Wax sculpture

This fee also ensured that the remains of the roman would have a niche guaranteed in a columbaria. Columbaria were large vaults with niches for urns that contain the remains of the dead. Usually the niches where marked with plaques, portraits and sculpture of those that had passed. Collegia were very important as it was a way to ensure all classes of society would be able to reach the underworld. On the occasion an emperor would even allow funeral allowances to people that couldn’t afford to…

A variety of mythological stories take place throughout art history, many of which are well known for containing strong emotional and moral messages. The stories are used to teach a moral lesson or understand why things are a certain way, or how they came to be. For example, deserts were created when Phaethon was driving his father’s sun chariot, essentially burning certain parts of the earth such as Africa to form deserts. Similarly, each phenomenon has a meaning or message behind it which is…

the six china confucianism classics be engraved in stone so that the people of China would have a real version of the china confucianism stories. As a result of the engraved texts, Confucian scholars placed black pieces of paper on the engraved sculptures and rub charcoal or graphite on the paper to have white texts against a dark paper and the emperors carved texts in a raised form before applying ink to the engraved letters so that the black texts can appear on the white paper. The techniques…

painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1812. The painting showcases a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as the French Emperor. However, the embedded symbols—like the honeybees, books written by Plutarch, classic French military uniform, map scrolls and dripping wax candles—in the composition communicates political power. The author Allen Forrest who wrote Propaganda and the Legitimation of Power in Napoleonic France contends, “Art and music furnished him [Napoleon] with powerful vectors of propaganda,…

STREET ART Street art is a unique form of modern artistic expression. It has become a part of the urban environment, growing and changing with the city and the people that live there. Street art can comment on a social issue, poke fun at some aspect of society, or simply beautify a run-down area of the city. Even though the modern style of street art and graffiti was developed and perfected in the 1970s, elements of graffiti can be traced all the way back to the early 19th century. Today, street…

America has been the land that has always grown and expanded. Expanded with the idea that you can do anything you want, build what you want, and create anything you please. Business boomed in the 1800’s with many men and many ideas that created with each other. Andrew Carnegie invested in the Woodruff Corporation and created the very first railroad sleeping car. In 1860 he ended up making five thousand dollars a year and ended with an annual income of almost fifty thousand dollars a year.…