Bronze Essays

The Benin bronzes, which are a large collection of sculptures, have caused much controversy in the Art as well as Anthropology worlds and have created widely circulated discussion throughout Europe. This is because of their importance, as not only displays of unique craftsmanship, but also as pieces of anthropological significance. The bronzes were from the West African kingdom of Benin which was situated by the river Niger, and around 2,400 objects were discovered and looted during the Punitive

The Iron Age (1200 – 1 BC) followed the Bronze Age in the three-tiered classification system of ancient civilizations described by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen: the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. A thousand years before ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, iron making emerged to change the landscape of civilization. This dark metal changed everything from agriculture to wars and weaponry. In West Africa and Southwestern Asia people realized dark rocks could be shaped into tools and weapons (1500

period of Greek art and culture, many artists began to attempt at making art in which used organic shapes and human bodies. The Boxer at Rest is one of many sculptures created during the Hellenistic period by Apollonius. The sculpture is made of bronze and has carved in copper to shown the facial detail. This sculpture displays an ancient Greek boxer post boxing fight. You can tell the boxer just had a boxing match because of the damage he has received in his face. The sculptor makes it very clear

In 1957, the Loop Synagogue, designed by architectural firms, Loebl and Schlossman & Bennett, became a religious landmark amidst a typically urban setting. Additionally, the building became one of the first to be completed within Richard J. Daley’s 21-year office as Mayor of Chicago. One of the most noticeable properties of the building’s exterior and interior is its lack of symmetry and unity. While the layout doesn’t draw attention towards the center or towards a specific type of material used

The Bronze Age took place in Mesopotamia from 3300 to 1300 BCE. The Bronze Age is known for the introduction of bronze into everyday society to build tools, weapons, and jewelry. The Bronze age is also known for bronze becoming a prominent part of life, cities growing, trade increase, and strong religious values. During the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia, religion played a key role in social structure and the success of communities. Rulers of city-states were chosen by the gods, and priests were high

years old bronzes Zihan Zhong In this gallery, viewers will get a basic knowledge of different kind of patterns on the bronzes in the Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties and their meaning with real examples in front of them. In the thousands of years of Chinese history, bronze is one of the most important material. In about 19th century BCE, China enters the era of Bronze and in the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, its development enters the heyday stage. The manufactured bronzes had a wide

In Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man influences from Ellison’s personal interest and passion for art and sculpture have become the dominions for the narrator’s perception of power and disillusionment. As the narrator partakes in his own self-discovery of his invisibility, art is often present to describe the mindset and ideas at the time of the narrator. Elements such as sculptures and museum settings are implemented into the novel; together they landmark the different stages of transformation

Throughout “The Bronze Horseman”, Pushkin used symbolism. The river Neva, Peter the Great, his statue, and even Evgeny are all hold another meaning. The use of symbolism in ”The Bronze Horseman” was vital to the poem. Without symbolism, the poem is simply about a man losing his mind in St. Petersburg. The river Neva causes the flood in “The Bronze Horseman”. Water has historically held symbolic meanings. It is said that water symbolizes rebirth and change (“Water”, Dictionary of Symbolism.) The

Ting Ting Chen Ms. Firdman Global Period 7 Metropolitan Museum of Art Extra Credit I visited the Greek and Roman Art gallery. The artifact I chose was a nearly complete bronze shield. The time period that my artifact belongs to is the Hellenistic age (more specifically, the first half of the third century BC). The Hellenistic period allowed for Greek culture, tradition, and language to disseminate beyond Greece and into the world. Alexander’s conquests opened the floodgates for the spread

correct. Following his footsteps, Sir Arthur Evans excavated in Crete and found the palace of Minos at Cnossus; this is now known as the Bronze Age civilization. The Bronze Age is known as Minoan in Crete, Cycladic in the Islands, and Helladic in Greece. The Early Bronze Age is dated 3000-2000 B.C.; the Middle 2000-1600 B.C.; the Late 1600-1100 B.C. The Late Bronze Age or Late Helladic is also known as the Mycenaean Age. The Minoan civilization, supplicated and wealthy, reached its peak from 1600

Ancient Egyptian bronze dagger that can be found in Thebes in the town of Abydos Upper Egypt at around 1600-1400 BC. Bronze weapons were made until after 2000 BC in Egypt, the common Egyptian daggers had a bronze blade and the handle consisted of gold, wood and alabaster material, the pummel of the dagger had the name of its pharaoh Ahmose I written in hieroglyph. The object was actually made in a sort of military factory in Abydos where they used bronze anvil to craft these fine weapons and each

relate to a future job as a camp counselor, including earning their Bronze Medallion. The Bronze Medallion is a lifeguarding certification that includes a timed distance swim, called the endurance swim at camp, along with training in various water-based injury scenarios, As I was never a particularly strong swimmer, I was understandably worried by the daily two hours of swimming mandated by the SC course, and the final exams for the Bronze Medallion, especially having ignored my brother’s recommendations

In the Greek section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art stands a Bronze Statue of a Man. The statue is from Greece and was made in the mid 2nd to 1st century BC. This date categorizes the piece as Hellenistic Greek in style. The man is seventy-three inches tall and his artist is unknown. The Bronze Statue of a Man depicts a man standing with one arm stretched forward. He is standing in elegant contrapposto; he is placing more weight into his back, left leg and slightly bending his right leg. His

1.) The bronze sculpture of David by Donatello is about 5' 2 1/4. Donatello is located in Museo Nazionale del Barello, Florence Italy. Donatello was made by various media from a lost-wax casting into bronze to carved marble and a polychrome wood. The marble sculpture of David by Michelangelo it about 17 feet tall that in not including his pedestal. Michelangelo is located in Galleria Dell' Academia located in Florence Italy. The Michelangelo's David is made of twenty colossal marble, each weighing

The concept of freedom constantly rings throughout the texts of Alexander Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman and Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat. These stories are both key elements of Russian literature and Russian history. During 19th century Russia, there was a prominent distinction that many peasants and people of lower class didn’t have the rights that the bourgeoisie potentially possessed. There are also freedoms that do reign on the main characters of these pieces as they go along in their respective

The Bronze Bow is a well written historical fiction novel by Elizabeth George Speare and my choice for the best book of the semester. Set in the time of Jesus in Galilee, the story follows Daniel as he begins his transformation from a bitter, hard-hearted, vengeful young man into a man of compassion and understanding for others. This book demonstrates that change is a process achieved over time and through experience. For Daniel, many of these experiences challenge his long-held beliefs and cause

of pottery pieces can tell a story about the history of civilizations, as well as aid historians in carbon dating. There are several periods of time in which ceramics can be identified and categorized into the three age system – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, with the Stone Age broken down into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. A significant time frame for ceramics was during the Neolithic Period (10,200 - 2000 BC). The neolithic period, also known as the new stone age,

For the Classical art sculpture (picture attached below), I decided to focus on the Bronze statue of Zeus. Zeus is portrayed as a naked Heroic God. His left arm and foot plunge towards the direction of his aim and his right arm is bent with his right foot also a little bend back. You can tell that Zeus would definitely be holding his trident. This statue is three-dimensional and makes a good example of anatomy. You can see clearly see a few of his body’s veins popping out and his muscles are also

Stone Age. The term “Stone Age” is the first part of Three Age System which is an outline for the study of the human past. The foundation of this outline is scientific: it orbits everywhere with the idea of three succeeding periods or ages: Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, individually age life technically more difficult than the one before it. This period of time there was no such thing as technology. So the people made tools out of stone to either hunt or cooking utensils. In this course, I have

Structural Welding Structural Welders work in the field of welding together structural components temporarily tacked into place beforehand. Welding can be traced back to ancient times. Some of the earliest examples come from the Bronze Age. Small circular boxes made of gold formed by pressure welding lap joints. These boxes are more than 2000 years old. Acetylenes discovery is credited to Edmund Davy from England(History of Welding). Today welding has many uses and the demand for welders is more