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    Renaissance‚ Donatello created a sculpture of David by recreating a scene from the Bible. As time passed Michelangelo created a newer version of David that wasn’t so youthful and had more detail than Donatello’s David. Sculpting had evolved over time when Bernini finally created an elaborate David in mid-fight. All of these sculptures were acceptable in the time in which they were created but as time went by people’s preferences had changed and so had the purpose of the sculptures.

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    to ignite the fervor of the people for the Church and its beliefs. Some artists during this period‚ however‚ retain a more classical style. Works to identify and know in depth: Artist Title Date Bernini David 1600s (19-7) [pic] Bernini Ecstasy of Saint Theresa 1600s (19-1‚ 19-8) [pic] Bernini Saint Peter’s‚ Vatican City‚ Rome 1600s (19-4‚ 19-5) Caravaggio Conversion of Saint Paul 1600s (19-17) [pic] Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Slaying Holofernes 1600s (19-20) [pic] Velázquez Surrender

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    St. Peters Basillica St. Peters Basilica in Rome is one of the most influential Christian sites found within contemporary society. This building‚ complete with an obelisk‚ an enclosed piazza‚ a central façade and a dome‚ is the work of several architects and programs throughout the Early Christian‚ Renaissance and Baroque periods. The importance of St. Peters Church is its foundation on a necropolis with the tomb of St. Peter‚ a Christian martyr and the first pope of Rome. When considering the plan

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    Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable

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    VENICE IN 14TH CENTURY Venice’s maritime empire: 13th - 15th century In the scramble to grab Byzantine land after the 4TH crusade‚ in 1204‚ the Venetians concentrate on territories suiting their maritime interests. They take the islands of Corfu and Crete. They yield Corfu ten years later to the Greek ruler of Epirus (the nearest part of the mainland)‚ but Crete remains a Venetian possession for more than four centuries. It is the first in a chain of valuable staging posts to the eastern

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    The Baroque Era The Seventeenth Century Nikita Reid   “A General Overview of the Chapter” During the end of the sixteenth century to the mid eighteenth century‚ the Baroque Era prospered in Europe and its provinces. This section studies the Baroque expressions and the political setting against which they created. The writing of this period incorporated various subjects and structures‚ some recognizable yet numerous new and inventive. As the government developed progressively absolutist the

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    Garrett Eugair AP European History Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Notes Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe Biographical information Polish priest and scientist educated at the University of Krakow wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543 Commissioned to find astronomical justification so that the papacy could change the calendar so that it could correctly calculate the date of Easter‚ Copernicus’s

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    Andrea Mantegna  (1431 – September 13‚ 1506) was a North Italian Renaissance painter‚ a student ofRoman archeology‚ and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time‚ Mantegna experimented with perspective‚ e.g.‚ by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty‚ metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. He also led a workshop that was the leading producer ofprints in Venice before

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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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    The experience Parks speaks of is ultimately different for every person who attempts to recreate or translate a work of literature. This explains why there are sometimes several different versions of the same story. Charles Martin and Gianlorenzo Bernini have their own original experience and interpretation of Ovid’s “Apollo and Daphne” in The Metamorphoses. Their translations contain several similarities and differences which can make

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