The Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is by Miguel Cabrera and was created around 1750. The artwork depicts a portrait of a Catholic nun‚ Sor Juana. The artwork is located in Latin America in the Spanish colonies of Mexico. Sor Juana joined the religious order of the Catholic Church and became a nun in order to pursue her intellectual interests. Sor Juana is depicted looking straight at the view and the iconography of the portrait is quite typical of nun portraits from 18th century Mexico. She
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insight into how the business was ran by merchants. They also detail the hardships experienced by those traded like animals. When reading accounts from both sides‚ you see how truly unfair the business was. Antera Duke’s diary paints an inaccurate portrait of the African slave trade by making it out to be business as usual. Meanwhile‚ Mahommah Baquaqua’s autobiography shines light on the harsh
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Evaluation Essay Rio Salado College Kimberly De Luca Marilyn Manson candidly and vividly recounts his metamorphosis from frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered celebrity in America. Marilyn Manson‚ born Brian Warner‚ is the real life story of how growing up being molested by a neighbor‚ a grandfather with an abnormal sexual perversion‚ traumatically affected Manson in such a way he has become one of the top ten controversial rock stars in America. The trauma put Manson
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The Bedroom by Vincent Van Gogh Although viewing a painting by definition‚ includes the process of visual perception‚ it is not limited to the “eye” of the beholder. I have chosen to look at Van Gogh’s 1888 oil on canvas painting‚ The Bedroom. What one “sees” in any image is colored by a plethora of factors that inform the viewer-consciously and unconsciously. Thus‚ Plato’s argument about the objectivety of art‚ its quantifiable ability to be “judged” is based on a flimsy‚ static version
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Overall in the novel Portrait‚ religion is depicted as an overbearing burden which clouds and heavies the mind and conscious while assuming power over its believers. From early on in his life‚ religion hinders Stephen and his desires. At the beginning of the novel Stephen likes a young girl and thinks of marrying her later in life. His mother finds this completely wrong due to the fact that the girl’s family is Protestant‚ and not Catholic like Stephen’s family. As Stephen grows up‚ especially
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preoccupied with his own conscious whilst avoiding the demands of his body . The novel thus becomes thematically concerned with the connection between the body and mind as the displacement of presence within the self. Similarly Adams writes that Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a text concerned with the body and ‘the idea of self as a body’ . However Joyce provides a penetrating insight into the life of the main character Stephen Dedalus who accepts the limitations of the physical body as
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No artist has left a loftier or more penetrating personal testament than Rembrandt van Rijn. In more than 90 portraits of himself that date from the outset of his career in the 1620s to the year of his death in 1669‚ he created an autobiography in art that is the equal of the finest ever produced in literature even of the intimately analytical Confessions of St. Augustine.1 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606– 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered
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named commander-in-chief of the Papal States. Francesco spent most of his career in the Papal Service. His son‚ Francesco Maria II was the last Duke of Urbino from his bloodline. This portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere was created between 1536 and 1538. It illustrates the use of armor within a portrait‚ not necessarily for battle but to portray his social status as a Duke. He is shown in beautiful‚ shining armor. He
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The three works that I have studied are all works of portraiture‚ not just portraiture but all the works are self-portraits. These artists use color to emphasize the tone and mood of the art. Van Gogh uses various cool blue tones in “Self portrait with Bandaged Ear” to set the visual path and give rise to rhythm. Frida uses repeated golds and warm browns to harmonize the “Self Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser”. She also uses vivid colors to emphasize the flowers and “beautiful” things. As far of
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Self Portrait with a Bandaged ear and pipe Production background After having dreamt about an artist community for a long time‚ Van Gogh finally bought a ‘yellow house’ in Arles and invite Paul Gauguin. There Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived together‚ discussed artwork and focused on producing works of art. Gauguin makes a portrait of Van Gogh in front of one of his sunflower canvases‚ which Van Gogh describes as "certainly me‚ but me gone mad." However‚ their frequent personality clashes lead
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