Firstly, in the “Enthroned Virgin and Child”, the Virgin was breast feeding Jesus. The sculpture can be seen as having two purposes. The sculptor tried to express himself to God as a good religious person or perhaps he wanted to show the next generation how the Virgin and Jesus look like. In both possibilities the aim is the expression of sculptor’s desire to do something for God as a good Christian.

The medium of this sculpture is ivory and I think sculptor used ivory as a materi

The sculptor sculpted the very natural form of feeding a child, which is known by almost everybody in the world. Also, I believe the bible and all the books the sculptor read about Christianity helped him form the images of Jesus and the Virgin in his mind.

Secondly, “Portrait of Emperor Caligula” is portrait of one of the Roman Emperors. The purpose of this sculpture was, in the time of Roman Empire, to give information to the citizens about their emperor. In every empire it was really hard to see the emperor, so citizens had a chance to see their emperors only by the sculptures.

This sculptures size is almost the same as the standard size of a normal human head, so I wasn’t affected by its size. Even though it has the standard size of human head because of it

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