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1. 听写包答案:
Listen to part of a lecture in an art history class.
I am sure you’ve all been to museum, where you’ve seen beautiful white marble statues sculpted by the Greeks and Romans,
or at least that you’ve seen photos of such statues, right?
We’ve come to expect these classical Greek and Roman statues to be monochrome, just one color, white skin, white hair, white eyes, white everything,
the natural color of the marble they’re carved from.
Now, the idea of plain white sculpture goes back to the 15th century Europe when Renaissance artists rediscovered ancient Greek and Roman culture.
They were inspired by sculptures that appeared monochrome so they created white marble statues.
The impact of these Renaissance statues, such as Michelangelo’s David, gave rise to new standards for sculpture, standards that emphasized form rather than color.
But what if many of those ancient statues were originally polychrome, colored from head to toe?
Early in the 19th century, archaeologists found traces of paint on ancient sculptures and since then,
classical art historians have begun to realize that Greek and Roman marble sculptures were originally colored.
Even if an ancient marble statue doesn’t have any visible traces of paint, that does not mean it was originally monochrome.
In many cases, the pigment would’ve simply deteriorated.
Ancient artists used mineral-based paints with organic binding media that would’ve disintegrated on its own over time.
请听艺术史课上的部分内容。
我相信你们都去过博物馆,都在那儿看见过由希腊人和罗马人雕刻的美丽的白色大理石雕塑,
或者至少看见过那些雕塑的照片,对吗?
我们往往认为这些经典的希腊罗马雕塑是单色的,只有一种颜色,白色的皮肤、白色的头发、白色的眼睛,所有的东西都是白色的,
都是它们的原材料大理石的天然颜色。
这种简单白色雕塑的想法可以追溯到15世纪的欧洲,那时文艺复兴艺术家们重新发现了古希腊罗马文化。
他们受到了那些看起来只有单色的雕塑的启发,于是他们创作出了白色的大理石雕塑。
这些文艺复兴时期的雕塑,比如米开朗琪罗的大卫雕像的影响带来了雕塑的新标准,这些标准强调的是形式而不是颜色。
但是万一这些古代的雕塑中很多原本都是多色的呢?万一它们从头到脚都上了色呢?
在19世纪早期,考古学家在古代雕塑上发现了颜料的痕迹,自那以后,
经典艺术史学家就开始意识到,希腊罗马大理石雕塑原本是上了色的。
即使一个古代大理石雕塑没有任何可见的颜料痕迹,也不能说明它原本就是单色的。
在很多情况下,颜料只是磨损了。
古代艺术家使用的是以有机粘合剂和矿物质制成的颜料,这种颜料经过时间的推移会自行脱落。
2.阅读包答案:
比如,宗教团体是为了得到神灵的庇佑、趋避邪恶才产生的;家庭则是为了满足欲望并维系家庭长久;系统的劳作大多是因为被他人奴役等等。
3.写作包答案:
The last decade has witnessed an intriguing phenomenon that people are paying more and more attention to traditional Chinese culture. Their bookshelves are packed with books interpreting ancient Chinese wisdom, depicting its brilliant history and fascinating historic figures. What’s more, suggestions that Chinese classics be made a compulsory course have been made. Two factors may account for people’s up-surging interest. To begin with, tremendous curiosity is aroused by those pending history mysteries of hundreds or even thousands of years. Furthermore, people come to realise that ancient Chinese culture serves as a gold mine from which inexhaustible lessons can be learned and put into practice to solve the current problems.
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