Aspects of Garden Statuary in Archaic Greece
Aspects of Garden Statuary in Archaic Greece Archaic Greeks were known for providing the first freestanding statuary; up until then, most carvings were constructed out of walls and pillars as reliefs. Most of the freestanding statues were of youthful, winsome male or female (kore) Greeks and are called kouros figures. The kouroi were seen by the Greeks to typify beauty and were sculpted with one foot leading and an uncompromising rigidity to their forward-facing poses; the male statues were always strapping, brawny, and undressing. Around 650 BC, life-size variations of the kouroi began to be observed. The Archaic period was tumultuous for the Greeks as they progressed into more polished forms of government and art, and obtained more information about the peoples and cultures outside of Greece. Battles like The Arcadian wars, the Spartan invasion of Samos, and other wars involving city-states are indicatory of the tumultuous nature of the time, which was similar to other periods of historical upset. However, these conflicts did not significantly hinder the advancement of the Greek civilization.
Bernini’s Early Italian Fountains
Bernini’s Early Italian Fountains
One can see Bernini's earliest masterpiece, the Barcaccia water fountain, at the bottom of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. This area is still filled with Roman locals and visitors who like to exchanging gossip or going over the day's news. Today, the city streets surrounding Bernini's fountain are a trendy place where people go to gather, something which the artist would have been pleased to learn. The master's very first fountain of his professional life was built at around 1630 at the behest of Pope Urbano VIII. Illustrated in the fountain's design is a large ship gradually sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. The great flooding of the Tevere that blanketed the whole region with water in the 16th was memorialized by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this time. In 1665, France was graced by Bernini's only prolonged journey outside of Italy.
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