The piece I have chosen is entitled the Steleophorus Statue. It is from Dynasty 18‚ Reigns of Tuthmosis III and IV from around 1479 to 1390 BCE. The statue depicts a male figure that is kneeling. He is also holding part of a large stela rising to his chin while placed on his knees with hieroglyphic writing on it that has damaged and worn over time. The most prominent destruction is seen on the left side where a large chunk of the tablet has been broken off. In addition to the fragmented stela‚ much
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Introduction The Statue of Liberty (officially named‚ Liberty Enlightening the World) is a monument that was gifted to the USA by France and is of a female person that represents Libertas‚ the Roman goddess of freedom. It was declared on the 28th of October 1886 and is situated on Liberty Island in New York Harbour. History Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholin was asked to design a statue to commemorate the 100th birthday of the American Declaration of Independence. The Statue was a team effort
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‘What I like so much about contemporary art now is its ambiguity‚ its uncertainty. It is precisely this quality that engages and unsettles us’ – Benjamin Genocchio‚ art critic. How does this view challenge traditional ideas about art? Discuss particular works such as installations‚ happenings and site-specific works. Audiences make pretentious judgements on artworks due to their ambiguity and uncertainty. However‚ traditionally site-specific art was created to exist in a specific place‚ rather
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The city has voted and discussed the removal of statues because they want them gone. The article shows that
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HISTORY OF ART FOLLOWING THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (1543 - 63)‚ THE COUNTER REFORMATION CHURCH REQUIRED THAT ART SHOULD PROVIDE AN EMOTIONAL STIMULUS TO PIETY AND INVOLVE THE SPECTATOR. WITH THIS IN MIND‚ HOW DID GIANLORENZO BERNINI (1598-1680) FIND NEW WAYS OF REINVENTING STATUES OF CHRISTIAN FEELING? Quod non fecerunt barbari Fecerunt Barberini Anonimous[1] Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) is considered to be “the artist who most profoundly shaped the public
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became the cradle of the arts and philosophy and much of it inspired by the Holy See.
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Society is a glass statue hanging on the edge of a cliff. It is only held on by thin strings that keep it from crashing. If one string was cut‚ society would slip and crack. These crucial strings are held tightly in place by an anchor. That anchor is respect. If respect were uprooted all the strings would fail and the glass statue would topple and shatter on the ground. A bad society is one without respect. Without respect people would do whatever they wanted because they would not care if
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two incredibly similar and magnificent works of art. If that is not a worthy feat in itself‚ the two works of art were also created almost two-thousand years apart from each other before the two civilizations had any sort of major contact with one another. The similarities of the works‚ despite the time and distance‚ suggests that Ancient Egypt had more of an impact on Ancient Greece than was previously understood. By looking at these two works of art‚ a deeper understanding of the relations between
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christian people that despite not knowing what he actually looked like‚ artists throughout history have erected many statues in his honor. In this essay I will present a comparison of three statues of David. In chronological order we will look at the David statues of Donatello‚ Andrea Del Verrocchio and Michelangelo finding similarities and differences in the various aspects of these statues. Donatello’s "David" was his landmark work‚ the first work of its kind in over a thousand years‚ and helped to
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‘The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.’ -Pablo Picasso How can events in the life of an artist influence the work they produce? Although the ideas that shape an artist’s work come from within‚ their inspiration comes from the outside world: their own experiences within it and reflections upon it. Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in response to the bombing of a village in northern Spain‚ perhaps finding some relief in transferring uneasy thoughts sparked by the tragedy
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