Found in the Colonnade and Dome room‚ I will compare and contrast the statue of Apollo Belvedere‚ a Greek god originally made from bronze and discovered in Rome in the late 15th century. The second is a statue of the Ephesian Diana‚ an Egyptian sculpture derived of marble. There are a number of statues replicating the pagan goddess‚ Artemis from Ephesus and can be found dating back to the first and second centuries AD. The one depicted above from the Soane museum dates back to 2nd century AD‚ and
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Journal entries Chapter 9-14 Art 100 Chapter 9 1. Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. 2. Instruments used include graphite pencils‚ pen and ink‚ inked brushes‚ wax color pencils‚ crayons‚ charcoal‚ chalk‚ pastels‚ various kinds of erasers‚ markers‚ styluses‚ and various metals. 3. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be called a draftsman or draughtsman. 4. A small amount of material is released onto
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body. He asked questions such as‚ where do we begin and where do we end? Gormley was an artist creating sculptures of the human body and placing them in various positions‚ and in random places. Gormley was nowhere near knowledgeable about his art but through his art he found a way to help people recognize the same questions he had. However‚ Antony did not stop there‚ these human body sculptures are not just some thrown together shapes. These bodies share the exact same body index as Gormley. They
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audiences. The opening artwork to the ‘Bronze’ exhibition is the Ancient Greek sculpture The Dancing Satyr. The fractured satyr is remarkably well preserved which allows for its dramatic affect audiences upon entering the exhibition. According to Curtis L.Carter’s essay on Sculpture (citied in Gaut and Lopes‚ 2005‚ p.639) it is suggested that ‘-Western philosophical aesthetics has given the art’ -of sculpture- ‘-relatively little attention’. For The Dancing Satyr to take centre stage at the
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Period of time (42‚000 – 8‚000 BCE) reaching to our contemporary artists of today. One of the most representing works to the Eclecticism period‚ a sculpture was titled “UGOLINO AND HIS SONS”. It was done in 1861 CE using Saint-Béat marble. It has a size of approximately (78.75 in. x 59 in. x 43.5 in.)‚ height to width to depth ratio. The sculpture was done by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux‚ a French sculptor and painter who was born in Valenciennes‚ Nord‚ and part of northern France in 1827. Carpeaux was
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wood did not create the highest standard of sculpture because it was knotty and fibrous which made it difficult to use. The wood was usually painted with bright colors; the body was most likely a reddish/brown color. Although most of this sculpture was preserved‚ the paint wore off long ago. His belt has his name and “Royal Carpenter” inscribed which suggested his occupation. It is possible that he was involved with making his own wooden statues. Sculptures based on royalty was made with hard stone
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statue to hit the ground and shatter into hundreds of pieces. The restoration of the statue lasted more than a decade and the artists restoring the statue faced many challenges. The challenges faced in restoring Tullio Lombardo’s Adam were: the sculpture had broken into many pieces‚ many of which could not be salvaged‚ the pieces were extremely fragile and could not be
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second trip were the “Cleopatra” sculpture‚ and the world renowned “Perseus with a Head of Medusa”. The “Cleopatra” sculpture was quite a sensational one. It was carved by William Wetmore Story out of marble; spanning eleven years ‚ it was completed in 1869. The Boston bred sculptor’s masterpiece is in Gallery of American painting and sculpture of the Met. This beautiful sculpture is of the Egyptian queen ‚ born in 69 BC. Alike many of William Wetmore Story’s sculptures‚ Cleopatra is sitting down in
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art in Paris‚ the heart of the artistic world. A playboy to the core Picasso used his wild lifestyle as inspiration to his rather different approach to his artwork. Picasso was a painter‚ sculpture and basically a creator. He saw things in a totally different way then anyone else did. His drawings and sculptures portrayed objects and people in a cubism form of art. The objects or people were disorientated which depicted a type of mood or feeling or emotion in the drawing. The drawing I choose to recreate
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John Fox Slater. Slater has 227 plaster casts of classical and Renaissance sculptures and almost 600 photographs of famous works of Europeans and art and architecture. The museum serves to expose students of Norwich Free Academy and the community to culture and aesthetics outside of their reach. The sculptures are castings of original works that are found in European museums in bullet proof glass. The Greek sculptures are all organized in one section and are from different time periods such
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