Getty Museum Analysis

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The Getty Villa, like its predecessor the Getty museum, holds many wonderful pieces of art, mostly from the Greek and Roman empires; but, unlike the Getty museum, the Getty villa has been built to emulate the Villa of the Papyri that was buried after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii, Italy. Therefore, the Getty Villa has a much more intermit and intercate design than its previous predecessor, it is also much smaller and has many rooms and gardens of different sizes, making it seem much more like a house converted into a museum than anything else. The way the rooms are separated and the artifacts spread out in a somewhat haphazard fashion gives it a charming and sometimes confusing feel, that allows the viewer to …show more content…
She was encased in glass and mounted on top of a golden podium looking dispassionately into the distance and holding an apple in her hand. Her cloths match the fashion of the Hellenistic period, showing off her body and the folds, giving her a more “wet” and sensual look, and Aphrodite, being the goddess of love, beauty and sexuality deserves nothing less. The bronze statue of Aphrodite became my treasure not only because of its beauty and graceful pose, but also because of her figure, which is somewhat larger than what I have seen from most Hellenistic kore statues. This statuesque figure reminds me somewhat of the Venuses of prehistory with their shapely bodies and well defined pubic and breast areas, and with Aphrodite actually being a goddess of fertility she is by definition a Venus. The size of this statue implies that it was made as either an ornament to sit in someone’s home or as a small piece of a larger set used to decorate an architectural sculpture; the fact that it was made in bronze is easily distinguishable because of the way the bronze has rusted and gained a greenish tint. This statue of Aphrodite has a relaxed but feminine pose with her right hand on her hip and her left holding an apple; this is a pose that we have seen in many Ancient Greek statues, her stoic expression rather than a demure one that would be expected in those …show more content…
The apple she holds in her hand is apparently a gift from a Trojan prince named Paris who gave it to her after she won a beauty contest, being the goddess of beauty, with Hera and Athena. The fact that she holds an apple in her hand reminds me a great deal of the story of Eve and the apple and how the apple came to be the symbol of the sin when it once symbolized beauty and femininity; it seems that this is also later shown in early Christian art where they don’t try to idealize their people but they instead prefer to focus on the next life instead of worldly pleasures and vanities such as beauty, even sometimes going so far as renouncing them all together. This proves the conflicting views the Greeks and Romans had with the Christians, because where they thought that man was the measure of all things and had gods and goddesses that were embodiments of human desires and earthly pleasures and were also affected by human emotions and fits of rage and jealousy, the Christians in a way strived to be everything the Greeks weren’t and had a singular god that had no
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