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Research Paper On Leonardo Da Aphrodite

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The Louvre, located in the famous Paris, France, is home to the world’s most historic and famous pieces of art. It is a destination that I hope to experience before my life is over and I’m sure a large majority of people feel the same way. For this assignment, I choose the most famous and remembered pieces of art known to mankind. Those would be the Mona Lisa, painted by the one and only Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci a.k.a Leonardo Da Vinci, and the sculpture of Aphrodite, sculpted by Praxiteles. The Mona Lisa started in Florence roughly around 1503 and is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, hence the alternative and less known title, La Gioconda. However, Da …show more content…

The statue reflects the sculptural research of the late Hellenistic Period: classical in essence, with innovatory features such as the spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the fall of the drapery over the hips. Aphrodite, or also known as The Venus de Milo was discovered not too long ago in 1820 on the island of Melos, Milo in modern Greek, located in the south-western Cyclades. The Marquis de Rivière presented it to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre the following year and the statue won instant and lasting fame. “Essentially two blocks of marble, it is comprised of several parts which were sculpted separately, bust, legs, left arm and foot, then fixed with vertical pegs, a technique which was fairly common in the Greek world, especially in the Cyclades, where this work was produced around 100 BC (Louvre).” The goddess originally wore metal jewelry, a bracelet, a pair of earrings, and a headband, of which only the fixation holes remain and the marble may have been embellished with, obviously now faded, polychromy. Sadly, the arms were never found, leaving her in her iconic fashion, a figure with broken

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