In his “Venus at a Mirror” Paul Rubens presents the nude beauty of the goddess of Love‚ Venus. The artist portrays the goddess of love from a back view‚ seated in the center of his composition. An adolescent cupid is presented in the left foreground‚ holding a mirror with the reflection of Venus’ face on its surface‚ while a dark-skinned‚ exotic handmaid fills the upper right of the painting fondling the golden hair of the Venus. The three figures form a lunette that emphasizes the mirror that frames
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Shakespeare creates a dramatic situation which portrays the theme of the book for further understanding of the dreamy play. “Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgement taste . Wings‚ and no eyes‚ figure unheedy haste. And therefore is Love said to be a child Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. As waggish boys in game themselves forswear‚ So the boy Love is
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middle of the image. In the painting‚ Fragonard use a composition to enhance the message of playful love‚ the two cupids cuddled‚ a stone lap dog‚ and dolphin‚ and a statue of little Cupid. He provided a visual focus in the splash of a sunlight as a subject matter‚ which the lady shows a playful touch as her slipper has flipped off her foot into the direction of a little statue of Cupid as she swing easily. He uses a fluid‚ loose brush-stroke for keeping the edges soft‚ alongside his main figures and
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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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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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There are light shades of blue and an off-white giving the cupid a dirty appearance. Clive Wilson and Robert Cumming were both lavish in their praise. Cézanne’s work‚ however‚ continues to polarise opinion. The ‘public laughed at his paintings’ (Rousseau‚ JR‚ 1953‚ p.2) and there was an outcry from sections of
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