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Analysis Of The Book ' The Broken Nose '

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Guanyu Chen TA: Lindsay Broken but attractive I spent a lot of time wandering in Art History Museum trying to decide on an artwork to expand on a paper but the wandering seemed effortless because every one of them could light up my curiosity. In the end I chose a sculpture of a man with a broken nose because though it didn’t impress me as much as other artworks did with its beauty, it was unique in the way that it is not perfect. This broken nose belongs to St. Christopher, who is considered the patron saint of travel for once carrying the young Jesus across a river. Based on my observation, it is hard to tell whether the broken is caused by human or accident, but I can safely conclude that St. Christopher is damaged in many different ways. The left front part of the broken nose seems to be chopped off by a hard object( could be a knife or stone). The broken part could also result from the whole sculpture falling on its face and the nose heavily bumping into a hard ground. But I would doubt that because due to the dimension of this sculpture, the beard would also touch the ground if the nose were to but the beard has shown little sign of serious damage. Besides the broken nose, another obvious broken part of St. Christopher is the hand of his right arm. The hand is completely chopped off from the wrist so all we can see at the end of the arm is a column of clothes that covers the arm. We can say someone did this intentionally because it is precisely the hand that

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