artist Diego Velazquez completed his epic oil on canvas‚ Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan. Requested without commission by Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens‚ Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan depicts the moment when the god Apollo tells Vulcan that Venus‚ his wife‚ is having an affair with another god‚ Mars. Apollo has presumably entered Vulcan’s blacksmith workshop to bear the bad news amongst the other blacksmiths in the forge. The moment when Apollo warns Vulcan of Venus’ adultery is the focus
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War at Valley Forge Plutarch stated‚ “The poor go to war‚ to fight and die for the delights‚ riches‚ and superfluities of others.” The Continental Army at Valley Forge were for sure not treated with enough respect‚ support‚ and enthusiasm as it takes to win the war. Around half of the soldiers at Valley Forge‚ as I recall‚ were reported sick in the first few months. Also‚ the whole Army was not presented warm clothes and warm shelters. We only had one pair of socks‚ shoes‚ and everything‚ which
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Poem Analysis Digging Digging is a poem written by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. It’s about a person looking back into the past and thinking about his father and his grandfather. The memories in the poem are about his father and his grandfather’s occupation. The sentences: ‘Stooping in rhythm through potato drills.’ shows that his father was a potato farmer and ‘My grandfather cut more turf in a day’ shows that his grandfather was a turf harvester. The title of this poem also has a meaning
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Dr. Northrop History of Western Art Alex Loewen 3/17/16 Venus at Vulcan’s Forge The painting that I chose to write about is Francois Boucher’s Venus at Vulcan’s Forge. This painting is a collection of four paintings completed for Jean-Francois Bergeret de Frouville. Boucher painted this particular painting in 1769. In the painting Venus is seen presenting her mortal son Aeneas and she wants Vulcan to make a sword for her son. The center of the painting is Venus floating on a cloud with Aeneas
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I have selected Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-term Break” and Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night” for this analysis. Though both of these poems speak about death and morality‚ they do so in very different ways. The manner of speak differs in these poems as well as their rhythm‚ meter‚ and structure. The way each poem is written creates a unique tone and helps to establish the speaker’s mood and emotions. While the tone establishes the mood‚ each poem’s rhythm and meter helps to emphasize
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Language A 11th of March‚ 2015 Written Task 1 Narrative based on Seamus Heaney’s “Storm on the Island” and “Mid-term Break” Poems Rationale: This written task relates to Part 4: Literature: Critical Study of the course. For this written task‚ I have chosen to write a complete short story with strong descriptive elements based on two of Seamus Heaney’s poems - ‘Mid-term Break’ and ‘Storm on the Island’. I have chosen these two poems since they show very significant parts of Heaney’s life and
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as the title insinuates it‚ is a situation that describes a car accident that takes place in a city‚ which means‚ that an ambulance‚ a hospital‚ the police‚ and the crowd are the main actors when death is about to strike. In the development of the poem‚ Shapiro describes the atmosphere that surrounds a city at night when there is a car accident; Blood all over the streets and gutters‚ the police covering the situation and the crowd observing the tragic accident‚ recalling death as enemy. In a very
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Forge by Laurie Anderson Literary Analysis Forge is Laurie Halse Anderson’s second installment to the Chains series following up her previous novel‚ Chains. The escapades of the young African American slaves‚ Isabel and Curzon‚ continue in this sequel to Chains. Young Curzon and Isabel are forced to endure the hardships of maturing during the demanding time of the American Revolution. Curzon and Isabel are runaway slaves who have a high risk of getting captured with their past catching up
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Have you ever wondered what happened during the Revolutionary war‚ and how our country came to be? Well the men at Valley Forge took big part in forming our country .What I believe is that the men at Valley Forge took a stand against the British Continental army. The men at Valley Forge during the revolutionary war took a stand by showing the British and the Hessian soldiers that they hired that they wanted to be an independent country. This was taking a stand because they stood up to the most
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Art Criticism: The Forge of Vulcan The Italian painter‚ Leandro Bassano (1557-1622) created the oil on canvas piece known as “The Forge of Vulcan.” “The Forge of Vulcan” was created circa 1590-1610 in his father Jacopo Bassano’s workshop according to Brigstocke. During this time in history the Duke of Alba was sent to the Netherlands to defeat Margaret of Parma and became governor according to Bellamy. The invention of the printing press was a huge technological advancement that enabled numerous
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