Zeus artifact

The artifact that I chose at the museum is a sculpture of Zeus’s head. Zeus is seen with a wavy beard and a wavy head hair. It seems that a piece of his nose and beard is missing probably being of misuse or old age. The age of this statue is either third or second century B.C. Also its civilization is Greek, Hellenistic. The artist is unknown but was just a statue to how Zeus was portrayed. There is also some brown spots on the statue which could be from old age as well.

You can tell that this is a classic piece of art because you can tell on the statue that the artist used chipping tools to create it and it shows how people in that time period portrayed Zeus. People today still make statues or drawings of Zeus that all look similar to this statue. We took their ideas of what Zeus looked like. Also many artists today use the same types of methods to making statues as this artist did to make this statue.

At the Metropolitan Museum, the statue of Zeus that I chose was lined up with many other statues of people. They had statues of Aristotle and Socrates right beside the statue of Zeus. Statues of Poseidon and Athena were also next to the statue of Zeus. I saw that Zeus and Poseidon were portrayed very similar and almost looked the same. I can tell that the museum has tried to show different views on what people back then looked like. For example, I saw two statues of Aristotle that had many differences between them. The artifacts that are being portrayed help me know that its whatever the statues of Zeus may have many other different looks to it.

Some things that I learned after the trip to the museum that I didn’t know before was that many of the statues of the gods who were guys were not that different. For example, Zeus and Poseidon looked very similar by the statues. I also learned that the artifacts in each section were very similar to one another.

Some preconceptions that were confirmed by my visit were that the statues of all the gods were all similar. Since know one has really seen them, I thought that many of the gods looked very similar in the face. After looking at the statues it confirmed it. Some preconceptions that changed were that I thought that the statues were in good condition but actually many of them had pieces missing and many had brown spots.