Carrara

Michelangelo Buonarroti is one of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists in the world. He’s got his fame for being a sculptor, but he’s also a painter, poet, and an architect. He has made many sculptures and used numerous types of materials. And he once said that the Block of Carrara marble he used to make La Pieta was the most “perfect” block he ever used, and he waxed this specific block of marble more than any other sculpture he created to make it extra shiny. The sculpture presents the Virgin Mary holding the deceased body of Christ in her arms after he was put down from the cross, then later was placed inside the tomb. The most common form being sculptured at that time was the Pietas. Michelangelo’s version of Pietas is a lot less…

Landslides are landforms that are produced by a variety of gravity-driven mass movements (Carrara, 2012, p.11). These landslides are one of the dominant features within the Mesa Verde area because it encompasses about nine percent of the map area. There are over 150 landslides that have currently been identified. Many of these landslides occur within the Menefee Formation and the Mancos Shale which are two of the four sedimentary rock levels. Loess is wind-blown silt and fine sand and clay.…

Female passivity and male dominance are causing harm to many people and especially students; these ideas are promoting a culture in which men take advantage of women and do harm to them both physically and mentally (Benagiano, Carrara, & Filippi, 2012). Other genders lack recognition and validity and because of that they aren’t getting treated as they should be. Ways to stop this huge concern is first of all education. Until many see this as a problem, they will not act. One group that…

So many broken down relics, back alleys, and buildings sagging with age passed us by. I wondered what I had gotten myself into. We entered Carrara, there, on the small underpass was a mirror, shot by a gun, cracked, just like all my hopes that I would survive the year. We parked the car under an overshadowing steel construction beam, and got out onto the slim marble sidewalk. We walked what I now know is a block and a half to the apartment I was staying in for the next twelve months. The big,…

The Pietà is a classical beauty with Naturalism. The word Pietà has two different definitions; “compassion and pity” (New Renaissance Art, 2014). The sculpture of the Pietà shows the compassion and love that the Virgin Mary has for her son. The sculpture is created of Carrara marble. The texture of the sculpture is smooth for the most part, but has different textures throughout it. For example, Jesus’s wavy hair and the facial hair on his chin both have the texture and look of it being lifelike.…

artwork. Unlike his artwork though they felt that the lines were there to distract the viewer from the poor workmanship of Hirst’s paintings of the skulls. They felt that the portrayal of the objects were poorly executed. The art none the less is still loved by the fans of Hirst even in his slowing down career. (Conrad, 1) Damien Hirst had done more than glass case sculptures as well, he worked with Carrara marble. One piece that he had sculpted from this material was “The Anatomy of An Angel.”…

The Heroic Children Los Ninos Heroes ( The Heroic Children) played a big role in the history of Mexico. The heroic children were six military teenage students that died defending their country. These six young boys fought for their country during the Mexican - American War. This event took place in at Mexico City's Chapultepec Castle, which was the Mexican army's military academy (JB, Aetna). Their ages ranged from thirteen years to nineteen years old. During the war the military teenagers…

Pieta, resulting in it now being enclosed in bulletproof glass. Michelangelo created his masterpiece out of a single slab of Carrara marble. It is about five feet and eight inches tall. The Pieta is the only piece he signed, he put his signature on the sash. Michelangelo’s sculptures incorporate a great deal of texture and detail. Mary and Jesus’s skin is shown to be smooth which gives the effect of youth and innocence. Mary’s robe has a draping, oversized effect as if he could not get the robe…

This had a very great influence on art. There were various inventions that were made in this era. For example there was the invention of the microscope by Anton Van Leewenhoek which enabled the discovery of blood cells and sperm. There was also the invention of the telescope by Galileo Galilei which led to the confirmation of the Copernicus’ heliocentric theory. A famous piece of art that was made during the baroque era would be the Matyrdom of Saint Lawrence by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The…

miles) from Rome. In the 15th century there alredy was a small Trevi Fountain which was built during the papacy of Nicholas V. In 1732, pope Clement XII commissioned Nicola Salvi to create a large fountain at the Trevi Square to replace the existing fountain. The fountain took 30 years to build upon completion in 1762. Nicola Salvi based his theatrical masterpiece on this design.He died in 1751 and never saw his monumental Baroque fountain completed. The fountain was completed by Pietro…