This book tells about Perseus’s voyage to capture the head of Medusa. It all started when King Acrisius went to see the oracle of Delphi and learned that his daughter‚ Danae‚ would have a son who would someday kill him. The king locked Dana in a bronze chamber to keep her from having any offspring. However‚ the god Zues came to see her and then their son‚ Perseus‚ was born. The king placed them (Danae and Perseus) in a chest and cast them off to sea. They ended up landing on an island and were rescued
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CLASSICISM In the early 5th century Greek artists began consciously to attempt to render human and animal forms realistically. This entailed careful observation of the model as well as understanding the mechanics of anatomy - how a body adjusts to a pose which is not stiffly frontal but with the weight shifted to one side of the body‚ and how a body behaves in violent motion. The successors to the archaic kouroi‚ mainly athlete figures‚ are thus regularly shown ’at ease’‚ one leg relaxed‚ with a
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The Indus Valley Civilization Submitted by: Abeera Zavary Submitted to: Ma’am Samia Submitted on: 27th February 2013 Submitted as: Regular history of Textiles 2 report Contents Page No. Introduction I Location 2 Culture
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Etruscan Art (800 B.C. to 100 B.C.) Italian art history begins with the Etruscans. Etruscan Civilization was created on the now known Tuscany region of Italy. It isn’t known where they came from‚ but the character of their art and many distinctive features of their religion make it clear that the original Etruscans were from a region in Asia Minor. During the Iron Age (1000 to 1 B.C.)‚ urban civilization spread throughout Etruria - Tarquinia was probably the oldest city and is the most famous
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A comic book or comicbook‚[1] also called comic paper or comic magazine (often shortened to simply comic or comics) is a magazine made up of "comics" —narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes‚ often accompanied by dialog (usually in word balloons‚ emblematic of the comic book art form) as well as including brief descriptive prose. The first comic book appeared in the United States in 1933‚ reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips‚ which established many
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The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa on the central Anatolian plateau in the 18th century BCE. The Hittite Empire reached its height around 1285 BCE‚ encompassing a large part of Anatolia‚ north-western Syria about as far south as the mouth of the Litani River‚ and eastward into upper Mesopotamia. After c. 1180 BCE‚ the empire disintegrated into several independent
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contextual theories‚ Marxist Aesthetics and Danto’s theory of art will be used. In each section‚ “Eros Sleeping” will be discussed first‚ then “Composition V”. Formalism “Eros Sleeping” is a Greek statue from the Hellenistic period composed of a bronze figure on a marble surface. The piece weights 124.7 kg and is 41.9cm x 35.6 cm x 85.2 cm1. Eros is portrayed as an infant child‚ evident in the small stature of the figure‚ as well as the smooth curves used to define the limbs‚ torso‚ and face. These
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“Prehistorical” – human patterns before the invention of writing • Metal working was useful in farming and herding societies. 4‚000 BCE copper in the Middle East toolmakers (specialized job) would exchange tools for food from farmers. Around 3‚000 BCE bronze (copper + tin) and 1500 BCE for iron (which we live in today). • Neolithic Age – New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals were accomplished.
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Technology is started and it then explodes. Technology is the basis of daily life for most people in the 21st century. 5. Metallurgy is the process of combining copper and tin to make bronze. This created the Bronze age. During this time weapons and other tools were made of bronze. 6. During the Bronze age social hierarchy forms. People become powerful and wealthy‚ resulting in the first governments. 7. Western Civilization began in Greece. Western Civilization is based upon reason and
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de Weldon designed the massive sculpture which was based on the iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima‚ taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. (2) In 1951‚ Work commenced in 1951 on creating a cast bronze memorial based on the photo‚ with the figures 32 feet tall and the flagpole 60 feet long. The casting process‚ which required the work of experienced artisans‚ took nearly 3 years. The granite base of the memorial bears two inscriptions: (2) • "In
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