The Arkansas Philanthropic Orchestra (APO): APO was founded in 2008 by a group of people who have been inspired by music and have a great love for it. Miles Fish was the leading pioneer in the founding of this Orchestra. Their goal in establishing the Orchestra was to provide professional performance opportunities for musicians‚ educational concerts for younger people and provide an after-school string program. Steven Byess is currently running the Orchestra and strives to build the community with
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Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Grant Wood ARTS 1301.002 Fall 2011 Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Grant Wood This will be evaluating the way in which Grant wanted the public to view this art work. This is how he imagined Paul Revere in the event of the Revolutionary War when he was a child. I will be explaining the meaning behind colors and values used as well as other identifying elements in the painting. Grant painted the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere to not only show how he imagined it but also
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Memling lived in Bruges in 1465 where he garnered many commissions from Flemish and foreign citizens. Memling was known for his portrait work and depictions of the Virgin Mary. In his 1487 painting‚ named Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhove‚ Memling combines both of his skills to create a painting that is similar to Campin’s Merode Altarpiece‚ done between 1425 and 1428. The many comparisons of these paintings show that the Northern Flemish paintings during the Early Renaissance held a persistent style‚ but
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allowed printing of the books 3. What is a consort? an instrument ensemble consisting of a flute‚ lute‚ cittern‚ violin‚ bandore and the bass viola de gamba 4. Who was Guillaume Dufay? What contributions did he make to Renaissance music? A fraco-flemish composer. He wrote music in every form that was available and his music influenced many composers. 5. Who was William Byrd? What contributions did he make to Renaissance music? a composer who created consort music. Composed 470 pieces and influenced
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colloquially and occasionally used by some Dutch people in the sense of "Nederlands" (Dutch)‚ but then often with the intention of contrasting with other types of Dutch people or language‚ for example Limburgish‚ the Belgian form of the Dutch language ("Flemish")‚ or even any southern variety of Dutch within the Netherlands itself. However‚ in English there is no commonly used adjective for "Holland". "Dutch" refers to the Netherlands as a whole‚ not just the region of Holland. "Hollands" is ordinarily
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Giorgio Vasari‚ whose style he initially copied. In Rome‚ the light-dark painting of Caravaggio impressed him‚ while compositional solutions can in part be traced to Bartholomeus Spranger‚ who was resident in Rome. This painting is an example of the Flemish-influenced style of portraiture of the second half of the sixteenth century that was dubbed the "international court style". Formerly given to Pulzone‚ the painting was attributed to Zucchi in 1974. It probably depicts Clelia Farnese‚ the illegitimate
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overview of obesity and then they go through the history of obesity. The history is dated back to the 1700s. "Throughout much of the 1700s and 1800s‚ women were expected to be full-figured‚ in the manner of the nudes painted by seventeenth-century Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens" (2) express the authors. The women in Rubens’ paintings were bigger girls. The girls were not real skinny and they had some fat on them. Society has different views on each century of obesity. Society goes back and forth
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Henry VII of England The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw] Innovation is the process of creating something new. Innovation is impossible without passion. Innovators ultimately see the world differently. Innovators end up becoming obsessed with taking the world from as it is to as it should be. Many innovators in the for-profit sector focus
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Many things contributed to the crisis of the later middle Ages. There was inflation throughout the Northern Europe. Torrential rain ruined what little crops farmers had and caused a "great famine." Since many people had little to eat they were not able to receive vitamins and became very unhealthy. They became susceptible to diseases and death. Many villages became abandoned‚ since work could not be found people resorted to living on the streets. It was a vicious cycle and very hard to improve conditions
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3rd of January 1840‚ in Flemish Brabant Tremelo‚ Belgium. St Damien’s family life St Damien (Original name: Jozef De Veuster) was born to Joannes Franciscus De Veuster and his wife Anne-Catherine Wouters in the village of Tremelo in Flemish Brabant. He was the 7th of 8 children who lived on their family farm in Tremmelo. His parents were hard working farmers and were economically stable and brought up their children peacefully in the Catholic faith. They were Flemish speaking but he educated
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