I chose to visit the Minneapolis Institute of Art because I was told by others that this place had a large quantity of Greek artifacts to choose from. I have never been to an art museum before, it was very interesting, also interesting for my kids to explore a whole new world. The one sculpture that caught my eye was the Ganymede and the Eagle. I wanted to know the whole story behind this sculpture because just by looking at it; you couldn’t really tell what was going on between the two objects in the sculpture. The individual who designed this sculpture was a Danish artist; his name is Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen. The Ganymede and the Eagle were created from 1817 – 1829 in Europe, Denmark. Bertel Thorvaldsen, also spelled Thorwaldsen was …show more content…
Almost a comfort-like appearance and the nature of the group and is a mark of Thorvaldsen’s extreme mastery of a line, which he skilled to perfection. Made in Camarra marble, it is the 19th century style. The various versions of what Bertel has presented of the figure Ganymede is offering the drinking cup (1804) and the Ganymede filling the cup (1816) the work of the 1817 sculpture shows him as a kneeling figure serving water to the eagle. There are a few ancient rumors on how Ganymede, who is the son of King Tros, and was the most delightful of all youths, Ganymede was chosen by the gods of Zeus’s cupbearer. The father of the gods covered himself in eagle feathers and hunted out the youth on the Plain of Troy in order to draw him away from Olympus. The eagle dropped from the sky; Ganymede offers him his drinking cup, and the disguised Olympus god dips his beak into the bowl. As a sign of his origin, the youth wears the Phrygian cap and holds a jug in his right hand. (Web Gallery of Art) The precision detail of this sculpture is a boy and an eagle, which are carved from two separate black of marble. Thorvaldsen’s mastery of art can be seen in the details of which the two figures are pieced together. The cup that Ganymede is holding in his hand is casted …show more content…
Me only cruel immortality Consumes; I wither slowly in thine arms.” Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream The ever-silent spaces of the East, Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn. (Tithonus, Poets.org) Ganymede was known for his beauty; he was a Trojan prince in the Greek era. According to another tale, Zeus turned himself into an eagle and kidnapped Ganymede and lured him into Mount Olympus. Ganymede’s father was weeping for his son, so in turn Zeus had delivered two horses so swift that they could run over water. Tros was completely satisfied that son will have a noble stand. “The theme of the father recurs in many of the Greek coming of age myths of male love, suggesting the relationship to be symbolized by these stories that took place with the consent of the father.” (Aquarius, the Gay Constellation) Most of the gods were comfortable with Ganymede, in the exception of Hera, who was feeling awfully jealous. Hera was the wife and one of the three sisters of Zeus in the Greek Mythology and religion. Her leading function was the goddess of women and marriage. “Zeus eventually turned Ganymede into a constellation which is known as Aquarious (the water-bearer) in the sky, even to this day it is still linked with that of the Eagle (Aquila).” (Myth
Sculpture is a medium that artists in ancient Greek commonly used to express spoken truths in an unspoken form. Every piece of ancient Greek sculpture has more than what the eye sees to explain the story behind the [in this case] marble.
There is no doubt in mythology that the king of gods, Zeus, is the most supreme and powerful, ruling the sky. He controls the thunderbolt, a symbol of power feared by both gods and mortals. The Greeks and Romans honored Zeus above all other gods. He is without mistake, the god of all gods. Their stories of Zeus are plenty; his designs have molded mythology from his birth. Zeus' victory in outwitting his intelligent wife, Metis, by swallowing her pregnant, was the gateway used by the Greeks and Romans to show Zeus as the greatest god to come since his father and grandfather. However, as the stories of the gods and goddesses unfold, the Greeks and Roman's interpretation of Zeus' characteristics are different. Zeus is always upheld as the king of gods, but his other personal attributes to his godly rein are conflicting. Zeus' characteristics of fearfulness of female deities, cunningness and use of trickery, and lust in Ovid's Metamorphoses compared to the Theogony are opposed due to Hesiod's true respect of Zeus versus Ovid's lack of respect of Jupiter in Roman mythology.
Charles Champoiseau uncovered pieces of masterfully worked Parian marble in April of 1863.1 On Samothraki, the island from which Poseidon is said to have watched the fall of Troy, these segments of stone came together to form four main sections: a torso, a headless bust, a section of drapery, and a wing.2 The sections were shaped to be assembled though the use of cantilevering and metal dowels, allowing the sculptor to extend beyond medium’s gravitational limitations (fig. 2). Just one year later, the pieces were assembled (and those missing were remodeled), and the Greek goddess Nike was revealed at the Louvre.
Zeus’ marriages to Demeter, Leto and Hera yield the gods and goddeses familiar to the Greek world, Persephone, Apollo, Artemis, Hebe, Ares and Eileithyia, and he himself eventually bears Athena (912-24). These are not elements of good rule, but simply the gods of the Greek polis. Demeter and Persephone are worshipped for agriculture, Apollo for his oracular shrine, Artemis for the wilderness and young women, Ares for war. Poseidon as sea god is apart from the polis, but he sires the fearsome Triton (931). Likewise, Ares’ children Phobos and Deimos, two aspects of fear, delineate realms beyond the proper bounds of the polis. Maia bears for Zeus Hermes (938-9), who as herald of the gods moves between realms, between one polis and another.
Zeus needs no introduction, as the Greek mythological god of the sky his name and tales are known throughout the world. Born from Cronus his father and Rhea his mother Zeus was the sixth son of the two. After Cronus ate his first five children Rhea gathered the strength to save her next child which was Zeus. Rhea tricked Cronus in to eating a stone by rapping it up in a swaddle of cloths instead of her new born; she sent her child to the island of Crete to Mt. Dikte where he was raised by a goatee. As Zeus matured to a young adult he became strong and made his father Cronus throw his siblings up. His five sibling concluded of Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. The siblings shared rule of the world; the most known gods are Zeus whom made himself ruler of the sky, Poseidon who was given the sea and Hades was handed the Underworld. As the sky god Zeus acquired powers, responsibilities, and other perks; powers that included his weapons the lightning bolt, and the power to morph into man and animal, his reasonability to look over man enabled him to observe people in time of war and in their most personal of times. As a sky god Zeus was expected enrich the mortal chain; that lead him to have many loves and affairs.
As the wife of zeus, Hera is the queen of all gods and the goddess of marriage. Her parents were titans and her father did try to destroy Hera and her siblings, but her younger brother set them free. Also, Hera, in fact, is zeus’s sister and his wife. Because of this, Hera had three children, or three olympians. Hera is also a harsh goddess, and for those who displeased her, she would send them her wrath.
Hera was the wife and sister of Zeus, and the High Goddess of the Greeks. She was extremely jealous of the affairs that her husband was having and often tormented or harmed the mistresses he was fooling around with. Although, when she went too far, or tried to cause death, Zeus would intervene and stop her. Hera tried to ship wreak Hercules on his return from Troy, and with that Zeus had her hung by the wrists from top of the mountain with an anvil tied to each ankle. The two had four children together. Juno,
Hephaestus's mother was Hera, the god of marriage and the queen of all the gods. Zeus, the god of Heaven and the king of all gods, was his father. It is rumored that Hera gave birth to Hephaestus without Zeus's assistance because she was angry at him for giving birth to Athena through his head without her assistance. Zeus and Hera were some of the first Olympian gods that overpowered their parents and began their rule over Heaven and the other gods. Hephaestus's sister, Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, was born from Zeus's head because Gaia said his son (Even though Athena turned out to be a girl) would overthrow him once he was born. Zeus swallowed Athena before she was born so that she would be unable to overpower him, but Hephaestus used an ax to bust open Zeus's head and allow Athena to be born. Zeus and Hera had many other children besides Athena and Hephaestus. Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, was Hephaestus's wife. Zeus forced Aphrodite to marry Hephaestus in exchange for Hera's freedom from the throne he made for her that imprisoned her. Later, Aphrodite ended up cheating on Hephaestus by getting with Ares. Some say that Hephaestus and Aphrodite divorced afterward.
Hephaestus, was one of the twelve Greek Gods, the lame God of blacksmiths, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanos. He is symbolised with a hammer, anvil, or a pair of tongs. As stated in Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, he is the son of Zeus, the king of gods, and Hera, the goddess of women and marriage. Contradicting that, according to Hesiod Hera had Hephaestus alone; because she was jealous that Zeus bred Aphrodite by himself. Hera reportedly after Hephaestus was born threw him off Mount. Olympus because he was ugly, when he fell Hephaestus broke both his legs, leaving him crippled. He fell into the ocean and was brought up by Thetis and Eurynome, the goddesses of the sea. Hephaestus never forgave Hera. As revenge he fashioned
The trip to the metropolitan museum was a great trip to learn and to study art. What is art you may ask, well art is an expression you use to show a visual picture. It can be through painting or through sculptures. Some other example of art is music, literature and dancing. For today 's paper we will be talking about art as a sculpture. The two sculptures in this photo are King Sahure and a Nome God and Marble Statue of Dionysos leaning on archaistic female figure (Hope Dionysos). You can find these statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. King Sahure and a Nome God is an Egyptian art that was made in 2458-2446 BCE. The artist is unknown. It was during the 5th dynasty and it also belong to the old kingdom. The Marble statue of Dionysos Leaning in the archaistic female figure is a Greco-Roman art. Belonging to the Roman imperial period of the late first century A.D. Augustan or Julio-Claudian period 27 B.C., to 68 AD. It is classified as a stone sculpture and it is made out of marble. The height of the statues is 82 ¾ inches. There is no evidence who was the original artist.
Sculpture has been a very important part of art history throughout thousands of years. For the past few months I have viewed many different kinds of sculpture, including Greek archaic sculptures, Greek classical sculptures, Greek Hellenistic sculptures and Roman sculptures. All of the sculptures that I have seen and analyzed have very interesting characteristics, but the one that I have analyzed most recently was the most fascinating. Hermes carrying the infant Dionysos, by the artist Praxiteles, was sculpted circa 350 B.C., and the copy that I analyzed, circa second century B.C. This sculpture was from the Greek classical period and is originally from Greece. The original can be seen in the Olympia Museum in Greece, and the replica that I have viewed is in the Sojourner Truth Library on SUNY New Paltz campus.
The sarcophagus was on display in gallery 162, which was my favorite gallery. All of the sculptures in this gallery were Roman, but based on Greek or Hellenistic people or myths. This particular sarcophagus, according to the description, was dedicated to a woman named Arria who passed away when she was fifty years old. It was made approximately in the early 3rd century A.D. and was discovered at Ostia, Italy in 1825. It was beautifully made and finely detailed, which is a major reason for why I loved it so much. Also, the myth of Selene and Endymion is one of my favorites. Selene was the Titan goddess of the moon. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, Theia gave birth to her along with Helios, Eos, and Dawn. She fell in love with Endymion, who was a beautiful young shepherd. She wanted him to live forever and never leave her, but she then realized he could not be made...
The goddesses such as Hera, Thetis and Athene are strong, powerful, and elegant. Aside from powerful, in Iliad the goddess Hera represents a nurturing and motherly side, and Homer writes, “I have come down to stay your anger but will you obey me? from the sky; and the goddess of the white arms Hera sent me, who loves both of you equally in her heart and cares for you” (7). In the Odyssey we have the two goddesses, Calypso and Circe whom Odysseus has extended affairs with and they are beautiful and embraced sexuality. Calypso had an egocentric and dominative character because she wanted Odysseus as her immortal husband (Bauschatz, 22). Women gods in the Odyssey and Iliad are elegant, strong, and wise while mortal women are property and subordinate as written in Hesiod’s Works and
Hera, is the goddess of family and marriage. She is married to Zeus. Her Roman aspect is Juno. Durin...
What makes the depiction between Athena and Aphrodite interesting is the different ways they are portrayed even sharing the similarity of being born strictly from male only. Athena from the all-powerful king of the gods Zeus and Aphrodite from Ouronos. Though they were both born from man alone, the content of these births caused Athena to be expressed in a more dignified, respected, and superior way. Hesiod’s recount of the births of Athena and Aphrodite in his Theogony reveals the source of Athena’s superiority. According to the Theogony, Ouranos’ genitals are thrown into the sea where they mix with the sea foam to result in Aphrodite (Hesiod 180-192). Aphrodite is said to be called, by Hesiod, “Philommedes, fond of a man’s genitals” ( Hesiod, 200-201). In contrast, Hesiod writes that Athena is born from Zeus’ head (Hesiod 924) after Zeus consumes her mother Metis, the goddess whose name means wisdom, for fear of her giving birth to someone who was destined to be his match in wisdom (Hesiod 894-900).