Constantin Brâncuşi

Examples of Constantin Brâncuşi in the following topics:

• Sculpture

  • Similarly, the work of Constantin Brâncuşi at the beginning of the century paved the way for later abstract sculpture.
  • In revolt against the naturalism of Rodin and his late-19th-century contemporaries, Brâncuşi distilled subjects down to their essences as illustrated by the elegantly refined forms of his Bird in Space series (1924).
  • Brâncuşi's impact, through his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise , Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore , Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.

• Earthworks

  • Land art was inspired by Minimal art and Conceptual art but also by modern movements such as De Stijl, Cubism and the work of Constantin Brancusi and Joseph Beuys.

• Abstract Sculpture

  • The work of Constantin Brâncuşi at the beginning of the century paved the way for later abstract sculpture.
  • In revolt against the naturalism of Rodin and his late-19th-century contemporaries, Brâncuşi distilled subjects down to their essences as illustrated by his Bird in Space series (1924).
  • Brâncuşi's impact, with his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Ásmundur Sveinsson, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.
  • Discuss the evolution of abstract sculpture through the periods of Cubism and Surrealism, naming the important works of Rodin, Picasso, Duchamp, and Brâncuşi.

• The Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, and Byzantium

  • Constantine I ("the Great") is usually held to be the founder of the Byzantine Empire.
  • The age of Constantine marked a distinct epoch in the history of the Roman Empire.
  • Constantine built upon the administrative reforms introduced by Diocletian.
  • Scholars debate whether Constantine adopted his mother St.
  • After Constantine, few emperors ruled the entire Roman Empire.

• The Shift East

  • The age of Constantine marked a distinct epoch in the history of the Roman Empire.
  • Thus Constantine became the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
  • Constantine built the new Church of the Holy Apostles on the site of a temple to Aphrodite.
  • Constantine acquired a mythic role as a warrior against "heathens."
  • Coin struck by Constantine I to commemorate the founding of Constantinople

• Constantine

  • Constantine the Great was a Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD.
  • Constantine was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman army officer, and his consort Helena.
  • Eusebius of Caesarea and other Christian sources record that Constantine experienced a dramatic event in 312 at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, after which Constantine claimed the emperorship in the West and converted to Christianity.
  • The monuments he first commissioned, such as the Arch of Constantine, contained no reference to Christianity.
  • In 313, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan decriminalizing Christian worship.

• Architecture under Constantine

  • Constantine seized sole power over Rome, establishing authority and stability.
  • However, by 312, Constantine and Maxentius were engaged in open hostilities, culminating in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, in which Constantine emerged victorious.
  • The original face was reworked to take the likeness of Constantine.
  • The apse of the basilica Nova was the location of the Colossus of Constantine.
  • Identify the actions and works of art that Constantine is most noted for.

• The Rise of Christianity

  • Persecutory laws were nullified by different emperors at different times, but Constantine and Licinius's Edict of Milan (313) has traditionally marked the end of the persecution.
  • Constantine, Caesar in the Western empire and Licinius, Caesar in the East, also were signatories to the edict of toleration.
  • By 324, Constantine was sole ruler of the empire, and Christianity had become his favored religion.
  • By 324, Constantine, the Christian convert, ruled the entire empire alone.
  • After Constantine, the Christianization of the Roman empire would continue apace.

• Diocletian and the Tetrarchy

  • When Constantius died in 306, Galerius promoted Severus to Augustus while Constantine, Constantius' son, was proclaimed Augustus by his father's troops.
  • The council agreed that Licinius would become Augustus in the West, with Constantine as his Caesar.
  • Constantine forced Maximian's suicide in 310.
  • Maxentius was defeated by Constantine at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 and subsequently killed.
  • By 313, therefore, there remained only two emperors: Constantine in the West and Licinius in the East.

• The Emperor Irene

  • On 14 January 771, Irene gave birth to a son, the future Constantine VI.
  • When Constantine V died in September 775, Leo succeeded to the throne at the age of twenty-five years.
  • She negotiated a marriage between her son Constantine and Rotrude, a daughter of Charlemagne by his third wife Hildegard.
  • As Constantine approached maturity he began to grow restless under her autocratic sway.
  • Constantine could only flee for aid to the provinces, but even there participants in the plot surrounded him.