Marble sculpture

wished to render the marble flexible, Bernini created a David who breaks into space with athletic vitality” (Fiero 268). Another common theme of art in the Italian Baroque era is that art creates a scene and a story. Bernini expresses so much in the story of David through his sculpture with just the one captured moment of him pulling the sling shot back. David’s face in the statue is stern and focused. This adds to the drama of the scene and gives more emotion to the sculpture. It also greatly…

Quinn’s colossal marble monument of Alison Lapper, who is phocomelic with shortened limbs and known for her courage that overcame constant disadvantages for being the disabled (Quinn 2012, para. 1; Kieran 2009, 32). This sculpture was commissioned by Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, and erected as the first female and the disabled sculpture of the Fourth Plinth Trafalgar Square (Lewis 2005, para. 3). Through Quinn’s locational, elaborative and compositional choice, the sculpture…

The greatest example of Hellenistic Greek sculpture, the colossal Altar of Zeus at Pergamon, near Izmir (Turkey), is a monumental work of Greek art built by King Eumenes II of the Attalid dynasty, from about 166 to 156 BCE. The altar is adorned with a 370-foot long marble frieze which depicts the Gigantomachy from Greek mythology. Like the Parthenon in Athens - another icon of classical antiquity - the Zeus Altar was constructed on a terrace of the acropolis overlooking the ancient city of…

ascertain, if one reads with care, it can be found. This paper centers around a pair of sculptures called “The Dying Gaul and The Gaul Killing Himself and his Wife” long attributed to a Greek sculptor. The main argument is about the actual historical originality of these figures, but there is also a much deeper current of inquiry into how much of Roman sculpture is original. Marvin hypothesizes that much of the sculpture from Rome can actually be linked to artists who were not Greek but…

Classical Greek was an important period. There were many creative and architectural advances that happened in Athens. Greek sculptures and architectect had abstract characteristics and reflected ideas of humanism and rationalism. One of the most significant architectural piece of Greek culture is the Parthenon. The Parthenon was created by Iktinos and Kallikrates in 440 BCE. The building was created with columns and was symmetrical. The Parthenon was smaller than former civilizations…

contender of the archetypal Renaissance man. He was so successful with his work, that he had a biography published while he was alive, being the first Western artist to accomplish this. David was one of his most famous sculptures which he sculpted before he was 30. This Renaissance sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504.…

and mode of transport for the medium, and the workmanship involved to finish the sarcophagus. First the marble or stone were quarried, roughly cut into a rectangular shape, hollowed out, to save on weight, and shipped by land or sea. After arriving at the secondary workshop the new arrived marble or stone boxes were roughly hewn into its preferred shape. It was then transported to a sculpture workshop where the figures were chiseled out in a rough form and then prefabricated package was stored.…

Persephone is a high relief sculpture that shows Hades (god of the underworld) abducting Demeter’s (the harvest goddess) very young daughter Persephone so that he can marry the young girl. This relief sculpture was inspired by the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which tells the story of Hades kidnapping Persephone. This work of art is a relief sculpture that was created out of marble since marble was a common medium that the ancient Greeks and Romans would use in sculptures. The sculpture itself is…

ability. I believe that I could have created Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889, because it is a piece that I enjoy to look at. I feel as though it speaks to me, and portrays somethings that I feel. However, I could never have created the sculpture St. Mark, by Donatello in 1413, because it was so intricate and large. It would have taken great skill in many areas to create a work of art as extravagant. Starry Night is a master piece. It uses mostly dark colors. Of the colors used it…

Michelangelo carved the wooden crucifix that he promised to the church in exchange to study human biology. In between the years of 1493 to 1494 (Michelangelo was 18 in 1493 and 19 in 1494 during this time) Michelangelo had purchased a large block of marble and carved and chiseled a large statue of Hercules, but was later on sent to France and eventually disappeared sometime circa 18th century. In January 1494, after much snowfall, Lorenzo de’ Medici’s heir, Piero de Medici, commissioned a snow…