Michelangelo’s Pieta is a marble‚ Renaissance sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling her dead son‚ the body of Christ. The intricate details of the marble Virgin Mary and the dead body of Christ‚ though an image of death‚ are brought to life by hammer and chisel. Through sculpture‚ viewers can experience emotionalism and spiritualism which in Pieta is expressed within the folds of the Virgin Mary’s robe. Although Mary has just suffered the greatest tragedy known to a mother‚ Michelangelo captures
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Art Analysis: Michelangelo’s “Pieta” and Constantin Brancusi’s “The Kiss” The definition of sculpture is the art of making two or three dimensional representative or abstract forms. Just like carving wood or by casting metal or plaster. The qualities of a successful sculpture would have to have a well constructed figure and emotion behind the actual figure. My two artworks i chose to compare and contrast was “The Kiss” by Constantin Brancusi and “Pieta” by Michelangelo. “The Kiss” by Constantin
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none represents the Renaissance better than the rest but I beg to differ. For many reasons‚ I believe the Pieta is the obvious choice. The Pieta was sculpted by Michelangelo and it depicts Mary holding Jesus after his death. During the creation of the Pieta‚ an emphasis was put on the anatomy‚ preciseness and the emotions created. Michaelangelo is arguably the wisest human
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The Book of the Dead and the Rottgen Pieta both represent the main themes of death and afterlife. The Book of the Dead is a manual for the afterlife and the Rottgen Pieta is meant to induce emotions. Although the Rottgen Pieta from Germany conveys death through its content‚ the Book of the Dead from Egypt represents what its culture thinks of death and the afterlife better than the Rottgen Pieta. To begin with‚ the Rottgen Pieta also known as Vesperbild‚ is from the middle Rhine Region‚ Germany
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epic tell‚ how they came to be. How the great Roman civilization came into power‚ through the hardship and trials of the Trojan people. Virgil speaks to his people through this text to build pietas or dutifulness in an attempt to mature the virtue of his people. He also provides several examples of not only pietas‚ but constantia or perseverance as well‚ both of which are the characteristic traits that he wants his civilization to develop and nurture in an attempt to better the society. Another great
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When you look at figure 18-23 Vesperbild (Pieta) and then figure 21-9 Pieta you see two different interpretations of the virgin marry holding a dead Jesus in her lap. However‚ there are some difference between these two religious three-dimensional sculptures. Let’s start with the medium used in these three-dimensional sculptures. With the Vesperbild (Pieta)‚ sculpture the medium used wood and polychromy‚ (PG 557). While on the other hand the Pieta sculpture was constructed out of marble‚ (PG 643-644)
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Pietas? Dharma? Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off! Written in 29 B.C.E. by the famous poet‚ Virgil‚ The Aeneid tells the legendary story of Aeneas‚ a Trojan warrior who travels to Italy to find a new home. As Aeneas makes his way across the ocean‚ he encounters a plethora of complications. In the face of all this adversity‚ Aeneas continues to exhibit the principal Roman virtue‚ pietas‚ which comprises the concepts of piety‚ public virtue‚ and duty. The idea of pietas bears an uncanny resemblance
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Rome Pietà and Crouching Boy by Michelangelo and Monument of Don Pedro of Toledo by Giovanni Nola. The sculptures are from the Renaissance era in Italy and all were sculpted in marble within 50 years of each other. Each has at least one main figure although the Monument of Don Pedro does not use a human figure as the focus of the sculpture. There as some unique similarities in the context of each of these works‚ since they could all be viewed as symbols of sadness and loss. The Pietà portrays
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Model Pietas‚ Latin for pious‚ is a fundamental trait found in Roman history and literature. Virgil’s inclusion of pietas in The Aeneid enables readers to appreciate an essential quality of any admirable Roman. Aeneas‚ the primary character‚ struggles with the implications of this central virtue; however‚ as he walks the paths the gods set for him‚ he personifies the essence of piety and thus portrays the quintessential Roman. An essential attribute in Roman history and literature‚ pietas is defined
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In ancient times‚ the Romans upheld values just like our society does today‚ standards that they cherished and celebrated. Among them were values of loyalty and duty‚ power and respect. Pietas and gravitas are two ideals are both quite evident in Stevens‚ the main character of the novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. In the preface to the Aeneid‚ Bernard Knox defines auctoritas as “the power and respect won by men of experience‚ of successful leadership in war and peace” (p.14‚ Aeneid)
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