Saint Louis Union Station The Saint Louis Union Station (Figure 1)‚ located on Market Street between the 18th Street and the 20th Street in downtown Saint Louis‚ was built in 1894 to be used as a train shed and transportation for travelers. This enabled the travelers to get around whether it is around St. Louis‚ around the United States‚ and even into Canada. The architect of the St. Louis Union Station is a German-American man named Theodore C. Link after he had won the design competition for
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The Renaissance artistic time period took place in the late 1300’s and early 1400’s. Their art is known for their religiously inspired art work and for their use of fresco and oil paintings. Some of the most well knowns Renaissance art work has revolved on Jesus Christ and the catholic religion. Their patrons were influenced by their own faith‚ humanity and even science. (Stokstad‚ 294). Nothern Europe was known for the Renaissance artistic period. The Baroque artistic time was during the 1700’s
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The Last Supper was painted by Leonardo DA Vinci‚ an Italian artistic production. From the Town of Vinci. He is one of the most extraordinary painter‚ architects‚ and gifted philosopher of all clock sentence. Da Vinci was Born on April fifteen‚ 1452‚ in the neighborhood of Vinci but spent a large share of his life in Florence where he started painting and after a particular period- painting. When he was fourteen‚ Leonardo began workings as a studio male child to Andrea del Verrocchio‚ who at the
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Wars that scarred the Late Middle Ages were the Hundred Years War and the War of the Roses‚ which brought about the climax of this era. As Europe became devastated by war‚ art still stood. A renowned artist of that time was Giotto‚ who painted the fresco"Noli Me Tangere"‚ using the technique of water color on wet plaster. Giotto also introduced weight and roundness of people in art. The Middle Ages ended in war‚ but the future would bring a peace to the past storms. The Middle Ages was an era that
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"Arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and‚ with Leonardo da Vinci‚ the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor‚ architect‚ painter‚ and poet‚ he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general." I choose this man because he is one of the more talents and known artists in the cultural family. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) Michelangelo‚ the second of five brothers was born on March
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Fra Angelico: Annunciation (c. 1440–45)‚ fresco‚ north corridor‚ monastery of S Marco‚ Florence; photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource‚ NYThe Renaissance refers to the era in Europe from the 14th to the 16th century in which a new style in painting‚ sculpture and architecture developed after the Gothic. Although a religious view of the world continued to play an important role in the lives of Europeans‚ a growing awareness of the natural world‚ the individual and collective humanity’s worldly
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Ways of presenting the subjects 1. Realism > Presenting subject as it is 2. Abstraction > “to separate from” a.) Distortion > misshapen/twisted b.) Elongation > stretch vertically (thin) c.) Mangling > cut‚ mutilated‚ lacerated d.) Cubism > geometric shapes e.) Abstract expressionism > colors are splashed/mixed 3. Symbolism : a.) Sign > specific /definite b.) Symbols > deeper meanings (Da Vinci / Michelangelo 4. Fauvism > Latin word “wild beast
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Tibetan Culture The Tibetan culture did not just appear on its own‚ it was created because the geographic and climatic aspects of the area. It has been influenced by its neighboring countries like‚ Nepal‚ India‚ and China‚ but still remains a very distinct‚ influential culture. Buddhism has had a major impact on the Tibetan culture since it was introduced in the 7th century. Buddhist missionaries had come from the neighboring countries and they had exposed the Tibet’s to their ways of literature
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Degli Scrovegni as a family chapel (Roberts‚ 1998). It tried to bring out how the ancient Roman arena looked like. The arena chapel is found in Italy at a place known as Padua‚ Veneto. Its interior wall is decorated all over by a sequential series of fresco painting that illustrates the life of the Virgin Mary and the life of Jesus Christ. The painting was done in between the year 1303 and 1310 (Roberts‚ 1998). The theme depicted in the picture is whether Salvation is possible; this was due to the intention
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Renaissance is the term used to describe the period of European history that saw a renewed interest in the arts. The Renaissance began in 14th¬century Italy and spread to the rest of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period‚ the fragmented feudal society of the Middle Ages‚ with its agricultural economy and church¬dominated intellectual and cultural life‚ was transformed into a society increasingly dominated by central political institutions‚ with an urban‚ commercial economy and lay
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