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    26 JUDY CHICAGO’S DINNER PARTY A Personal Vision of Women’s History JOSEPHINE WITHERS In the fifteenth century‚ Christine de Pisan dreamt of building an ideal city for eminent and virtuous women‚ and with the help of her three "muses‚" the sisters Reason‚ Rectitude‚ and Justice‚ she reflected on the many women in history and mythology who might live together in this Cité des Dames. Almost exactly four centuries later‚ the American sculptor and feminist Harriet Hosmer envisioned a beautiful temple

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    22 sep 2013 ch3 test monday fresco-used for large murals painted directly on walls. -fresco secco paint to dry surface paint chips quickly plaster artist needs to apply color to it. reaction binds color and plaster together last long time -buon fresco true fresco Michaelangelo oil paint has been around since the 15th century oil paint is powdered pigment with oil oil takes longer to dry takes couple of days became choice of medium for rencont fabrics‚ needlework‚ and weaving transitions

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    Kimberly Kurata HI 30 Barbarian to Humanist Francois Rabelais wrote‚ Gargantua in the 16th century as a satirical short story depicting a giant named Gargantua and his transition from his barbaric ways to civilized humanistic way of living. The story takes place during the time of transition from the Medieval Era to the Renaissance. It went from a time of scholasticism and monasticism to a time of humanism and secularism. The Renaissance gave the modern world secularism‚ humanism and individualism

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    Zexius and I had been best friends since the day we began kindergarten at St. Bertha Holofernes Elementary School. As the years went on we began a routine‚ after school we spent our time listening to music in the parking lot of the local library‚ eating a great amount of sugary sweets. Generally speaking‚ our topics for conversation ranged from girls‚ sports‚ school‚ weather‚ and classic rock music. Zexius and I put in a countless number of hours working for the local pizza shop‚ washing numerous

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    Open University Course A316:- Modern Art: Practices & Debates‚ 1995 ’It quickly emerged that the proper and unique area of competence of each art coincided with all that was unique to the nature of its medium. The task of self-criticism became to eliminate from the effects of each art any and every effect that might conceivably be borrowed from or by the medium of any other art. Thereby each art would be rendered ’pure ’‚ and in its ’purify ’ find the guarantee of its standards of quality as

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    Classics lead to humanism Worldly pleasures Patrons of the arts The Renaissance man The Renaissance woman The Renaissance Revolutionizes art Realistic painting & sculpture Leonardo‚ Renaissance Man Raphael advances realism Anguissola & Gentileschi Renaissance writers change literature Petrarch & Boccaccio Machiavelli advises rulers Vittoria Colonna Unit 2 – The Northern Renaissance Cultural interaction – in the 1400s‚ the ideas of the Italian Renaissance began to spread to Northern

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    95 thesis Act of supremacy Anglican church Baroque compared to renaissance (linear‚ painterly etc Bernini Chiaroscuro Cogito ergo sum Diet of Worms First music for pleasure of listener First self portrait Garden of Earthy Delights Gentileschi Galileo Grunewald Hamlet (Mousetrap‚ Gertrude‚ what happened to Ophelia‚ Hamlet‚ King‚ character flaws‚ etc) Henry Indulgence John Newton Martin Luther Moliere Pachelbel Protestant reformation Rembrandt Revenge tragedy Rubenesque

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    1) Chapter 21: The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy a. The Early Renaissance in Italy (1400-1500) 2) Chapter 22: Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy a. The High and Late Renaissance in Italy (1500-1600) 3) Chapter 20: Late Medieval And Early Renaissance Northern Europe a. The Renaissance in Northern Europe in the 15th century 4) Chapter 23: High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain a. The Renaissance in Northern Europe in the 16th century 5) Chapter 24: The Baroque

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    Tammy Moran Art History 225 05/17/2014 All the David’s Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640 David Slaying Goliath Oil on Canvas 123x99 cm ca. 1616 Norton Simon Museum‚ Pasadena CA Ruben’s work is by far the most colorful and vibrant of the nine pieces selected. It is most similar to Michelangelo’s painting (9). Showing David about to decapitate a defeated Goliath. Ruben’s Goliath is not nearly as daunting inn size as Michelangelo’s. David is stepping on the head of Goliath after stoning

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    Test #1 Review List • Jan van Eyck‚ Arnolfini Portrait‚ 1434‚ oil on wood panel‚ 33 x 22 ½” [pic] • Robert Campin‚ Merode Altarpiece‚ c. 1425-1430s‚ oil on wood panel‚ center 25 ¼ x 24 7/8”; each wing approx. 25 3/8 x 10 ¾” [pic] • Jan van Eyck‚ Ghent Altarpiece‚ 1432‚ oil on panel‚ 11’ 5 ¾” x 15’ 1 ½” [pic] • Rogier van der Weyden‚ Deposition‚ c. 1435-1438‚ oil on wood panel‚ 7’ 2 5/8” x 8’ 7 1/8” [pic] • Hugo van der Goes‚ Portinari Altarpiece

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