In the plaster cast you see a dying, weaken soldier who has loss in battle. I thought it was really peculiar how the architect sculpted Gual’s broken sword and what looks like a belt. It helped me see a little of the environment that the soldier was a part of. It also gave a better picture on how the soldier is beaten and his much humanized emotions. You don’t get to see the naturalistic emotion with the Archaic period with the Archaic smile and the stringed, stand still body pose. This sculptor also shows recurring facial features with the thick brows and the thick mustache just like with the scene of Laocoons and Sons which looks like a very popular style in the Hellenistic period. There is no excess relief in this sculpture and there also seems to be a very naturalistic features in the body throughout the shoulders and also in the lower body. The architect really gave Dying Gual a very natural pose of defeat, because this is how I look when I fail an exam, so I can really
In the plaster cast you see a dying, weaken soldier who has loss in battle. I thought it was really peculiar how the architect sculpted Gual’s broken sword and what looks like a belt. It helped me see a little of the environment that the soldier was a part of. It also gave a better picture on how the soldier is beaten and his much humanized emotions. You don’t get to see the naturalistic emotion with the Archaic period with the Archaic smile and the stringed, stand still body pose. This sculptor also shows recurring facial features with the thick brows and the thick mustache just like with the scene of Laocoons and Sons which looks like a very popular style in the Hellenistic period. There is no excess relief in this sculpture and there also seems to be a very naturalistic features in the body throughout the shoulders and also in the lower body. The architect really gave Dying Gual a very natural pose of defeat, because this is how I look when I fail an exam, so I can really