Fontana DI Trevi is known as the largest fountain and also known as the world ‘s most famous fountain in Rome’s. The total height of Trevi Fountain is about 25.9 meters (85 feet), and the total width is 19.8 meters (65 feet), is the largest global of Baroque fountain. Trevi Fountain was completed in 1762. The builder who builds this fountain is the eighteen – century whose name as Nicolo Salvi. He spent thirty years to complete this fountain. It's located in the center of Rome, so the “Trevi” is the meaning of the three ways. And also “Trevi” can be “Trevio”, because three roads was in one place. The Trevi Fountain represented the one of the symbols of Rome. This fountain is using the returned back of victory of the Neptune as a theme. Beside of the Neptune had two different Mermen is pulled by two horses. The water of the fountain is represented life and healthy.
This Trevi Fountain was built in the 15th century to commemorate the ending destination of the Aqua Virgo. This unique Trevi Fountain has a long history. This majestic sculpture was taking about the story of Neptune, and the background of the fountain was a Sea Shrine. Its come back from the Roman times and it was the destination of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct customized by Augustus, the purpose to build this aqueduct is to lead the water to the thermal baths. The water that’s flowing on the rock has two names which are Virgin Water and Trevi. Virgin Water referring to an old Rome legend about a Rome virgin lady who met the thirsty and tired soldiers and she showed the source of the spring to some of the thirsty soldiers.That source was in the Ager Locullanus, the land between the Tiburtina road and the Collatina road, two of the many roads that led to Rome.The water unt...
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...eatures do not only add symbolic meaning to the fountain with the contrast in their mood and poses, but they also provide a symmetrical balance. Visitors to the Trevi Fountain will also see a statue of a woman in the niches on either side of Neptune. The left one carries a satchel full of fruit, representing abundance. The other one lets a snake drink water from her cup, represents salubrity. Together they are said to represent different aspects of the sea. The upper levels of the fountain show several long inscriptions. They are all written in Latin and celebrates the ones responsible for the construction. A traditional legend holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome. A modern interpretation is that throwing two coins into the water coins will lead to a new romance and three will ensure either a marriage or divorce.
La Pietà of Giovanni Della Robbia is amazing religious glazed and painted terracotta dated 1510-1520. It was mainly intended to introduce the meaning of the Bible story to large and mainly illiterate audiences. One of the things that this image can tell us about life in western civilization is how much the artists were focused on translating the bible and trying to understand it without the help of the Catholic Church through art and humanism. La Pietà is one of the richest and best known collections of Della Robbia sculptures at the springtime of the renaissance. The creator of the sculpture is Giovanni Della Robbia; the first and epic of a dynasty of important pottery artists, decorators, potters, and terracotta workers. Della Robbia developed a unique pottery glaze that made his creations much more durable in the outdoors and therefore much suitable for use on the exterior of buildings. This was an extraordinarily formal and refined technique that immediately met with great success, so much so that the Della Robbia family’s work flourished for over one hundred years. It uniquely combines archaeometric and stylistic time-related information about the renaissance age in Western Civilization. In its context, La Pietà was created in the 15th century, the renaissance age , when there was a surge in artistic, literary, and scientific activity , especially in Florence, the third largest city in Europe, an independent republic where the Italian Renaissance began, and a banking and commercial capital after London and Constantinople. The renaissance era when this sculptured was created was also marked by few major events such as: religious problems in church, Erasmus publishing Greek edition of the New Treatment ...
Through their superstitious beliefs, devout religious convictions, and established customs the severity of the collective conventionality of the inhabitants of Valle del Sole in Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints is evident and crucial to the ruination of Cristina Innocente. The people of the town have proven themselves to be incredibly superstitious, irrationally believing in things such as the “evil eye” to prove ________________. In addition to their superstitions, their exceedingly pious beliefs further their condemnation of Cristina, casting her out in the eyes of God. The citizens of Valle del Sole also denounce Cristina for her lack of regard to the very specific roles and responsibilities within their
The Greek side elucidates the historical meaning of the libation. The Old Indic side of the watershed reveals the beginning of the religious significance.
In the book the memory palace of Matteo Ricci, the author Jonathan Spence talks about the Italian preacher Matteo Ricci who spent almost his whole life in China. Spence tries to describe a person who was determined and underwent many difficulties in preaching but never lost his faith in establishing Christian faith among Chinese people by using the memory palace. He divided the book into nine chapters. Despite the preface and the summary of the memory palace, each chapter contains an image or picture which is used for introduction of each chapter. In this way, Spence uses these images and pictures to help the reader build their own memory palace of this book which also well-illustrated the memory method that Matteo Ricci had used – the memory palace. According to Brook (p.831), a memory palace is “a mnemonic method that was popular with sixteenth-century Jesuits for retaining in memory.”
This piece of art really impressed me. I can’t stress enough how realistic the painting is. One can see what was going on that day in Venice. Like is said that a photograph is worth a 1,000 words this painting is a photograph for its time. My interpretation of the art work was for Canal to show daily life in his city of Venice, Italy. Using the building in the foreground to the right still stands in Venice, Italy and is called the Palazzo Ducale. Giovanni Antonio Canal responded to his historical context by taking a “picture” for future generations to view, look at, admire and ponder upon
In the Ancient Middle East, the Roman time periods brought about many different works of art. The Votive Statue of Gudea, an Ancient Near Eastern work, and the Augustus of Primaporta, a Roman work, are good representations of art from their respective time periods. The two works have many similarities and differences within their formal elements, iconography, and historical significance to the time periods in which they were crafted. The Votive Statue of Gudea and the Augustus of Primaporta have similar formal elements through their subjects and differ through their styles and size. The Votive Statue of Gudea is a statue of Gudea, a ruler in the Ancient Near East.
Water symbolizes purity in this poem with lines 5-6, “The blue swirls of heart on your shoulder” (Addonizio 5-6). The speaker knows exactly where these blue swirls of water are at, on his shoulder close to her lover’s heart. Andri Hermawan has similar insight to these lines as well, stating: “ The word water stands for a symbol which relates to her boyfriend’s love as its object. In Kim Addonizio’s poem, the meaning of the word water is pure love. In “First Poem for You” Kim Addonizio knows that just above his shoulder are the blue swirls of water ” (Hermawan 28). Hermawan also describes how the partner’s lightning tattoo symbolizes the power of love. The lightning bolt is almost like a heartbeat; with lines moving up and down, such as when a person’s heart rate increases and decreases when nervous or excited (Hermawan 26). Another tattoo described in details is the “serpent facing the dragon” ( Addonizio 6). The serpent is a symbol of fearlessness; this tattoo shows the speaker’s partner is not afraid of what is to come in life, including the future of their relationship (Addonizio
Travertine TRAVERTINE is a form of massive calcium carbonate, CaCO3 resulting from deposition by springs or rivers. It is often beautifully colored and banded as a result of the presence of iron compounds or other (e.g., organic) impurities. This material is variously known as calc-sinter and calcareous tufa and (when used for decorative purposes) as onyx marble, Mexican onyx, and Egyptian or Oriental alabaster. Travertine is generally less coarse-grained and takes a higher polish than stalactite and stalagmite, which are similar in chemical composition and origin. Travertine, the stone of the Colosseum and St. Peters as well as of several structures in New York and Philadelphia, is not a volcanic tufa but calcareous sediment that was deposited on the ground by the hot springs that first began to flow during the earliest eruptions of the Alban volcanoes. The best quality, in fact the only reliable one in Latium, is that which is found between Bagni and the Sabine hills below Tivoli. Lanciani, who has fascinatingly described the quarries there, estimated that five and a half million cubic meters of stone had been extracted from the ancient quarry alone. And yet, because of its position under a flat grass-grown plain, the Romans did not discover the existence of this remarkable stone till after the middle of the second century B. C.; and even after that they failed for a century to develop a system of extracting the stone in a sufficiently easy way to make the extensive use of it practicable. In the later decades of the second century B. C. it displaced peperino for inscriptional monuments for obvious reasons. Its employment in large structures cannot with certainty be posited before the construction of the Mulvian bridge in 109,...
Without its proximity to trade the settlement may have never grown to be quite as influential. Furthermore, the river became an important boundary for the city. This led to it being featured in several battles and becoming a focal point in exemplary stories of bravery and self-sacrifice. The tiber was a constant in ancient Rome, from the lore surrounding its founding, to its role in trade, and to the values and morals characterized by figures such as Horatius. The river was highly symbolic of Roman values and contributed greatly to the growth of the city’s power and
It also symbolizes how lives pressures or personal issues can get in your way and prevent someone from succeeding. The reflecting pool at the bottom of the columns add a wonderment affect to the sculpture. Light is constantly changing reflecting and refracting off of the water and on to the sculpture, an effect that seemingly adds additional dimensions to the piece. Even the fact that Lutgert Hall behind the sculpture is much larger and boisterous, it
Have you ever felt insignificant while standing in front of a monumental building that you have seen in small images of your history book? No one could imagine the atmosphere and physical beauty inside the most beautiful structures in the world, the Pantheon and the Florence cathedral. While sitting at the fountain in front of the Pantheon, one can see the huge columns rising towards the entablature and the walls curving behind to form a cylinder. Although the exterior of the pantheon could look majestic, the interior is just as breathtaking. The first thing someone does when they enter the Pantheon is to look up at the coffered dome and the oculus. The important feature that seemed impossible to have been built during the time that the Pantheon
The Broadway Fountain is a historical, artistic structure, originally designed by J. P. Victor Andre, which holds great value to the city of Madison, Indiana. Its extensive history contributes to its profound value and appreciation by many. Due to its restorations, the Broadway Fountain is expected to last for years to come.
...tures are built in the attempt to be noticed for their cultural significance but not as a main religious gathering place, and they both have spacious ambulatories for flow of spectators. Now in contrast of the two monuments, the pair have differences in their imagery, exterior as well as added spacing. The Dome of the Rock has mosaics on its exterior and interior and the mosaics are non representational. The overall shape of the temple is simply a dome on a octagonal base. However, San Vitale has multiple images of figures and animals but excludes it to only its interior. In addition, unlike the Dome of the Rock, its floor plan consists of a narthax, two towers, an apse and two chapels. By studying these monuments, it is possible to understand the importance of religious or cultural imagery as well as limiting materials for construction in these distinctive areas.
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