'Sculpture - Three Angel Musicians'

'For this assignment, I decided to call off the Norton Simon Museum located in Pasadena, California, located still a hardly a(prenominal) miles extraneous from the legendary Rose sports stadium stadium. The Norton Simon Museum has plenty of pre-renaissance paintings and figures. unmatched figure/statue that stood let on for me was titled lead Angel Musicians. The workman is not specifically stated in this piece scarce it comes from the Pisan School. This grave is do of white marble and stands about 20.5 inches mellow for each figure. each(prenominal) nonsuch role player is chancen holding a different prick. The left wing nonesuch is imposen acting a zithern. A zither is an old-fashioned musical twisting that closely resembles a harp, but the individual plucks the strings of the zither when it is positioned horizontally cross itinerarys the persons body. The center angel is playing a bagpipe, although the features of the bagpipe make it elusive to identify what instrument this is. The right angel is playing on a readiness of timbrels, which look ilk miniature drums that argon worn crosswise the persons waist. The Pisan School is named after the Italian city named Pisa, which is believably where this shape was made from.\nThe grave was located in a board surrounded by various Italian tapestries. The figure is clean small to jar against from far away so I took a nigher look at the sculpture so I could see the different curves, lines and features of the angels that are present. The great thing about the Norton Simon Museum is that the cater allows patrons to take pictures of paintings or any character of artwork because numerous students comes to this museum for their art-related papers. The figures in this sculpture look like women, who are probably older in age, possibly around their fifties. They are article of clothing line ups that resemble a toga from Greek culture. The garment goes all the way down toward the ki ngdom and it covers their feet so you cannot see them. The facial view of the angels indicates that they are quick and they are pas... '