Antoine Henri Becquerel was born in Paris on December 15‚ 1852. He was a member of a family of scholars and scientists over four generations‚ including his grandfather‚ Antoine-Cesar Becquerel (1788-1878)‚ his father‚ Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-91)‚ and his own son Jean Becquerel (1878-1953). After his early schooling at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand‚ Henri studied engineering at the École des Ponts et Chaussées (1874-77)‚ history at the École Polytechnique (1872-74) and his fields of science were
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Theseus and the Minotaur The idea of Theseus fighting the Minotaur was a popular neo-classical subject among sculptors. Although‚ Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) finished his sculpture about 1850 that is in the late part of what is meant by neo-classicism‚ Barye’s modelling of the surfaces has a vibrancy and movement characteristic of the French romantic sculpture. Barye is well-known for his animal production and Theseus and the Minotaur is only one of a series produced by Barye from the early
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A motet can be defined as an unaccompanied choral or composition based on a sacred Latin text. There are some exceptions‚ such as motets that have secular text or instrumental accompaniment. In general‚ motets normally used religious texts that were not used in the mass. Motets were often polyphonic‚ meaning that there were multiple vocal parts sung simultaneously. Motets started to be written during the medieval period and then developed throughout time and was most known throughout the Renaissance
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- The disenchantment of the 1001 Nights notion by the representation of sexuality - Thompson’s story of the slave children Habibi and Dodola builds up a density of themes‚ in which the reader immerses himself and for which he often wishes a knife to slice this multi- layered story to bring it into a chronology. It never loses its train of thoughts but still requires the reader to disentangle the story to understand it. The form of the story draws on the tradition of the 1001 Nights Stories‚ with
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First Article A. Neupert‚ Richard. “The Musical Store As Closre Device in The 400 Blows.” Film Criticism 14.1 (1989): 26-32. Academic Search Complete. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. B. This criticism studies the musical motifs and structures within The 400 Blows. The inclusion or presence of a musical reappearance shows the people watching a closure to the film. It recaps the whole film and ties together the theme and movements that developed over the course of the film. Overture or the approach of music
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Q1. In no more than 500 words compare the use of the cantus firmus technique in Guillaume Dufay’s Agnus Dei from his Missa L’homme armé and Josquin de Prez’s Agnus Dei from his Mass L’homme armé. The Cantus Firmus technique is an existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition. The cantus firmus had been the most commonly used for writing masses throughout most of the 15th century. It is traditionally written in the alto clef and begins and ends on the tonic of the key or the
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One of the most productive chemists that have lived through history seizes to be Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier. Known mainly for his works in naming elements like oxygen and hydrogen‚ establishing the infrastructure of the phlogiston theory‚ developing the metric system and helping establish the role oxygen plays in a combustion reaction he has most significantly changed Chemistry as a whole for millions around the world. Mr. Lavoisier was born on August 1743 to a noble family in Paris‚
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THE THEATRE OF ANTONIN ARTAUD ‘There’s no experiment in theatre in the last fifty years that hasn’t‚ knowingly or not‚ owed something to Artaud’s catechism. Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud was a French playwright who revolutionised the world of playwrights. His given genre of playwrights is known as ‘Avante-garde theatre’. Artaud was very experimental and innovative with his playwrights‚ very much pushing the boundaries when writing them. He believed that theatre should be a clear representation
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and overtime proved to change how the country viewed‚ produced‚ and perform the art within their society. Not only did Napoleon regulate and allowed himself to be courted by the leading artists of his time‚ which included Jacques-Louis David and Antoine-Jean Gros‚ but he refined a host of minor engravers and portraitists as well. The abundance of resemblances of the young “Héros Italique” ensured that the popularity of Napoleon Bonaparte’s image would eventually surpass both that of Marat and David’s
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JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU AND THE PEOPLE WHO INFLUENCED HIS CAREER JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU AND THE PEOPLE WHO INFLUENCED HIS CAREER Who was Jean-Antoine Watteau? Gradually drifting away from the seventeenth century Baroque style‚ French painting of the eighteenth century embraced the Rococo. One of the most influential and acclaimed artists of this era was Jean-Antoine Watteau. Watteau undoubtedly mapped the path of new artistic advancements in France. He was a former costume designer
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