Brittany LeBlanc Professor Holliday Art History 111A 15 November 2010 Gravestone of a Woman with Her Attendant The Gravestone of a Woman with her attendant is a sculpture created by an unknown artist and is now on display at the Getty Villa in Malibu‚ California. The sculpture is of a woman seated in a cushioned armchair‚ reaching out to lightly touch the top of a box or chest held by her attendant. We can tell from the sculpture that the women is of a higher class because of how her hair is
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By: Tony Pancho villa Doroteo Aranga learned to hate aristocratic Dons‚ who worked he and many other Mexicans like slaves‚ Doroteo Aranga also known as Pancho villa hated aristocratic because he made them work like animals all day long with little to eat. Even more so‚ he hated ignorance within the Mexican people that allowed such injustices. At the young age of fifteen‚ Aranga came home to find his mother trying to prevent the rape of his sister. Aranga shot the man and fled to the Sierra Madre
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In the early morning of March 9‚ 1916‚ Pancho Villa crossed the U.S. border and into history. On that day‚ Villa launched the first attack on American soil since the War of 1812‚ killing 18 Americans and leaving the small New Mexican town of Columbus in flames. Among the dead was one-time Las Crucen Charles D. Miller‚ a 1906 graduate of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and brother of college registrar J.O. Miller. "When the unidentified body was removed from the ruins
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Claude Monet had painted this wonderful Sunrise with oils on a canvas in the spring of 1873. Displayed at nineteen and a quarter by twenty-three and a half inches in the Impressionist room at the Getty Center‚ this magnificent work of art was one of the first examples of the Impressionist style of painting (Getty didactic placard). The focus of this painting is a boat sitting serenely in the water during sunrise. The boat is surrounded by several other ships captured in the dense morning fog‚ which
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Mustafa Hafezzada A Renewed Drive (Historical Site Report #2) The Getty Villa‚ located in Pacific Palisades‚ is by far the museum that resonates with me the most. From the artwork to the building itself‚ I’m in love. I went with a childhood friend of mine because I had an extra ticket and I coerced him to join me. The tickets were free‚ but the parking was fifteen dollars; a very fair price in my opinion. To get to the Getty Villa you must drive on a pathway that felt very rough in my car. I was
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The problem that Silvetti presents at the beginning of his prologue to “The Getty Villa” is one that deserves the most attention to students preparing to leave school and enter the profession – the “problematic relationship with the building that one of us would be asked to resdesign.” Silvetti (and the other architects) were tasked with “designing” a building that already been designed and built – yet they were going through the modernistic throws of the late 20th century where it was believed to
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Francisco Villa Melissa E. Bowlin Ozarka College Francisco "Pancho" Villa Francisco Villa was born Doroteo Arango in San Juan del Rio‚ Durango in 1877. Some resources say that he was actually born in 1879. Although Doroteo Arango was the man ’s original name‚ most people knew him as Francisco "Pancho" Villa. Francisco spent most of his life living in Durango‚ until at the age of 16‚ when he killed a man for raping his younger
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Pancho Villa: Outlaw to Revolutionary War hero Pancho Villa is mostly known as being a notorious leader during the Mexican Revolution‚ but he was not always depicted as the good guy. Although there is not much documented on his life before the outbreak of war‚ it is without a doubt that he was once a bandit on the run from the law (Quintana 8). His days of being an outlaw would eventually shape him and give him the experience he needed to become one of the greatest revolutionary leaders of his time
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The Tugendhat villa located in the Czech city of Brno‚ is simple‚ yet still mesmerizing to the eye of the guest as the intricate design gives you plenty to observe. Designed by Mies van der Rohe With such a simple design plan‚ the home offers a lucid plan. However‚ this floor-plan demonstrates plenty more than just simple geometric shapes. From the walls‚ to the materials‚ to the view‚ to the interaction between both living spaces‚ this house has a lot to offer. This exemplar of lights and shapes
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Pancho Villa - His real name was Doroteo Arango. He grew up as a Mexican peasant. After his father died he became a sharecropper to help support his family. At the age of 16‚ he shot and killed the owner of the hacienda who was attacking his younger sister. He then fled to live in the mountains and became a bandit. In 1896 he became the leader of bandits. They committed crimes and stole from the rich. He also gave to the poor and was seen as more a Robin Hood rather than a thief. He then changed
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