man should avoid doing girl things at all costs in the same way a woman should never ever touch man’s work even in their dreams. Sense of priorities‚ field of strengths‚ and attitude towards relationship are the three things that set the characteristics of men and women apart
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nude has come a long way since 24‚000 B.C.E. when a small‚ female figure was carved by our ancestors. Venus of Willendorf was a first step in a long history of artists‚ styles and conventions that brought us to what art critics named the first truly modern painting: Olympia. Great milestones were accomplished along the way: Praxitales’ Aphrodite was the first Greek female nude. The Sleeping Venus by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione"Giorgione‚ was the first female reclining nude in
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The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)- Renaissance Venus of Urbino (Titan)- Renaissance The Birth of Venus (Cabanel)- 19th Century Venus Fauvist-Cubist - 20th Century Mythology of Aphrodite/Venus The mythology of Venus lies within the roots of Neolithic Greece. Known as ‘Eurynome’‚ which translates to the “wide wandering one”‚ she was born of primal Chaos‚ dancing on the water. Eurynome transformed the North Wind into
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A. flat‚ static character--functions totally as a touchstone for Fidelman B. provides Fidelman’s first turn towards artistic epiphany IV. Bessie‚ his sister A. childhood memory brings about full epiphany V. Venus of Urbino A. aesthetic constant--she‚ as a painting‚ remains static B. Fidelman’s method of viewing her evolves‚ providing his epiphany VI. Relationship of female characters VII. Conclusion and restatement of thesis. Bernard
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One of these paintings was Titian’s Venus of Urbino‚ painted in 1538. It is a single person painting of a nude woman reclining on a bed. During Renaissance time‚ there was a clear split between public and private space‚ especially for people who had the means to commission personal portraits. Titian’s
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ornamentation d. expansion of open spaces Answer: b 4. Raphael learned at the elbow of a. Leonardo. b. Perugino. c. Fra Angelico. d. Michelangelo. Answer: b 5. Who were two important figures in Raphael’s School of Athens? a. David and Goliath b. Venus and Adonis c. Plato and Aristotle d. Alexander the Great and Socrates Answer: c 6. Which is NOT true of Leonardo da Vinci? a. He made anatomical drawings. b. He was an uomo universal. c. He wrote backwards. d. He made more paintings
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humanism and celebrated the human form. Women’s bodies were beautiful‚ flawless‚ and curvaceous with pale skin. His paintings reflected the real world. VENUS OF URBINO The artwork was created in the year 1538 in Florence‚ Italy. Titian used oil on canvas to create a wedding present for Guidobaldo 2 della Rovere’s (the Duke of Urbino) young bride. It originally was meant for a cassone‚ a decorated chest made for a wedding present. It became an instructive “model” for Giulia Varano‚ the duke’s
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1. Nayip Puente-N 2. Art History II‚ 1304‚ 12-Week Session 3. Essay #1 Section 1: DESCRIPTION Part 1 of The Videotape #3 entitled The Early Renaissance Italy; depicts the Masaccio’s Holy Trinity (1425-1427). This work of art is painted in fresco in the Dominican Church of Santa Maria Novella‚ in Florence‚ Italy. This is one of the first paintings to depict deep space‚ uses one-point linear perspective to create a “tromp l’oeil” (French for "deceive the eye" ) or an effect that fools the
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