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Roman Mythology is full of references to orgies, incest, and acts of cruelties, which degrades the mind of religious individuals. This idea is enforced in this painting by the impression that the statues are ostentatiously showing their nudity. This is a complete opposite to the other individuals in the painting as they are all wearing clothes. The demonization of those religious figures was inherited from the Middle Age, where demons were often depicted…

He rose to prominence when Pericles ascended to power in 449 B.C., and he was given the mantle to lead all artistic undertakings in Athens. After the victory over Persia, Pericles commissioned his close friend and adviser, Phidias, to build major statues for the city in order to beautify it. During this period, he created among other works, the three works for which his mastery and skill has an artistic became renowned. These were the three monuments of the Athenian Acropolis including the…

In Plato’s allegory of the caves suggests that there are two things that separate the physical from the metaphysics. What’s deemed physical for example is what we can touch what is sensible to us and able to live. The physical is the realm of becoming. On the other hand, what’s prescribed to be metaphysics is something that is beyond physics. Metaphysical is simply is something you cannot touch. The aspect of metaphysic is what helps influence the essence of what’s physical. With these two…

The statue of Menkaure and a queen, probably Khamerernebty II is a notable statue uncovered by the archaeologists excavating in Menkaure's valley temple. Menkaure was an Egyptian king ruling during the Old Kingdom and is remembered for his famous tomb, the Pyramid of Menkaure. Like the other kings who preceded him, Menkaure had several wives, Khamerernebty II and Rekhter. Like many of the other sculptures that preceded this, the artist used the same canon, having the hands being straight beside…

700-600 B.C. - Greece had more contact with other civilizations, specifically those of Egypt and the Mesopotamia region, and thus eastern creatures such as the sphinx started showing up in art. • Archaic Period: 600-480 B.C. - Known for lifelike statues that depicted young men, often the participants of the Olympics, completely nude. Stone temples with peripteral colonnades and conformity either…

representing the city of Florence, where it was originally placed. In contrast, Bernini, of the Baroque period, created his David statue in 1623. His replica represented David in the midst of battle with Goliath, rather than prior. He is shown with his muscles taught and slingshot ready to fire. Although only a century had past, many differences can be seen between each statue, which in turn shows just how much change each period brought with…

“The Lady of Life”. According to the scholars, most of the statues came from the actually site, but some possibly came from the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile. Today the statues can be found in various museums across the globe: in Philadelphia, the UPenn Museum; in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts has one seated statue, the Cairo Museum has six statues, and in London, the British Museum has thirty statues, just to name a few…

towards more representational style. It was during this period that we saw life sized stone carvings of people starting to emerge. This was likely inspired by the works of the ancient Egyptians. The Greeks started with rigid and lifeless looking statues. For whatever reason their culture seemed to push towards more realistic sculptures, and so the Greeks started to study the human body. They did so in a way that had never been done before. Maticulessly studing every detail of every part of the…

Roy Emerson Imagine constantly training non-stop every day, soaked with sweat, this is what the greatest tennis players must do to succeed. Ladies and gentlemen, Roy Emerson deserves to have a statue constructed at Frew Park in Milton as he is a worthy tennis role model of Queensland. As the best tennis player, he has made major contributions to Australian tennis and setting amazing records. Known as a legend in tennis, he is a great Australian role model and is known world-wide. Roy Emerson…

Before the Knossos Palace was discover by Sir Arthur Evans, it was considered to be a mystical place somewhere near Greece. There were a lot of debates whether this place actually exists. In 1900, a British Archeologist discover Knossos palace on an island called Crete, which is south of Greece. It is one of the biggest palaces in Crete. In the research paper, I will further discuss the language and how anthropologists use the artwork (such as painting, pottery, relief, frescoes, architectural…