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Fighting Corrosion to Save an Ancient Greek Bronze (Beginning Level)

Fighting Corrosion to Save an Ancient Greek Bronze (Beginning Level)

Publisher: The Getty

Students study an object from antiquity that was found in the sea off the coast of Italy in order to understand how conservators remove and prevent corrosion on bronze statues They derive meaning from analyzing the pose of the st... (read more)
Students study an object from antiquity that was found in the sea off the coast of Italy in order to understand how conservators remove and prevent corrosion on bronze statues. They derive meaning from analyzing the pose of the statue. Based on what they observe in the sculpture and what they read about the statue, students speculate about how the sculpture was lost at sea. (read less)