'Sculpture - Three Angel Musicians'

'For this assignment, I decided to confab the Norton Simon Museum located in Pasadena, California, located except a some miles extraneous from the fabled Rose peal stadium. The Norton Simon Museum has plenty of pre-renaissance paintings and figures. one(a) figure/statue that stood go forth for me was titled triplet Angel Musicians. The artificer is not specifically stated in this piece alone it comes from the Pisan School. This mold is do of white stain and stands about 20.5 inches uplifted for each figure. distributively holy person instrumentalist is follown holding a different instrument. The remaining angel is let outn playing a zithern. A zither is an past musical construction that closely resembles a harp, but the somebody plucks the strings of the zither when it is positioned horizontally crosswise the persons body. The center angel is playing a bagpipe, although the features of the bagpipe make it baffling to identify what instrument this is. The ri ght angel is playing on a place of timbrels, which look identical miniature drums that argon worn crosswise the persons waist. The Pisan School is named aft(prenominal) the Italian metropolis named Pisa, which is belike where this cutting was made from.\nThe form was located in a focal point of life surrounded by various Italian tapestries. The figure is clean small to bring out from far away so I took a close-hauled look at the sculpture so I could see the different curves, lines and features of the angels that ar present. The great subject about the Norton Simon Museum is that the mental faculty allows patrons to take pictures of paintings or any shell of artwork because some(prenominal) students comes to this museum for their art-related papers. The figures in this sculpture look deal women, who are probably older in age, possibly more or less their fifties. They are eroding equips that resemble a toga from Greek culture. The garment goes all the way down towa rd the scope and it covers their feet so you cannot see them. The facial style of the angels indicates that they are skilful and they are pas... '