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Sculptures From The Egyptian Era II. Roman Sculptures

Egyptian sculptures used symbolic elements like hieroglyphics and relative size to represent gods and important figures. Common materials included wood, ivory and stone. Sculptures were arranged in horizontal lines and showed gods as larger composites and kings larger than followers. Reliefs filled empty spaces with figures and hieroglyphics. Roman sculptures focused on reliefs for triumphal columns with continuous narratives. Most were made of terra-cotta rather than competing with Greek sculptures. Byzantine sculptures had religious and nature themes, using animals and acrostic signs symbolically.

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Sculptures From The Egyptian Era II. Roman Sculptures

Egyptian sculptures used symbolic elements like hieroglyphics and relative size to represent gods and important figures. Common materials included wood, ivory and stone. Sculptures were arranged in horizontal lines and showed gods as larger composites and kings larger than followers. Reliefs filled empty spaces with figures and hieroglyphics. Roman sculptures focused on reliefs for triumphal columns with continuous narratives. Most were made of terra-cotta rather than competing with Greek sculptures. Byzantine sculptures had religious and nature themes, using animals and acrostic signs symbolically.

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Sculptures from the Egyptian Era

II. Roman Sculptures


Symbolic elements were widely used such as forms, hieroglyphics, relative size, location, Most Roman sculptures are made of monumental terra-cotta. They did not attempt to compete with the
materials, color, actions and gestures. Their tombs required the most extensive used of sculpture. free standing Greek works of history or mythology but rather they produced reliefs in the Great Roman
The most common materials used for sculptures are wood, ivory and stones. triumphal columns with continuous narrative reliefs around.

III. Byzantine Sculptures


The dominant themes in Byzantine sculptures are religious, everyday life scenes, and motifs from
Characteristics of the Egyptian sculptures: nature.
1. Symbolisms were heavily used to represent the gods. They were represented as composite creature Animals were used as symbols (dove, deer, peafowl) while some had acrostic signs (form of writing in
with animal heads on human bodies which taking the first letter; syllable or word of different lines and putting them together it can be read a
2. Relief compositions were arranged in horizontal lines to record an event or represent an action. message) that contained a great theological significance.
3. Most of the time the gods were shown larger than humans, the kings larger than their followers, the
dead larger than the living.
4. Empty space were filled with figures or hieroglyphics
5. All individual components were all brought to the plane of representation and laid out like writing

IV . Romanesque Sculptures
Sculptures from the Classical Period Some of the famous sculptural pieces are reliquaries, altar frontals, crucifixes, and devotional images.
Small individual works of art were generally made of costly materials for royal and aristocratic patrons.
These lightweight devotional images were usually carried in the processions both inside and outside the
I. Greek Sculptures churches
Early Greek sculptures were tense and stiff, their bodies were hidden within enfolding robes.After three Gothic Sculptures
centuries of experiments, Greek sculptures had finally evolved and showed all the points of human Gothic sculptureshave a greater freedom of style. They no longer lay closely against the wall, but begun
anatomy and proportion. to project outward.Figures were given their own particular attitudes instead of being set into particular
One of the most popular styles of the greek sculptures was the Hellenistic style. Hellenistic denotes patterns and are more lively and realistic.
a preference in sculpture for more elaborated patterns, mannered arrangement of figures and groups,

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