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  2. Culture of San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Several art museums, such as the San Diego Museum of Art, the Timken Museum of Art, the Mingei International Museum featuring folk art, and the Museum of Photographic Arts are located in Balboa Park. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is located in an oceanfront building in La Jolla and has a branch located downtown at Santa Fe Depot.

  3. Roman sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture: Late Antique Responses and Practices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Mattusch, Carol A. The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculptural Collection. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. Ryberg, Inez Scott. Rites of the State Religion in Roman Art. Rome ...

  4. Sun God (statue) - Wikipedia

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    The figurative sculpture is a 14-foot (4.3 m) multicolored bird-like creature, perched atop a 15-foot (4.6 m) tall arch-shaped, vine-covered concrete pedestal. Erected in February 1983 as the first of the Stuart Collection of public art projects, the polyester and fiberglass Sun God has become a notable feature of the UC San Diego campus, with ...

  5. Hellenistic sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Polykleitos: The Doryphoros, the summary of the aesthetic idealism of Classicism. The sculpture of Classicism, the period immediately preceding the Hellenistic period, was built on a powerful ethical framework that had its bases in the archaic tradition of Greek society, where the ruling aristocracy had formulated for itself the ideal of arete, a set of virtues that should be cultivated for ...

  6. May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden - Wikipedia

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    May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden The garden in 2015 Fernando Casaempere (born-1958) - Foundation - Porcelain and various minerals, 2019. The May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden is a sculpture garden featuring 19th- and 20th-century modern and contemporary sculptures, located adjacent to the San Diego Museum of Art's West Wing in San Diego's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California.

  7. Apollo Belvedere - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) [1] is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity.. The work has been dated to mid-way through the 2nd century A.D. and is considered to be a Roman copy of an original bronze statue created between 330 and 320 B.C. by the Greek sculptor Leochares. [2]

  8. Roman De Salvo - Wikipedia

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    De Salvo describes the work as “an organic way to express the freeway as organism.” [6] Roman de Salvo was a recipient of the San Diego Art Prize in 2008. This award is given to three established artists and three newer artists each year in order to promote art as a cultural value in the San Diego region.

  9. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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    After the beginnings of the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, Greek art developed in three periods: archaic, classical and hellenistic. Characterized by naturalism and the use of reason in measurements and proportions, and with an aesthetic sense inspired by nature, Greek art was the starting point for the art developed on the European continent. [14]