Marble

being conservative in saying ninety. Would you eat a lemon and limestone pie? Probably not right? How about this one? The next time you are working on your marble counter top and you are fixing yourself a nice peanut butter sandwich, have you ever tempted to just take a nice little mallet, and knock the corner off of the table, off of that marble counter top, and throw it in your sandwich. Hasn't…

Polykleitos is well known for his artwork sculpture – Doryphoros. Doryphoros was a bronze artwork (that has been lost) but the Roman rework made from marble with a chisel is 2.12m in height. Doryphoros, meaning “spear-bearer” is an example of contrapposto – the relaxed balanced stature stance seen in Doryphoros with one foot in front and one back, making it seem relaxed to the responder. The world and…

Mary, through an amassment of the garments on her lap into a sea of folded drapery. While this detail of the folds in the cloth served a practical purpose, it also allowed Michelangelo to display his skills when working with marble, for after his work was complete, the marble looked less like stone and more lie actual cloth due to its multiplicity of natural-looking folds, curves and deep…

The Imperial Palace and Forbidden City are two sinister sounding names for the Chinese royal palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is the largest and best preserved palace in the world today. Fourteen emperors in the Ming dynasty and ten emperors in the Qing dynasty along with their royal families and some chief government lived in the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was started in 1407 and completed in 1420 by Emperor Yongle (a.k.a Chengzu) in the Ming dynasty. Emperor Yongle moved…

football, and other sports. Sports are a big thing to some people like Phineas in the novel, he was very athletic and did a variety of sports until he had his accident at the tree Which put him in a cast and then a cane and shortly he fell down a set of marble staircase in which brought him to his death from the bone marrow that entered his bloodstream and went directly to his heart. But this paper is not all about Phineas is it? No, it’s about sports at Devin. At Devin there are many kids or…

Daily life Daily life in the Middle Colonies have perfect days and hardships just like any other place. Mostly,everyone works long hours on the farms; as well as in the houses. Working with your family and friends on the farm is fun. The men in the house will be controlling the economics as well as doing most of the work on the farms. The young boys will learn by helping the men plant and harvest the crops. People will trade, sell and eat these crops. Women sewed, cared for their children…

The Vesperbild and the Pieta are funeral monument pieces conveying the emotions of pity, passion, and pain. Christ and the Virgin Mary effectively capture and translate those emotions from the artists’ imagination. Each sculpture successfully depicts the death of Christ, which Mary holds upon her lap in vein with high details as well. Most importantly, both sculptors found it fit to extend a particular style which they made their own when sculpting. Beyond the Vesperbild and the Pieta both…

de Milo. Venus de Milo is a statue of a woman with no arms. The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue. It is often thought to represent Aphrodite, a Greek goddess, because of the unique beauty of the woman presented. Venus de Milo is made out of marble, which means that the statue can be damaged very easily. The Louvre holds many different types of art work with statues and paintings being the main kind. Another site to see in Paris, France is the catacombs of Paris. The catacombs hold over…

Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005) is Marc 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…

Evaluation Conclusion Statement: Centripetal force is inversely proportional to radius and therefore centripetal force is decreasing exponentially as radius increases. This can be supported by my equation of Y=A/x +/- .05 where A= 0.3322 The graph of my data collected showed my predictions were incorrect, I thought that the larger the radius meant the larger centripetal force would be shown, however it was actually inversely proportional. The experiment concludes that centripetal force will…