The Three Graces Analysis

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According to Jane Francis, the writer of The Three Graces, “The Three Graces are among the most consistently rendered motifs of the Roman world. The group of the three, nude, embracing women is extant in statuary and numerous two-dimensional art forms, but all adhere to a basic formula of pose, appearance, figural type, and composition, with only minor variations. This uniformity is surprising when one considers the Greek history of the motif. Greek artists depicted the draped, walking and dancing Charities with considerable discrepancies in hairstyle, pose, clothing, attributes, and, evidently, meaning. Worshipped as minor goddesses, the Charities were represented according to local desires and traditions and did not adhere to a widespread cultural or artistic standard. Explanations for the consistency of representation, flat composition, nudity, pose, and meaning of the group should therefore be sought within the Roman artistic and intellectual world of sculpture, its practices, and function”. Also according to Blake Hager of the Female Pharaoh “Hatshepsut came to power in the 18th …show more content…

She commissioned a remarkable number of temples of sculpture. She was interested in the power of art to convene divine or royal authority. She built Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, there were a lot of her kneeling figures, representation of Hatshepsut as a sphinx, which line in the center of the lower courtyard of the mortuary temple. Hatshepsut copied most of the ancient Egyptians representation to show herself as king. Her sculptures were symmetry; embeddedness in the stones, there was no space between her arms and torso and also between her legs. The head crown and the beard she wears are all symbols of her kinship. Her body is relatively represented in a muscular way without any visible breast taking away her identity as a

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