The Lady of Auxerre

Description:
Sculpted by Cretan ( 640-630 B.C ) by yellow limestone with 75cm height. This sculpture can be found in Musee du Louvre, museum in Paris.

This sculpture is less than half a life size. Her hair is very similar to the Egyptian female hairstyle. She's standing on a square base. She had a missing right part on her face. Her right hand is raised to her chest while left hand stay stiffly on the side of her body.

There are some elements of art in this sculpture. We can see lines here; vertical and horizontal and curve lines.  The vertical and horizontal lines form the pattern of her hair. Vertical lines all the way down from her hips ot her legs. Curve lines can be seen in the details on her face..

The texture of this sculpture is the texture of limestone. The nature of limestone is fragile. This explain the missing part of her face.

Her face is U-shaped. The whole sculpture is being made in human figure shape. It does not have the right proportion of human body; her upper body seems to be shorter while having an extremely long legs.

Analysis:

Cretan crafted this sculpture in yellow limestone with strong and vigorous Daedalic style.  The crafter adapting  Egyptian's culture in create the hair of the sculpture.

There are some principle of organisation found in this sculpture. This Lady of Auxerre is not having a correct human proportion. She had a longer leg with shorter upper body. Her right hand gesture suggest movements. The repetition of vertical and horizontal line of her hair suggest a sense of rhythm. She seems rigid  because of her stiff and solid appearance.

Subjective views:
I think that this sculpture looks like the goddess or queen of Egyptian because of the hair pattern and the outfit of the sculpture.

Judgement:
This Lady of Auxerre represents the goddesses of Syrian and Phoenician through the gesture of her right hand. The purpose to create this sculpture is to resemble an archaic Greek goddess. It  serves as a votary rather than the maiden Goddess Persephone.

Audience:
The museum at Paris commissioned this sculpture. There are some people who had been commissioned the sculpture such as Edouard Bourgoin and Maxime Collignon. Right now, Musee de Louvre commissioned the Lady of Auxerre.


sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Auxerre
http://artmuseumjournal.com/lady_of_auxerre.aspx