Ancient Civilization Vs Greek Art

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Art classifies a civilization; it distinguishes the difference in culture made by sculpture, paintings, and tapestry. Today I have attended the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, to visualize art in Ancient times from different civilizations. By observing each civilization sculpture, I would distinguish the difference between appearances of religious leaders or gods. Thus, furthering information learns from History class and comparing it to the sculptures I 've chosen.

Egypt was a civilization where art depictions come mostly from their religion. Sculptures were the benefit of the divine or royal kings, queens, gods, goddesses and pharaohs due to the fact that they were worshiped and honored. The title of the art that I was interested in was the
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With Ancient Greece inspiration, it shows how the Romans artisans were strict in depicting their ideology of beauty, nudity, and reality to create a human structure. A male 's nudity was commonly used and was a recommended in the Roman era. They emphasize in details in how the sculpture 's body should resemble. His body should be carved into every female 's desire, wavy and radiant hair, slim and in good shape with sharply clear-cut physique.
The cartoon movie Hercules was the stepping-stone, of my interest in Gods. In the movie, he was like superman, a protagonist that we all loved who fought several obstacles. However, in Greek Literature he was well known for is the strength but also had flaws, just as we humans have.
Roman Religion was the focal point on gods and the explanations for circumstances typically include the gods. Romans believe that gods control their life, therefore spending a great time to create worship
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The period it was made is the Pandyan period dated in the second half of the 8th early 9th century. Even though it 's India 's religious God, he has spread throughout South Asia. The sculpture made up of Granulite shows Vishnu is seated on the lion 's throne with one of his legs folded on the chair, and his right leg dangling off the seat. His right hand lay gently on his thighs and his left hand was believed to be holding an object. Even though he to some extent had human physical features, it reveals to the viewers that he had four hands altogether. On his upper left hand, he supposes to be holding a conch used as a battle-trumpet, and on his right upper hand a war discus though it was not shown. Vishnu wore a hat right on top of his round plump face. Unlike, Pharaohs Vishnu presented with human emotions. I reckoned, that he had a smile on his face showing purity and

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