Winged Mercury's Sculpture

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Giambologna was late Renaissance or Mannerist style sculptor, who was born in Douai, France. His sculptures greatest characteristics are dynamic movement and detail studies of the human body. Winged Mercury is one of the Gods from ancient Roman myth. Mercury has many roles but in Giambologna’s sculpture he means the messengers. Mercury’s hat with wing and shoes with wing are representing the Mercury’s speed.

Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor, which he was on the boundary between impressionism and modern art. In the beginning of this career, his art work was traditional academic art. However, he started work with the themes that is different from the traditional themes of mythology and allegory. Now he is considered as one of most famous sculptor in his …show more content…

All three artist is from the different movement so the style will be very different to each other. Texture are one of the element that representing each different art movement. Late Renaissance style want to make the human look real so the surface is really smooth. Impressionist style is the ruff and sketchy texture so the surface texture are ruff. The Futurist artist want make their art to look speedy so the surface is smoother but it is different from the surface texture from the Late Renaissance style. Eye focus are different in each sculpture. In Giambologna’s Winged Mercury case eye flow head to torso and move to the arms or legs and to the accessories. Rodin’s Walking Man eye flow to torso to leg and come back to the torso and move to another leg. His sculpture’s torso is much detailed to compare other is because the eye need to come back to the torso to see the other leg. In Boccioni’s Unique Forms people’s eye flow head, torso, leg and move to another leg. His sculpture made torso smaller and legs bigger, so the audience can see the powerful leg rather than keep moving the eye to the

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