Nanette Salomon‚ a very well known feminist writer‚ wrote the article‚ “Judging Artemisia: A Baroque Woman in Modern Art History.” The article opens up with a discussion about the 2001-2 exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy. The author explains that three things are unusual here: the fact that two famous artists were presented at the same time‚ that they were related as father and daughter‚ and the fact that the woman was better known than
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Descriptive Paper In this essay I will describe the elements that make up Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes by Trophine Bigot‚ a Baroque artist. This work is an oil painting on wood panel from 1640. It is part of the permanent collection at the Walters Museum in Baltimore Maryland. The painting is of a close up scene occurring between two females and a male. Behind the people there are red curtains parting open. It is the only part of the back ground that is visible to the viewer. The
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Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s "David with the Head of Goliath" and Artemisia Gentileschi’s "Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" The period of Baroque art was from 1600 to 1750‚ and relates to the style of architecture and art that was dominant at that time. Rome was the center of this new style that reflected the Counter Reformation; the Church was regrouping during this period‚ and was trying to build up its patronage by bringing people back to worship after the Reformation
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Jacquelyn Archey Mr. Gans AP Lang – Period 3 11/14/12 Slaying the Beast Perched on a rock‚ the heroic victor leans on his bloodied sword with the decapitated head from the six-headed beast raised up towards the light. His patriotic toga remains wrapped dutifully around his shoulder while the remaining five heads sneer in disgust and plot their revenge behind him. This Greek mythological hero is anything but; he is American president Barack Obama holding the disapproving‚ lifeless head of Osama
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powerful political leader‚ Warrior Queen Artemisia II of Halicarnassus. Queen Artemisia ruled over Halicarnassus‚ now Bodrum from 377 to 353 B.C with her husband and brother‚ King Mausolus. It was common custom in Caria for nobility to intermarry in their family. Both were the children of Hecatomnus of Mylasa‚ a local satrap to the Persians‚ who had been ambitious and had taken control of several of the neighbouring cities and districts. Mausolus and Artemisia‚ in their time‚ extended the territory
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Judith is a 349- line poetic fragment. It is one of five articles in the British Library‚ MS. Cotton Vitellius A.xv. It is a document originally made up of two manuscripts. The first of the pair known as the Southwick Codex‚ is thought to of been produced during the twelfth century. The Nowwell Codex also known as “The Beowulf Manuscript” is about 150 years older and dated between A.D 980 and 1020. The manuscripts were combined in the 17th century. Like much of the other works housed at the Cotton
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Slaying the Dragon: How Asian Women were Portrayed in Movies "Slaying the Dragon" by Deborah Gee is a comprehensive look at media stereotypes of Asian and Asian American women since the silent era. From the racist use of white actors to portray Asians in early Hollywood films‚ through the success of Anna May Wong’s sinister dragon lady‚ to Suzie Wong and the 50s geisha girls‚ to the Asian-American anchorwoman of today. The movie also shows how stereotypes of exoticism and docility have affected
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viewers throughout the centuries. By looking at the art of the following three artists‚ Artemisia Gentileschi‚ Pablo Picasso and Shepard Fairey‚ I will show that although each had different motives and were from different eras‚ they each used their work to try and influence the people of their time. Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593‚ and was a daughter of a well know artist Orazio Gentileschi. When she was seventeen she was raped by an art teacher‚ whom her father asked to train
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Analysis of subject: The painting is actually depicting the sea and the sky. The sea is black‚ and the sky is gray. The artist uses fishing hooks and nails to create the sea‚ while he paints the sky with oil. 2. Analysis of Form: This painting is an abstract and representational artwork. This painting also has a mechanical art style. The artist uses black fishing hooks to create a symmetrical balance. The achromatic color scheme of the painting conveys a nostalgic and longing mood. The artist achieves
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St. George Slaying the Dragon Carlo Crivelli was alive during the Italian Renaissance in the 1400s. He was highly influenced by the Church and all of his works certainly represented that because everything he did was about religion. St. George Slaying the Dragon was completed in 1470 and is arguably his most prominent work. The empty sky makes him the focal point of the art along with his sword and halo allow him to stand out pretty easily from the rest of the objects in the painting. One would
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