After visiting the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts‚ I will write about four art works. The first one is called Salome Receiving the Head of St. John the Baptist by Andrea Solario. The work is very colorful‚ and it shows chiaroscuro with the dark background and light on the faces of Salome and John the Baptist. The focal point is on John’s head. This is one of Solario’s most notable works‚ and the figure style is influenced by Leonardo Da Vinci. The story behind the painting is that Herodias had a quarrel
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Executive summary As the tourism industry is doing well throughout the world‚ there are a lot of tourism sites which has gained benefits from it and one of it is the Singapore Zoo. However‚ many of the tourism sites do not aware of the visitor-related management issues that are happening under their area of control. For the Singapore Zoo‚ there is currently an overcrowding issue which has brought detriments for them. In order to deal with the overcrowding issue‚ the manager of the Singapore Zoo
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the study and appreciation of fine art. The Museum offers art exhibitions‚ programs and events to showcase its collections of Californian‚ European‚ Asian‚ African and Oceanic artworks and international ceramics. The Crocker Art Museum offers many outreach programs in the Sacramento community including internships‚ volunteer opportunities‚ student and community exhibitions and scholarship art projects (Crocker). In the past Sacramento State and the Crocker Art Museum came together for an evening showcasing
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McNeil Museum of Art Case Introduction The purpose of the McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) Integrated Marketing Plan is to increase the overall visibility and enhance the image of the museum. The museum’s purpose is to provide an inviting setting for the appreciation of art in its historical and cultural contexts for the benefit of this and successive generations of Fannel County citizens and visitors. The museum’s marketing efforts are meant to highlight the excellent artwork‚ history and education
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Nostalgic Inspiration Being a lifetime art enthusiast‚ I spent the majority of my San Francisco trip visiting the best museums they had to offer. All of them inspired me in one way or another but only one of them in particular actually motivated me to continue to become a better artist. The Cartoon Art Museum‚ or CAM‚ brightly stood out among the rest because at this museum I was surrounded by the icons of my childhood that originally inspired me to pursue an art career. My passion for my work was rekindled
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The Cleveland Museum of art has a major collection of works from Italy‚ roman‚ Egyptian‚ and African art. Also‚ the great collection of earthly painting‚ religious painting and sculptures go back to Ancient Rome and Greece. Various forms of art can be individual from other collection such as sculpture‚ portraits‚ and earthly‚ religious paintings. The Annunciation‚ by Bouts at the Cleveland museum of art falls into the category of religious art. The artist that made this painting‚ Albert Bouts‚ is
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Birmingham Museum of Art Presents: Pompeii: Tales From An Eruption "Many strange things happened to us there‚ and we had much to fear." Pliny the Younger The quote above comes to us from one of the letters of Pliny the Younger‚ the namesake of the man who was the commander of the Roman Fleet in 79 A.D. Pliny the Elder was last seen by his nephew as he prepared to sail across the Bay of Naples to Pompeii; the older man would perish in an attempt to rescue citizens of a coastal Italian town
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Difference Between an Art Museum and Art Gallery Both art museums and public galleries present works of art to the public‚ exhibiting a diverse range of art from more well-known artists to emerging artists. They may sound similar‚ but in fact they are used very differently in their representation of art objects. Art museums are non-profit institutions designed to keep and display art for enjoyment purposes and to preserve them for future generations. Art galleries tend to be small privately owned
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The object that I chose to study is a board for the game of “Pegs and Holes‚” which I found at the Museum of Fine Arts. The game board dates to 2000-1500 C.E. and is from the Levant region in the Near East. The object itself is a stone board with multiple holes carved into the top. The pegs seen in the museum are reproductions of what would have originally been ivory pieces. Played by two people‚ the game’s objective seems to have been for a player to race their pegs through the holes and seize
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Museum Visit Paper – Ante Meridian by Frederick Waugh ART 101 My family and I recently visited the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando‚ Florida. The museum enjoys a seemingly eclectic collection of artifacts‚ sculptures‚ photographs‚ and paintings. While perusing the gallery I was fascinated by one painting in particular. The piece was called “Ante Meridian”‚ oil on board‚ c.a. 1935 by Frederick Judd Waugh (American 1861-1940). This representational painting was of a presumably north eastern
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