Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago" ¶ 5
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

bronze and casting
Indian Hindu artisans from the period of the Chola empire in Tamil Nadu, used bronze to create intricate statues via the lost wax casting method with ornate detailing depicting the Gods of Hinduism mostly, but also the lifestyle of the period.
* Viking Bronze – Ancient and Early Medieval bronze casting
From the scientific discovery which has been a silent evidence, it has pointed out that the South East Asian civilizations are a of much older civilization compared to the widely researched and well documented east Asians ' ancient civilisations Dong Son culture spread to Indonesia bringing with it techniques of wet-field rice cultivation, ritual buffalo sacrifice, bronze casting, megalithic practises, and ikat weaving methods.
Talos had one blood vessel which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by only one bronze nail ( as in metal casting by the lost wax method ).
* The Greeks develop an indirect lost wax process for casting bronze.
For many years, the design was attributed to Guglielmo and Bonanno Pisano, a well-known 12th-century resident artist of Pisa, famous for his bronze casting, particularly in the Pisa Duomo.
This system was later enhanced by pressing wooden blocks into sand and casting metal types from the depression in copper, bronze, iron or tin.
The techniques for bronze casting, used at the time for making coins ( as well as bells and statues ) were adapted to making metal type.
Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes.
They were still hunters, but had domesticated animals ; they were fairly skillful metallurgists, casting bronze in moulds of stone and clay, and they were also agriculturists, cultivating beans, the vine, wheat and flax.
The Shang are remembered for their bronze casting, noted for its clarity of detail.
The study of early Chinese bronze casting is a specialized field of art history.
Individually cast curved bronze plates square with turned in edges were joined together by rivets through holes formed during casting to form a series of rings.
The first record of an armoury for the manufacture of guns occurs in 1474, and by 1498 the master gunner Robert Borthwick was casting bronze guns at Edinburgh.
One of the rarest items in the collection is the 58 cm high Gloucester Candlestick, dated to c1110, made from gilt bronze ; with highly elaborate and intricate intertwining branches containing small figures and inscriptions, it is a tour de force of bronze casting.
Smaller scale works are displayed in the Gilbert Bayes gallery, covering medieval especially English alabaster sculpture, bronzes, wooden sculptures and has demonstrations of various techniques such as bronze casting using Lost-wax casting.
They also began reviving plastic arts such as bronze casting for sculpture, and used the classical naturalism as the foundation of drawing, painting and sculpture.
The cost of the granite base was raised through voluntary subscription, and the bronze casting of Lincoln was shipped from Philadelphia.
The excavation at Ban Chiang in 1974 / 75 was followed by an article by Chester Gorman and Pisit Charoenwongsa, claiming evidence for the earliest dates in the world for bronze casting and iron working.
He was defeated not by Jason, but by Medea casting a spell on Talos, causing him to remove the bronze nail from his ankle which kept the ichor inside.
Other findings included Scythian burial mounds eroded over the centuries by waves, as well as numerous well-preserved artifacts, including bronze battleaxes, arrowheads, self-sharpening daggers, objects discarded by smiths, casting molds, and a faceted gold bar that was a monetary unit of the time.
The final statue was cast in bronze by Henry Prince and Company, of Southwark ; Foley died in August 1874 before casting was complete.

bronze and depicts
A statue in the Galleria Borghese depicts Cerberus with three heads sitting by the side of Hades, while a bronze sculpture depicting Heracles ' twelfth labour shows the demi-god leading a two-headed Cerberus from the underworld.
This ambivalence appears to underlie his presentation of human history in Works and Days, where he depicts a golden period when life was easy and good, followed by a steady decline in behaviour and happiness through the silver, bronze and Iron Ages – except he inserts a heroic age between the last two, though representing its warlike men as better than their bronze predecessors.
The tall bronze statue depicts a uniformed Patton raising a pair of binoculars up to his eyes, atop a pink granite base.
* A bronze equestrian sculpture of Houston is located in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas This statue depicts Houston atop his horse with a single hand out stretched pointing directly towards San Jacinto.
The reverse of a 3rd century BC bronze mirror from Tuscania depicts a youthful haruspex in a conical hat examining a liver.
In a traffic circle outside the Arts Building stands a landmark bronze fountain-sculpture made for Annmarie Garden which depicts a Chesapeake Bay waterman standing in a boat while holding oyster-harvesting tongs.
The Burton Cooper, Coopers Square Shopping Centre The bronze sculpture, The Burton Cooper by James Butler ( artist ) | James Walter Butler was commissioned in 1977 and depicts a local craftsman.
The cast bronze sculpture depicts a wounded Confederate officer encouraging his men to push forward during Pickett's Charge.
The medal, made of bronze, depicts the Cross of Lorraine and the date of General de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June in Roman figures: XVIII. VI. MCMXL on the obverse of the medal.
# Batsala Temple: The stone temple of Batsala Devi depicts many intricate carvings ; however, it is most famous for its bronze bell, known to local residents as " the bell-of barking dogs ," as when it is rung, dogs in the vicinity begin barking and howling.
The world renowned Georgian-Russian architect, artist, and sculptor also donated the bronze statue " Prometheus " which depicts the Titan stealing fire from Zeus to give to mortals.
Inside the central library rests two busts ; the bronze bust depicts William Henry Vanderbilt, the oldest child of Cornelius II and Alice, who died of typhoid at the age of 21 while attending Yale university.
This bronze bell dated from medieval times, depicts Saints Peter, Paul, John the Evangelist, and Thomas.
A pair of bronze figures on the promenade by the pier depicts the idea of families welcoming back the fishermen from sea.
His most famous work, the 1902 large bronze statue Physical Energy, depicts a naked man on horseback shielding his eyes from the sun as he looks ahead of him.
His bronze statue A Lucky Find at Pompeii ( Une Trouvaille à Pompei ) ( 1863 ) depicts a nude boy with a spade dancing for joy with one leg raised, because he has unearthed a Roman statuette.
It was made by George Frampton, erected in 1907, and depicts a bronze figure holding a child, standing on a stone pedestal.
The second, " The Elephant Group " depicts several large elephants in bronze.
This bronze statue depicts a boy with a boot in his hand from which the water runs out.
One highlight is a 2-metre tall bronze wall mural which spans 60 m to the back of the building and depicts Singapore's history from the 1840s to the 1940s.
It depicts Amitabha Buddha and is plated with bronze.
A more recent feature is the bronze statue of Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick, the statue depicts Kinnick dressed as a scholar, rather than in his football uniform.

2.961 seconds.