Account for the centrality of ancient sculpture to the canon of art in Western Europe between the Renaissance and the early nineteenth century.
Title: Account for the centrality of ancient sculpture to the canon of art in Western Europe between the Renaissance and the early nineteenth century.
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Account for the centrality of ancient sculpture to the canon of art in Western Europe between the Renaissance and the early nineteenth century.
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 1338 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The sculptures of the Pantheon were often seen as the best examples of the 'high classical style' Greek art. They consisted of one long frieze, several square panels and two huge triangular compositions which were taken from the main temple of the goddess Athene in Athens built c550 BCE. However the Pantheon marbles did not arrive in the West until the first half of the nineteenth Century and although ancient sculpture was central to the …showed first 75 words of 1338 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1338 total…and its methods, Phaidon, pp 63-66 extracts from Bellori Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors & Architects 1672 Reader, p19-23 Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee On The Earl of Elgin's Collection of Marbles (1816) Works Dionysus and Ilissus plates 21 &32, pp46 &55, Academies, Museums & Canons of Art.
An Academy by Lamplight, Joseph Wright of Derby. Study Handbook 3, Colour Plate 15 Cesi Juno plate 14, pp36 Academies, Museums & Canons of Art.
