The Kouros is one of the earliest life-size statuary in the history of Greek Art. Unlike more modern and accurate sculptures the Kourous’s slim waste and pointed arch of its rib cage creates a V shaped ridge of the hips. This form does not depict the budging flesh associated with muscle of the human body. Like many other early
Roman Eclecticism and The Temple of Dendur Jacob Ritts The Temple of Dendur was originally built in 15 BCE along the left bank of the upper part of the Nile river. It was constructed by Petronius, the Roman governor of Egypt and commissioned by Augustus Caesar. While the was funded by Roman authority it was designed by a team of Roman and Egyptian architects and built by Egyptian workers. An important thing to realize about The Temple of Dendur while considering it from a historical perspective is that it was not a very important temple. It’s main function was to assert Augustus’s position as a god to people in smaller, less populated areas of Egypt so small temple like this were commissioned in multiple villages.
The term kouros translates to boy in Ancient Greek . The metropolitan Kouros is one of many kouros statues, as they were very popular in Greece to use in tombs. Many of the kouros statues are similar, another well known is the Getty Kouros, which in my opinion looks more developed and possibly depicting an older boy. As for the Metropolitan Kouros, the medium used is solid marble, and there is no certainty of who crafted the piece. The statue is that of a nude young man striding forward.
Contrast and Comparison Between Plate of Dionysus and the Stela of Horus It is said that a picture paints a thousand words. Logically, then, a three dimensional object must evoke words beyond limitation and capture emotions that only the sculptor himself would have expressed. This seems to be the case in both the Plate of Dionysus of the Sasanian period and the Stela of Horus from Ancient Egypt. As they each embody the artistic era of their time, their influences can be seen in one and in the other. Both artifacts are tributes to the gods of their respective cultures, and they have certain commonalities yet they also have their own differences.
Minoan art used much of schematic style, which is mostly using human figures in a painting. Egyptians also used human figures in much of their art which is a forum of schematic styling. Until nearly 1500 BCE, art was comprised of mostly pottery and carvings. ‘The Palace Period” followed after 1500 BCE where Egyptians soon started painting on walls in tunnels, palaces, and barrier walls. Minoan art shows much of a natural and subtlety look unlike the ,majority of Egyptian art.
Greek music includes the lyre, pipes, and singing, and around 500 BC gradually developed branches like Greek plays (which always involved music) and Greek philosophy, which tried to figure out how music and numbers related to each other. Architecture includes houses, religious buildings like temples and tombs, and public building like city walls, theaters, stadia, and stoas. Sculpture includes small figurines and life-size statues, but also relief sculptures which were on the sides of buildings, and also tombstones. We have very little Greek painting from the Classical period; most of what we have is from the Bronze Age. The paintings were painted on walls, as decoration for rooms, like murals or wallpaper.
They also used native copper, silver and gold for metalworking, in which they used very advanced methods. The period between 250 CE and 650 CE was a time of intense flourishing of Maya civilized accomplishments. While the many Mayans city-states never achieved political unity on the order of the central Mexican civilizations, they exerted a tremendous intellectual influence upon Mexico and Central America. The Mayans built some of the most elaborate cities on the continent, and made innovations in mathematics, astronomy, and calendrics. The Mayans also evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas using pictographs and syllabic elements in the form of texts and codices inscribed on stone, pottery, wood, or highly perishable books made from bark paper.
The principal forms of religious architecture were open-air altars, temples, and treasuries. The altar, the earliest religious structure, always served as the focus of prayer and sacrifices. The temple, which developed in the 8th century BC, housed the statue of a god or goddess to whom the sanctuary was dedicated. The treasury, a small temple-like building, held offerings to gods and goddesses made by city-states and their citizens at sanctuaries such as Olympia and Delphi. Other important public structures were not religious in function.
Today there are 118 elements on the periodic table; Mendeleev’s version had only 63 elements on it. The first scientific discovery of an element was phosphorous. Other Metals is a group that consists of 7 elements. Other metals are special because unlike transition metals the other metals don’t exhibit a variable oxidation state. They are also solid and have a high density, they
Most of these were located in royal courts. (52) The primary focus in ancient Greek sculptures was the human body. Many of these statues were also nude. The Greeks were one of the first societies to focus on nude humans as the subjects for their work. They were attempting to portray man in what they believed was the image of their gods.