Museum Of Art Analysis
METROPOLOTIAN MUSUEM OF ART
Fatima Lundy
I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my mom and my sister. I didn’t quite enjoy it at first, but as I explored the museum more, I began to feel enlighten at the sight of the different forms of art. It was hard for me to choose just two pieces out of all the amazing sculptures and paintings in this museum. I finally made the decision to write about two different pieces, from two different cultures, time periods, and even mediums. The first piece I chose was a sculpture titled “Marble Statue of a wounded Amazon.” The second piece is a painting by Joos Van Cleave titled “The Last Judgment.” I found it difficult to decide which piece of Greek art I wanted to focus on. I took over sixty pictures of Greek art at the museum, and probably looked at even more. I wasn’t interested in writing about the various Athenian pots. The sculptures were nice, but most of them were broken. The sculptures that were complete was the hardest to choose from. There …show more content…
The original was made between 450-420 B.C. The description card goes on to say, “The original statue probably stood in the precinct of the great temple of Artemis at Ephesus, on the coast of Asia Minor, where the Amazons had legendary and cultic connections with the goddess.” This is a very important fact that deserves further analysis. Why did the Romans feel the need to copy this statue? What did the Amazons mean to the Ancient Romans? Erin W. Leal goes into great depth about this question in his article titled, “Roman Interpretations of the Amazons through Literature and Art.” In this article, he says, “Following the chaos and disharmony of the Roman Republic’s Civil Wars, the Amazon was a popular character in the Imperial age of Rome and was used to discuss the creation of identity for the Roman people, though that identity changed over time”
Fatima Lundy
I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my mom and my sister. I didn’t quite enjoy it at first, but as I explored the museum more, I began to feel enlighten at the sight of the different forms of art. It was hard for me to choose just two pieces out of all the amazing sculptures and paintings in this museum. I finally made the decision to write about two different pieces, from two different cultures, time periods, and even mediums. The first piece I chose was a sculpture titled “Marble Statue of a wounded Amazon.” The second piece is a painting by Joos Van Cleave titled “The Last Judgment.” I found it difficult to decide which piece of Greek art I wanted to focus on. I took over sixty pictures of Greek art at the museum, and probably looked at even more. I wasn’t interested in writing about the various Athenian pots. The sculptures were nice, but most of them were broken. The sculptures that were complete was the hardest to choose from. There …show more content…
The original was made between 450-420 B.C. The description card goes on to say, “The original statue probably stood in the precinct of the great temple of Artemis at Ephesus, on the coast of Asia Minor, where the Amazons had legendary and cultic connections with the goddess.” This is a very important fact that deserves further analysis. Why did the Romans feel the need to copy this statue? What did the Amazons mean to the Ancient Romans? Erin W. Leal goes into great depth about this question in his article titled, “Roman Interpretations of the Amazons through Literature and Art.” In this article, he says, “Following the chaos and disharmony of the Roman Republic’s Civil Wars, the Amazon was a popular character in the Imperial age of Rome and was used to discuss the creation of identity for the Roman people, though that identity changed over time”