Marble sculpture

Greek high Classical period famous sculptures, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower) was made at 450 BCE by sculptor Myron I believe the significant about this sculpture is his potential for energy. This sculpture is showing full of life and motion. His energy appears wound up, waiting to release it. By comparison with the Romanesque period Sculpture, Last Judgment was made between 1120-1135 by sculptor Gislebertus. The significant of this sculpture represents strong messages about Heaven and Hell into…

constructed as imperial tributes, and set up to protect the wealthy and the land they managed. Seen as regal beasts, strong and courageous, they were made to stand at the emperor’s gate to ward off evil. Around the 1000s, they were often times made out of marble, copper, or cast iron. Oftentimes, lion statues depicted the bodhisttva, or Buddhist diety of wisdom, Wenshu, on its back, symbolizing strength and the protection of Buddhist law. The craftsman that created this brilliant work of art…

I found my visit to the Tampa Museum of Art to be enjoyable. I really enjoyed seeing older pieces of art like the red and black figure vases and greco-roman statues. I loved the few ancient marble pieces they did have and I wish there were more of them. I do however wish the museum’s collection was larger and I was surprised when I came into to the last section of the museum to realize that it was the last room. Even though the museum did not have a large collection, I did still the enjoy the…

This remarkable sculpture of the Greek hero Herakles is one of J. Paul Getty’s most prized possessions and inspired him to build this Museum in the style of an ancient Roman villa. The statue, representing the Greek hero Herakles with his lion skin and club, was discovered in 1790 near the villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (ruled A.D. 117-138) at Tivoli, Italy, It was purchased in 1792 by an English collector, the Marquess of Lansdowne, to become part of his extensive private collection of…

Sculpture and Architecture have represented cultures for thousands of years, all the way back to the paleolithic era, and are still used in today’s culture. Sculpture and Architecture are used in so many different ways, for example to honor leaders, as religious symbols, decoration, and artistic expression just to name a few. They are also landmarks that help us remember the past and works of art that we can admire in the present. Today I will be exploring the similarities and differences…

Sometimes when we think of sculptures we can think of ancient gods carved out of giant pieces marble, or delicate ceramic figures, but beautiful and high quality sculptures can also be created out of unconventional materials. Everyday objects that would usually be perceived as useless rubbish like bottles, pencils and really anything, can be recycled into great works of art. This is called Junk Sculpture and has become increasingly popular. This is because the materials themselves can be used to…

is named after the islands where the pieces were found (the islands make a circle around Delos). Most of the art found in these islands are small statuettes which depict nude women in most cases with some exceptions. These figurines were made with marble and placed in graves in order to accompany the dead to the afterlife.Examples of this art are "Syros Women" and "Keros Musician". The first period, also known as Palace Period, was destroyed by a fire followed by an earthquake. However,…

of the man’s muscles in soft highlights and shadows while the rock has a greater contrast between light and shadows and. The male body atop of the rock is similar to classical sculpture in how it there seem to be no visible marks from the artist leaving only a smooth finish, but unlike the art of antiquity, modern sculpture started to show more of the hand of the artist regarding how the marks are put down.When it come to this work, the marks from what one can assume were Rodin’s chisel can be…

at CCA in 1965. Her work is renowned for its non-classical, unique form and thematic notations regarding “gender, cultural iconography, and art history.” Her piece Pink Lady was sculpted from stoneware, glazed, and painted in 1973. The massive sculpture, which is about 6’4” tall, 4’6” wide, and 3’6” deep, shows a woman, clothed in an ill-fitting yellow bra adorned with blue stars and matching shorts while her feet are adorned…

follows up on this assertion by confessing that, in his old age, he has acquiesced to the idea that painting and sculpture are, in fact, ‘one and the same’ in that they both ‘proceed from one and the same faculty of understanding’, it is made equally evident – through both his lexical choices and his manifest scorn at the notion that one might consider painting a ‘nobler’ art form than ‘sculpture’ – that the renowned artist still harbours a preference for sculptural art. This,…