The subject for my abstract is the statue of Zeus in Olympia. The statue was fashioned by Phidias and occupied half the width of the aisle of the large temple built to house it. "It seems that if Zeus were to stand up‚" the geographer Strabo said in the 1st century BC‚ "he would sunroof the temple.” The statue was a chryselephantine sculpture‚ made with ivory and gold panels on a wooden substructure. No copy in marble or bronze has lasted this long‚ though that can be recognized by only certain kinds
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Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 1700s in Western Europe. Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature‚ religion‚ culture‚ and philosophy that emerged in the United States of America in the 1800s. Romanticism emerged as a reaction to three important trends in the 1700s. One was the Age of Enlightenment‚ the idea that reason was all important. The Romantics believed that reason could only take you so far. To get a true understanding of
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In ancient Greece‚ Agrigento‚ Sicily used to be the Greek city of Akragas. It was known as one of the richest and the most famous of the Greek colonies. Sicily became wealthy in the 8th century BC due to Greek colonization . From the Southern Greek mainland many settlers colonized on the island. At the height of ancient Greece culture‚ Akragas was very prosperous with an estimated population of 300‚000. Sicily had many monumental temples than any other Mediterranean area due to this reason. The
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1. Dr. Calder’s motivations are to find the statue for an archaeological discovery and to give it to the government. He does not want Victor Parmalee to get ahold of the statue because he knows if he does‚ he will steal the statue from Greece and sale it and also not give Phaedra any profit. Dr. Calder does not want the important statue to end up in the wrong hands of Victor Pharmalee. He wants the country of Greece to hold claim to their ancient t culture such as the boy on the dolphin‚ he does
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India to support rural entrepreneurs to create food storage facilities MUMBAI (Commodity Online): To store the surplus agricultural produce and to minimise food loss‚ India government plans to support the rural entrepreneurs with bank loans to create small and mid-size warehousing facilities. This initiative by the government would be under the Private Entrepreneurs’ Guarantee Scheme (PEGS) and according to the scheme‚ India will create small and mid-size warehousing capacity of 153 lakh tons
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his first commissioned statue David‚ which was constructed out of marble. This work followed the popular gothic style during the Italian Renaissance. The statue represented the defiance of authority to the people of Florence. Over time‚ Donatello became stronger with his work and it showed through the emotions conveyed through his work. Donatello completed the St. Mark statue in 1413‚ that stands outside of Orsanmichele Church. The next year‚ Donatello completed the statue St. John the Evangelist
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Riace Bronzes (Statue A) This classical Greek sculpture is titled the Riace Bronzes. The Riace statues are two life-size bronze statues each weighing nearly a ton. Statue A which is depicted above is of a young warrior‚ while statue B which is not depicted is of an older warrior wearing a helmet. In this analysis I will be concentrating on Statue A. The sculptor of this statue remains unknown; however most experts attribute this statue to Polyclitus‚ an expert Greek sculptor
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published in 1888. The story talks about a statue that can talk and then asks a swallow to do tasks for him. It is a simple yet meaningful story; therefore‚ this essay will first be about the summary of the story then it will discuss the symbolism of the statue of the Happy Prince‚ next it will show the contribution of the statue in the story‚ and the last paragraph will be the reflection of the whole story. The story took place in a city where the statue of the happy prince‚ which was coated in gold
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believed that his statue‚ which he was proud of‚ will forever venerate him but now only the legs of the statue remain and its head‚ which was given much detail by the sculptor‚ is shattered and corrupted by time. Now‚ the statue of Ozymandias‚ which represented his pride and glory when it was still whole‚ lies alone‚ wrecked and destroyed‚ on the bare‚ wide desert. This poem is showing that Ozymandias‚ when his statue had just been built‚ believed that he was “king of kings” because the statue symbolized
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Apoxyomenos‚ an ancient bronze statue of an athlete scraping off oil and dust from his body after a competition‚ was found in 1996. by a Belgian tourist René Wouters‚ under the sea off the little island of Vele Orjulen close to Lošinj‚ a Croatian island. The statue was lying on a sandy seabed‚ stuck between two rocks‚ at a depth of approximately 45 m. Investigations suggest that it might be an original Greek statue dated back to the 4th century BC‚ or a Roman copy of this statue. Since only a few original
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