PART 1 1a) Identify the image of Jesus you have selected. During the 14th to 16th centuries‚ a time known as the Renaissance period occurred. During this time Jesus was seen as a human being‚ a normal man. Artists expressed their emotions and spirituality in their portraits of Jesus‚ emphasizing on humanism and naturalism. b) Identify the historical period that you have selected.. The Renaissance was a time of great social and cultural change in Europe. It was a period characterised by innovation
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polychromy term used to describe painting or painted decoration on the surface of sculpture polyptych An altarpiece or devotional work of art made of several panels joined together‚ often hinged so that its wings can be opened and closed as appropriate during Christian religious worship. post and lintel a basic type of architecture in which upright elements (posts) support a horizontal member (lintel). With this type of construction‚ the distance between the supports is determined by the weight
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In this legal study‚ the case of United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad‚ 40 U.S. 518 will be examined in relation to a supreme court precedent in the freeing of slaves in the American North . The date of the Supreme Court trial was 1841. The initial location of the Amistad trial began in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut in Hartford‚ Connecticut‚ but was eventually tried in Washington D.C. in the U.S. Supreme Court. The liberation of illegally
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secluded life in a town that is well outside the mainstream of established Dutch painting; ’s Hertogenbosch. What is known is that he was married‚ owned a house‚ and died at the age of sixty in 1516. He is also said to have contributed several altarpieces and stained glass window designs to the Cathedral of St. John in his native city. Therefore‚ it is through his work that one is forced to try to further examine the
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(1480–1515). The Garden of Earthly Delights measures about 13 feet by 7 feet when all three panels are open. This painting is housed in the Museo Del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Another triptych painting with the more traditional values for atriptych altarpiece is The Raising of The Cross by Peter Paul Rubens. This painting is from Flemish baroque time period and was painted during (1610-1611). Each are respectfully different in there on specific ways. The reason I have chosen to compare these paintings
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The main characteristics of Romanesque art:  simple compositions and very linear‚ elongated designs  There is very little sign of figurative imagery or any effort towards naturalistic depiction.  characteristics were meant to inspire the viewer to devout‚ religiously inspired awe and fear of the Creator and of course‚ of His representation here on earth in the body of the Holy Church  religious devotion- scenes of hellish creatures and tormented bodies abound
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Causes of the War of 1812 The War of 1812 was a very short war with no clear winner in the end. It ended through at treaty called the Treaty of Ghent. But what was the cause of the war? Well‚ there actually was more than just one cause. There were actually more than three. But three major causes were America’s determination to stay neutral‚ Britain’s desire for their trading partners to not trade with their enemies‚ and the slow mail in those days. One cause was America’s determination to stay
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From the mid-13th to 14th century the interaction of the Gothic‚ Byzantine‚ and antique Roman art‚ in the work of many outstanding individuals ‚ created a recognizably national culture in Italy (Barasch 14). In his frescoes and panel paintings‚ Giotto di Bondone revolutionized Italian art‚ developing a naturalism and drama that marks the first signs of the Renaissance (Marx). Though many artists were influenced by Giotto‚ such as Bernardo Daddi‚ his advances were not fully developed for a century
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other artist painting similar scenes. That same year Poussin became in contact with Casino dal Pozzo who was a collector at the time. And a year later Pozzo helped him secure the commission for The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus and the altarpiece for St. Peter’s. This altarpiece didn’t meet the criteria this lead to the end of his public painting career in Rome. Poussin devoted much of his art of the late 1620’s too romantic mythological stories where he took inspiration from Titian and other contemporary
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Brittany Hewing Art of the Renaissance 222-01 11/10/2014 In this essay I shall discuss two paintings I observed at the Art Institute of Chicago and compare the two as well. During our field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago even though we did not have enough time to properly view the pieces along with a large portion of the museum with pre-renaissance pieces in them were closed off to the public. Two pieces that really stuck out to me during the trip were: “Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)”
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