Statue

200 warships, Demetrius was unable to break through Rhodes' impressive defenses and the relief troops that Ptolemy had sent in, as a result of this victory, a statue in honor of helios was declared to be made.…

Erechtheion, on the Acropolis, Athens, 421-05 BC I have chosen to do my essay on the Erechtheion, on the Acropolis. The reason I had chosen the Acropolis temple is because of the beautiful statues represented on the south side of the temple. I also enjoyed reading the history and what the temple represents to the Greeks. Doing some research throughout the module 4 pages 14 and 15 there is a lot of information located on the web. I found that the temple was built in honor of Athena and also…

Greek history lasted from about 700-480 BCE. During this time period, art historians called it the Geometric age because it marked the return of the human figure. One example of this type of art would be Lady of Auxerre, 650-625 BCE (Fig 2-15). This statue was one of the earliest limestone statuettes of a goddess or maiden. It has a flat-topped head that is triangular in shape. The skirt is geometric in shape due to the square designs on it. She also has the "Archaic Smile" which is typical in…

The words “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” are written onto the statue. Here, the poet juxtaposes the king’s words with the decaying statue referenced earlier in the poem and a description of the “colossal wreck”. It seems that everything has eroded away and “nothing beside remains”. Shelley’s descriptions of both the desert and the statue reconstruct the reader’s idea of Ozymandias and makes a social comment about the superficiality of life in the…

of the thing. Aristotle better explains this with an example of a statue. The bronze is not the statue, yet the way the bronze is molded into the statue creates the formal cause of the statue (48, 194b5). The statue takes form because of the way the bronze designs the statue. Bronze could hypothetically be used to create countless different items. Yet, the way bronze is molded into the shape of a statue is what gives the statue its…

It consists of 100 cast iron sculpture of the artist’s own body facing towards the sea. The sculpture was established in 1997. Another Place is a subject of local controversy in Mersey Side. Some consider the statues to be pornographic due to the inclusion of a simplified penis on the statues; others see them as beautiful pieces of art which have brought tourist revenue to local areas. Also the sculpture has been located in several places, because the sculpture got many complainants and being…

How tall is the Great Pyramid at Giza? The Great Pyramid at Giza is “the largest and oldest” of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was originally roughly 146 meters tall (481 feet). However it has “lost about 10 meters in height over the millennia.” Now it stands at the height of approximately 139 (455 feet.) https://www.thoughtco.com/how-tall-was-the-great-pyramid-118066 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza 2. How many blocks of stone are in the Great Pyramid? The…

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visit My visit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) was a long one – however, the visit was still an exquisite one because some of the artwork that was there that caught my eyes. There were countless stunning and alluring artworks at the VMFA that I took pictures of in the collections I visited. I went to the American + European Design Collection (Art Deco and Art Nouveau), the African Art Collection, the East Asian Art Collection, and the South Asian Art…

Hygieia, is designed with a marble exterior, making the statue seem as it is of Greek origin however this statue has an origin dating back to Roman times, during 200-250 A.D. Hygieia is the daughter of Asklepios, the god of medicine; a personification of good health, she was typically portrayed feeding a coiled snake, a reference to the serpent-entwined rod wielded by her father that later came to symbolize the healing arts. Her cultural image often merged with other deities, such as Aphrodite…

Hanga Roa. This island is famed for the wonderful archaeological sites with around 900 monumental statues. These statues were made between the 10th -16th century, They are called moai, having large heads and smaller bodies. The largest moai dates to the middle time period. the measurements being 32 ft tall and consist of one block weighing about 82 tons. While archaeologists have found all these statues the island is still full of mysteries. The land shows…