to Doryphoros of Polykleitos which you can conclude that the artist creating Augustus was very familiar with Greek art. Adams also discusses the other features on the statue such as the little boy at the bottom of Augustus’s right leg. This boy is Cupid‚ the son of Venus who is riding a dolphin and was put there as a reminder that Augustus traced his lineage to Aeneas‚ another son of Venus’ and was descended from the gods. Located on his chest is his armor. The armor‚ according to Adams‚ is Mother
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The Swing The first artwork by Jean Honoré Fragonard I am going to discuss is The Swing. It considered being the most successful painting by Fragonard. Today‚ The Swing represented a symbol of Rococo art. It was a mixture of carefree attitude‚ eroticism and pastel swirls. It pastoral scenery creates an appealing demonstration of the youth’s beauty and illicit affairs. I picked The Swing because when I first saw the painting‚ the painting seems timeless and the woman on the swing stood out to
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producing new plays based on not only traditional and mythological stories‚ but also historical stories‚ European classics and Shakespeare’s plays. Recently they produced Kathakali plays based on Shakespeare’s Othello and Greek-Roman mythology of Psyche and Cupid. [edit] Popular belief is that Kathakali is emerged from "Krishnanattam"‚ the dance drama on the life and activities of Lord Krishna created by Sri Manavedan Raja‚ the Zamorin of Calicut (1585-1658 AD). Once Kottarakkara Thampuran‚ the Raja
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four “Ages of Humankind”. He begins with the Golden Ages‚ where he describes to be a time of purity in humanity and the fertile land continues to prosper throughout “everlasting spring” (Ovid‚ Metamorphoses 1: 89-12). This period was known to be the climax of ‘peace and quiet’ on Earth as there were no warfare or negative qualities in human emotions. With the overruling of Saturn by Jupiter‚ his ascension was the beginning of The Silver Age as Ovid asserts. It was in this age that crops were planted
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it seems she is completely immersed in her primal scene‚ setting the tone for a true parallel for readers to think about. Beloved is now a complete manifestation of her African mother whom she witnessed being murdered aboard the slave ship. The climax of this sensation occurs when she realizes that her mother willfully succumbed to dying aboard the ship‚ leaving Beloved feeling abandoned and betrayed. Kirwan attributes the way she treats Sethe to her considering Sethe as her mother. The conglomeration
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Romeo & Juliet Essay Fate‚ most people don’t even believe in it; in fact some don’t even know what it is. There are many definitions of Fate‚ but most seem to revolve around something like a force—in which no one can control—in life. But one of the few people—in that small percentage—that do believe in fate‚ so happens to include William Shakespeare himself‚ and he tries to proof Fate to be true through figurative language and incidents‚ in his book Romeo and Juliet. This story is about two families
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Hermia is told by her father that by the law of Athens she must ‘wed Demetrius’. The law stated that if a father chose his daughter a husband‚ then she must marry him regardless of love. Daughters were expected to dote on their fathers because they legally belong to men and everything they owned belonged to the man they were owed by. Hermia is prepared to disobey the law to marry Lysander‚ who is seen by Egeus (Hermia’s father) as having stolen her heart by ‘feigning love’. Disobeying your father
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Parthian returns the military standers after pre-battels‚ and that was the victory that this sculpture was made for. Surrounding this area are Sol and Caelus‚ the sun and sky gods with some Roman females that refer to the Pax Romana. That means the sun will shine all over the empire‚ brining with her the peace to the citizens; and of course‚ Augustus is the main reason. Beneath that there are the gods Apollo and Diana‚ the two main gods in the Roman Pantheon. Augustus as I mentioned is a supporter
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friend that she effects the change in Johnsy’s psyche that causes her to become well. Sue’s determination to do what she can for her friend saves Johnsy’s life. There is no doubt that Sue loves Johnsy as she has thought about what the doctor has told her and done everything what can save Johnsy‚ even convincing Behrman that he paints the last leaf onto the glass of the window outside‚ what‚ unfortunately caused the death of Mr. Behrman. The climax in that text is presented by the moment‚ when Johnsy
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Holden Caulfield - The protagonist and narrator of the novel‚ Holden is a sixteen-year-old junior who has just been expelled for academic failure from a school called Pencey Prep. Although he is intelligent and sensitive‚ Holden narrates in a cynical and jaded voice Ackley - Holden’s next-door neighbor in his dorm at Pencey Prep. Ackley is a pimply‚ insecure boy with terrible dental hygiene. He often barges into Holden’s room and acts completely oblivious to Holden’s hints that he should leave
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