Metropolitan Museum

    The gallery I visit was the Metropolitan Museum. It was my first time there, It was amazing even though by time I got there I only have like two minutes to look around because they were closing. So I took a picture of the first two times that caught my eyes. The first picture is a Fragmentary Colonial marble head of a youth. The culture of this sculpture is Greek. It was originally from a collection of the Pergamon Museum. The fragmentary marble head of a youth was representing Alexander the Great in other words “a young god”. The second picture is Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos. This statue represents a youth adorning his head with a band after winning in an athletic contest. The culture of this sculpture is Roman. The Greek sculptor Polykleitos of Argos was one of the most famous artists of the ancient world. He design his sculptures to attract attention to bodily proportions and stance. The figure's thorax and pelvis tilt in opposite directions, setting up rhythmic contrasts in the torso that create an impression of organic vitality. The position of the feet poised between standing and walking gives a sense of potential movement. This calculated pose, which is found in almost all works attributed to Polykleitos, became a standard formula used in Graeco-Roman and later Western European art.