Marble sculpture

development of sculpture are closely associated the emergence of human society. It is the history of human identity recording the thoughts, culture, and aesthetic concept of the people at that age, also reflects the pursuit of one generation to another generation. Commemorative Portrait of a Chief (Lefem), an African wood sculpture from 19th to early 20th century, is a portrayal of one of the ruler of Bangwa chiefdoms . In contrast, The Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules, a Roman marble…

The sculpture is standing with most of his weight leaning onto his left leg and his right leg is bent slightly as well, as if he is about to take a step. He is looking down towards his hand, which, is holding the scraper. A scraper is something Roman athletes used to scrape dirt and sweat from their bodies. The lower right arm is broken off and it is also missing the upper portion of the scraper. It was found in nine pieces and put back together but no restorations were made. The sculpture looks…

Egyptian and Near Eastern monumental art, but over time they developed their own independent artistic identity. Through many Greek sculptors we are able to examine the abandonment of the rigid and unnatural Egyptian pose, into the more realistic sculpture that portrays how a human body truly stands. Greek sculptors were particularly concerned with proportion, poise, and idealised perfection of the human body. As Greek sculptors practiced throughout the years, they were able to more accurately…

Sarcophagus. It is at the Istanbul Archaeological Museums. In the section of Roman Period Works Sidamara Type Sarcophagus can be found with other sarcophaguses and grave steels. It is made from marble as other sarcophaguses in that period. The period is Roman Period and 2. century A.D. . The period can be seen from sculptures which placed to sarcophagus and also from columns too. Order of columns is ionic order . Roman architects determined the shape, proportion and decoration according to…

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was a sculpture unlike any sculpture before him. The episode, The Power of Art, illustrates examples of his sculptures and his work as an architect. Bernini was able to carve so much depth and so much emotion out of a single piece of marble. The world had never seen such movement and play out from a sculptures and Bernini had revolutionized a new way in the world of sculpting. The accounts of Bernini’s life are based from a biography written by Filippo Baldinucci, who…

Encased in marble, is a man on the verge of giving into temptation. The statue is of Adam, the first man, holding the Forbidden fruit and readying to take a bite. Every inch of Adam shows the mastery of the artist behind the sculpture. In their article, “Adam by Tullio Lombardo,” Luke Syson, Chairman of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts; and Valeria Cafà, assistant curator, explain that Tullio Lombardo was commissioned to carve a statue of Adam for a Venetian doge (chief…

were realistic and not idealized, unlike the Greek art values. Greek art values personified gods such as Apollo and Zeus to perfect the ideal human form. The statues in Tourists II are the opposite. Tourists II was taken in 1988 (Riggs). Instead of marble, these statues are built with fiberglass and decorated in modern tourist clothing…

and finished in 1504. This sculpture is 518 centimeters (17’ tall) and is made of marble. It was made during the Italian Renaissance. This sculpture is located in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy (Smart History, 2015). This stature was made to represent the biblical hero David, as the title suggests, who fought Goliath (Smart History, 2015). David is a young individual that battles Goliath when his older counterparts feared Goliath. Michelangelo’s sculpture seems to show David…

The dying Gaul it's a lost bronze Greek sculpture, It is larger than a life-size marble sculpture of a naked man sitting on the ground. (Marble is also one of the most popular materials to use in sculpture). Created in the Hellenistic period c. 220 B.C.E. The origin of the original sculptor remains unknown due to it being created such a long time ago. People have just being making educated guesses about why this was created. Some people say that it was to celebrate his victory over the…

the second work of art is called David and was sculpted from an 18ft marble block by the artist and poet Michelangelo. The final product measures at 17ft without the pedestal and is currently at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy. 2. Please describe IN DETAIL everything you see in these two works of art. Provide as much DETAIL and DEPTH in how you describe what you see by writing about everything in each sculpture piece.…