Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 Pictori philosopho (Blunt‚ 3)‚ "Painter-philosopher" was a name given to Nicolas Poussin by Serous d’ Agincourt in 1782. Agincourt later found out that the name Pictori philosopho had already been given to the German artist Anton Raphael Mengas. Nicolas Poussin was born in 1594 in the town of Les Andelys on the Seine. He came from a nobel family that was ruined by religious wars according to Giovanni Pietro Bellori. No actual proof of this has been established his
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Entering Chartres Cathedral Through the Central Portal In the town of Chartres about 50 miles southwest of Paris‚ is where the Chartres Cathedral is located and can be seen for miles as it is the tallest structure and was built on the highest point of the town. Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres is its formal name but since the majority of the French Cathedrals were dedicated to the Virgin Mary‚ to avoid confusion the cathedrals are referred to the town to which they belong. The Chartres Cathedral
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SOUL “We must not allow the crowded altar-rails at the morning’s Mass to blind us to the existence of horrible contrasts: entire families where things are wrong‚ or even whole neighbourhoods corrupted and abominable‚ where evil is‚ as it were‚ enthroned with its court all around it. Second‚ we should remember that although sin is in such places congested and doubly repulsive‚ it is none the less vile where it is more spread out. Third‚ though we see there the matured fruit — the Dead Sea fruit of
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High Renaissance Introduction * the art of high renaissance‚ sought a general ‚unified effect in terms of pictorial representation and architectural composition. * a controlled equilibrium was observed from the increase in the dramatic force & physical presence of work of art. * Because the essential characteristic of renaissance art was its unity-a balance was achieved as a matter of intuition. * As a result‚ the style was destined to break up if the emphasis was shifted
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Nara has been Japan’s capital for less than a century when the new enthroned Emperor Kammu decided to move it to Nagaoka. Less than a decade after the capital has been moved to Nagaoka‚ the Emperor decided to relocate the capital again. This time Nagaoka was Japan’s capital for less than a decade. The new capital was relocated in Uda village‚ later called Heian. Throughout the history‚ scholars had given different reasons explaining these two relocations. Some reasons seem more plausible than others
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Essay: Egypt The materials used to create these sculptures symbolized the pharaoh’s timelessness and eternal life‚ the body of the pharaohs symbolized the power given to them by God‚ and the formal design qualities showed the religious and political qualities in the statues. The statue of Khafre and Akhenaton reflects the political and religious climates of their time through the use of medium which symbolized the pharaoh’s eternal life and timelessness‚ and through formal qualities which symbolized
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windows are dark‚ but still light enough to allow us to view “biblical stories‚ legends of the saints‚ the lives of heroes like Roland and Charlemagne‚ and scenes of everyday medieval life”. Giotto’s Arena Chapel contains the frescoes of the painter Cimabue Giotto. The fresco of the Nativity is a part of the story of the virgin. The story of the incarnation and infancy of Christ begins on the Chancel Arch and continues to the middle register. The pulpit by Nicola Pisano is different from other pulpits
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Madonna‚ The Feral Child I’m sure you may have heard of wild or wolf children‚ also known as feral children. These are human children that have been neglected and raised with little to no human contact. Some have been raised in the wild by animals‚ mostly by dogs‚ wolfs‚ or large cat breeds. Other feral children have been locked up or left alone since birth. These children mostly confined and denied all social interaction with others. There are hundreds of cases of wild children from around
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depiction of Madonna as he says that The idea of having so-called works of art in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin is sick. (Giulani:1999) This shows that the offensiveness of Ofili’s Madonna‚ seems based largely in its use of materials‚ the notorious elephant dung. The artist’s respectful use of elephant dung was taken as an insult to the image of the Madonna. In the same journal another MHC art professor Michael Davis differs with Giulani’s perception of Madonna as she
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6‚ English H2/SP Secret Life of Bees Research Paper While one reads the Sue Monk Kidd novel‚ The Secret Life of Bees‚ an enigma acquainted with the book is why the Black Madonna of Breznichar in Bohemia is used as opposed to a white Virgin Mary. With the story taking place in the racist south of 1964 it would be reasonable to assume that a black Mary wouldn’t be common‚ or readily accepted; however she still occupies a large
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