Ugolino and His Sons Introduction to Art Principles City College of New York‚ CUNY Presented by: Markous Soliman Presented to: Prof. William Behnken Art had played an important role in building up civilizations from all over the world through thousands of centuries. It is and will always still the way of projecting artists’ ideas and thoughts into meaningful and tangible objects which we called “work of art”. In addition‚ It was the path through all these years that dug
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze was born in 1725. He was born into a middle-class family. Greuze then grew up to study painting in Lyon in the 1740’s beneath the popular portrait artist‚ Charles Grandon. He study with Grando for about ten years. In 1750 Greuze moved to Paris‚ he had gotten accepted the Royal Academy as a student. Then he was admitted as an Associate member of the Academy when he submitted a few of his painting. Which were A Father Reading the Bible to His Family‚ this painting shows an older
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Jean Baptiste Lully was a prolific composer who is best known for establishing French Opera. (Boynick) Born in Florence on the 28th of November 1632‚ (Boynick) Giovanni Battista Lulli was a miller ’s son. (Sadie 2000 pg 166) Lully first arrived in France in March of 1646 (Jean Baptiste Lully) to work as an attendant for a female courtier. (Sadie 2000 pg. 166) "During his six years in her household‚ Lully‚ already an expert at the guitar and violin‚ polished his skills as a performer and composer
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Jean-Baptiste Lully continued to write music until he passed away in 1687 as a result of an injury sustained while conducting Te Deum‚ one of his own works. Somehow‚ he struck his foot with a long conducting staff during the performance for King Louis XIV’s get well concert. The wound continued to get increasingly more infected and he eventually developed Gangrene. Lully’s love for dance resulted in him refusing to amputate the infected leg. The infection then spread to the greater part of his brain
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analyzing art‚ one must understand three things: how it is made‚ what it is showing‚ and how the two create meaning. By fully understanding these things‚ a deeper appreciation for the artwork can be formed. How can someone know what to look for when analyzing art? Certain components like lines‚ colors‚ light‚ scale‚ and movement are a few among many to be aware of. Knowing the history of the artwork and/or the artist can hint to the meaning as well. One work of art‚ Laocoön and His Sons‚ once analyzed
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille as characterized by Patrick Süskind Patrick Süskind ’s Perfume is the gripping tale of a sociopathic young man‚ Jean- Baptiste Grenouille‚ who ’s passion for scent ultimately leads him to slaughter twenty five young virgins. Süskind chooses to develop Grenouille ’s character slowly and methodically‚ allowing Grenouille ’s sociopathic tendencies to emerge and ripen along with the plot. The reader ’s first impression of the character is manipulated by Süskind ’s clever use
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Water Jousting In France “La joute des mariniers‚ entre le pont Notre-Dame et le Pont-au-Change‚” by the french artist Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet‚ was created in 1751. The name of the painting‚ when translated from French to English‚ says‚ “The jousting of the sailors‚ between the Pont Notre-Dame and the Pont-au-Change.” Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet uses certain shades of colors with counterclockwise eye movement‚ many little details to give a different perspective in the painting about water
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Laocoön and His Sons "The prototypical icon of human agony"‚ The statue of Laocoön and His Sons‚ also known as Laocoön Group has been praised in high term ever since its excavation from The vineyard of Felice De Fredis‚ Rome in 1506. Today it remains in the public display at Museo Pio-Clementino‚ a part of the Vatican Museum‚ Vatican City. This essay is an attempt to address the marble sculpture which is considered a work of high art‚ of great value and significance to the species. The tale
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This essay is an attempt to address the marble sculpture commonly known as Laocoon and His Sons‚ and why exactly I believe it to be a work of high art‚ of great value and significance to the species. Laocoon and His Sons is a marble sculpture representing a scene that is a part of the tale of the siege and invasion of Troy. Laocoon was the protagonist in a play by Sophocles that is now lost. He was also written about by Virgil. The statue itself is one of the most famous sculptures of Greek and
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“evolution”? Charles Darwin probably came into your mind first‚ didn’t he? Surprisingly‚ Darwin is not the only evolutionary theorist‚ as there are two others with similarly different ideas. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck‚ Alfred Russel Wallace‚ and Charles Darwin all investigated this field of science. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was the first to have extended theories of evolution. In 1794‚ Lamarck started working in the natural history museum‚ Jardin des Plantes‚ and was in charge of studying insects and worms
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