Bronze

From the outside the Pantheon looks like a traditional Roman or Greek temple, but once you enter through the giant bronze doors, your mind is blown. The interior is completely round, without a single corner on the outside walls. One would be amazed by the amount of gray and pink granite columns that are soaring up towards the ceiling. With the total interior height…

Plymouth's history. The main staircase rises opposite the main entrance doors. It is cantilevered from a central beam of reinforced concrete. The treads, risers and moulded handrail are of afrormosia, a West African wood, and it has a metal balustrade of bronze and stainless steel with panels of toughened plate glass. The Council Chamber is designed to seat 90 members on five sides of an octagon so that all members are within a set minimum distance from the Lord Mayor. The seating for the…

Wrestling is one of the oldest sports. They have found cave drawings of it that dated up to 15,000 years ago. Wrestling was very popular in the Olympic games. It originated in Greece as a way to teach soldiers hand-to-hand combat. It was most popular during the middle ages. There are four ways of winning a wrestling match. One, you can win by major decision which is winning by points. Two, you can win by technical fall which is where you win by 15 points and its an automatic win. Three, you…

In the Edo world view, the head is considered to symbolize a man's knowledge, authority, success, and family leadership. The burden of providing for his family and seeing them through times of trouble is often described as being "on his head." Each new king or “Oba” of the Nigerian kingdom of Benin memorialized his father with a portrait cast in brass, made by craftsmen of the brass fraternity. The oba is often called a "Great Head," accentuating the head of the living leader as having the…

Introduction The monumental Middle Bronze Age gate, complete with two well-preserved mudbrick towers, represents one of the crowning architectural achievements of Canaanite Gezer. The gate, the defensive wall, the grand watchtower, the row of standing stones, and the massive rock-hewn water system illustrate a flourishing MB II society at Gezer. While Irish archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister uncovered all these features in the early 1900s, archaeological and anthropological questions remain.…

Midterm: The Sparta and Athens The ancient Greek city, first thought should be Spartan and Athens. The two city-states have always been very contrary to the impression that Sparta is the authoritarian oligarchy, known for land military forces, and Athens is open-minded democracy, Athens is not the kind of brave feeling, but Is good at philosophy, literature, art, mathematics, cultural capital, but also the sea Pa people. More importantly, after the second Greco-Persian Wars (480 to 479 BC), the…

Thus by being surrounded with alien polities, Shang developed the sense of being in the middle and applied it to its state rituals and other aspects of lives as Wang proposed. To prove this point, Wang ingeniously uses the 亞-shape tomb structures, bronze inscriptions with the 亞 symbol and even much later Zhou architecture. Though little solid evidence is given in this work to prove the connection between “sifang” and the tomb structures and architectures in Zhou times, but it is a very…

opportunity to balance their health care needs and budgets. In either event, the writer feels there is no need to use medical services more than once a year, therefore choosing the silver plan will help balance care and out-of-pocket costs. The bronze plan was the second choice, but as the body gets older, one must be aware that more visits to a personal physician are just around the corner. Each individual must make their selection according to needs and affordability. Either way, there is…

Ruth Duckworth was an artist who used clay and bronze to make sculptures, murals, and other pieces of art. I found her art interesting because it's abstract and she doesn't only make one type of work. Ruth Duckworth was born on April 10, 1919 in Hamburg, Germany with the name Ruth Windmüller. She initially found interest in drawing and painting after she was recommended by a doctor that she stay at home to improve her health. Because her father was Jewish and the Nazi regime wouldn't let her…

goddess, Athena, her shield, and the goddess, Nike who rests on her hand.Phidias began sculpting in 447 AD. However, in 296 AD the gold sheets used to make the statue were removed by Lachares to pay of his troops. They were eventually replaced with bronze. It used to be housed in the parthenon but the romans supposedly removed it from it’s home in the 5th century AD. Since then it has been lost except for a single…