Although the building was to undergo a number of changes, it remained largely intact until the seventeenth century. The early Christians turned the temple into a church, adding an apse at the east end. It was probably at this time that the sculptures representing the birth of Athena were removed from the centre of the east pediment and many of the metopes were defaced. The Parthenon served as a church until Athens was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century, when it became a mosque. In 1687, during the Venetian siege of the Acropolis, the defending Turks were using the Parthenon as a store for gunpowder, which was ignited by the Venetian bombardment. The explosion blew out the heart of the building, destroying the roof and parts of the walls and the colonnade.
The Venetians succeeded in capturing the Acropolis, but held it for less than a year. Further damage was done in an attempt to remove sculptures from the west pediment, when the lifting tackle broke and the sculptures fell and were smashed. Many of the sculptures that were destroyed in 1687, are now known only from drawings made in 1674, by an artist probably to be identified as Jacques Carrey.
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Jan Myers creates movement in her quilts through repetition and alternation of colors. Only after looking closely do we see that, like the keys on a piano, every square in the quilt moves up a note in value. Laid over the diagonal "cylinders" of graduated color is a beige grid that appears lighter or darker, depending on the colors behind it. Our eye races across this quilt, up and down and over the rolling cylinders.
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Back then in my town we only had aroudn 2000 people. now we are at almost 7000. there is more art such as a mural inside walmart that says my town name,
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Answer 1) Plato - Ancient Greek who wrote his Symposium on the philosophy of art
Explanation : Plato was an ancient Greek who was also a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He wrote the a symposium on philosophy of art.
Answer 2) Denis Diderot - First person to critique using a philosophical approach
Explanation : Denis Diderot was a French philosopher,who was also an art critic, a writer, and was best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment. He used his philosophical approach to critic the art.
Answer 3) Roger Fry - English artist and art critic who coined the term Post-Impressionism
Explanation : Roger Fry was an English painter and also an art critic. He was also a member of the Bloomsbury Group. He was the English artist who coined the term Post-Impressionism.
Answer 4) Clement Greenberg - American art critic and collector who endorsed Abstract Expressionism
Explanation : Clement Greenberg, was an occasionally writer under the pseudonym of K. Hardesh, who was an American essayist known for mainly his influential visual art critic. He was closely associated with American Modern art in the mid-20th century. He was the one who declared Abstract Expressionism.
