Ram in Thicket, is something that really caught my eye. First of all the colors just blend soo well that one might easily think that it was painted. But what intrigued me was that there was gold foil. I had no idea that foil was even invented by 2300 B.C. Anyway, the carving is great. The flowers at the end of the thicket look lovely. It almost looks as if the goat is wearing a coat of feathers. Still pretty cool though. Furthermore, this is the first time i've actually seen lapiz lazuli in a piece of art. I love that this piece is made of many different precious materials. The horns, the face of the goat, the thicket, all of it looks well made and realistic.
The next piece i wanted to write about is the Laocoon Group. I looked at this sculpture and i laughed a little. Not because it's terrible or anything but because the emotion is so exaggerated that the main subjects face looks a little funny to me. But the story behind this is nothing funny to laugh at. The artistry behind it is actually amazing. Although it is a little damaged it sculpts the story of Laocoon and his suns. Laocoon, i feel, was actually a hero. He urged the trojans to keep the doors shut and to not admit the trojan horse in. Although we all know that the Trojans eventually let the horse in, Laocoon was a hero for forseeing the trick and attempting to stop it. He was so clever that the sea god Poseidon had to send to serpents to kill him. I love how the emotions show the pain and fear in the faces of Laocoon and his sons as they are being killed. The serpent could be a symbol of Poseidon and how snakey he was. The act committed by the sea god was evil and he had no right to encroach in the quarrel between armies of man. This sculpture was actually very sad to me. It may be a happy sculpture for the Greek but it was sad to know that the trojans could've been saved if it weren't for the sea god Poseidon.
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