Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni has evolved as writer; naturalist and a modernist later. Naturalism was a literary movement that was taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions‚ heredity‚ and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. Giovanni shows naturalism in her works "Poem (No Name No. 2)"‚ and “[Untitled] (For Margaret Danner)”. Just to give a little background on modernism‚ Modernism is when writers proclaimed a new
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Courage Award‚ National Association of Radio and Television Announcers Award for Best Spoken Word Album‚ and the ALC Lifetime Achievement Award (Giovanni 1). These are a small portion of her numerous accomplishments. But‚ who is Nikki Giovanni and how did she become such a decorated and recognized poet? Nikki Giovanni was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.‚ 7 June 1943 in Knoxville‚ Tennessee. At a young age she considered herself a dreamer. She loved reading books and some of her favorite authors
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When Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was twenty-four‚ in the year 1487‚ he decided to hold a disputation. This was a fairly common occurrence in the schools: a question would be stated‚ and a respondent would take up a position on the question and hold it against the arguments of the learned people present. What made Pico’s unusual was that he proposed to hold his own against all comers on no fewer than nine hundred separate points of philosophy. It never happened‚ because the Pope got hold of
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obvious by his masterpiece‚ The Legend of the True Cross: Constantine’s Dream‚ c.1455. Opposed to van Eyck‚ a Dutchman‚ who prioritized furnishing his painting with a ride array of textures‚ as seen in his masterpiece‚ The Betrothal of the Arnolfini‚(The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait)‚1434. In fifteenth century Italy‚ art had its own style‚ artists from that region and time period were commissioned by the Catholic Church to recreate biblical stories and paint them on the plastered walls of the
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Giovanni Vaccarello‚ a retired machinist form Brooklyn‚ New York‚ never took the safety of his family for granted. He often drove Maria‚ 18‚ and Concetta‚ 17‚ to their part time jobs. John‚ his fourteen year old son‚ was to wear a beeper at all times so that he would never be out of reach. Giovanni routinely walked Cathy‚ his wife of twenty five years‚ one block to her job at the beauty salon. But with all the precautions Giovanni took‚ nothing could stop him from Abraham Meyers‚ a 25-year-old
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Nikki Giovanni Biography Nikki Giovanni is one of the best known mixed poets who has reached prominence in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Nikki has wrote many poems and books 1970-early 2004‚ most of what she writes is with passion‚inspiration and with lots of feeling. Giovanni’s poetry express strong racial pride and respect for family‚ giovanni has written Creation‚ Love Poems‚ The Collected Poems Of Nikki Giovanni and The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. She was born in Knoxville‚Tennessee in
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The Arnolfini Portrait‚ created by Jan van Eyck‚ is a complex oil painting that was created in 1434. It is a representational work because it references real life events‚ which in this case‚ are the marriage rituals of that day in age between husband and wife. For the very first time in history‚ van Eyck became the perfect eye-witness in the truest sense of the term. This portrait is very complex due to the fact of its iconography. It is very symbolic and has been interpreted in several‚ countless
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Tapestries 60. Chartres Cathedral 61. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX from a Bible moralisee 62. Rottgen Pieta 63. Arena Chapel at Padua 64. Golden Haggadah 65. Alhabra Palace 66. Merode Altarpiece 67. Pazzi Chapel 68. The Arnolfini
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“Arnolfini Marriage” is a very famous painting by Jan Van Eyck painted in the early 15th century‚ which is in the National Gallery in London. According to the Catalogue of the National Gallery‚ the painting is just a portrait of the couple Arnolfini that is showing their marriage. Waldemar Januszczak‚ an author and presenter‚ believes that this portrait was wrongly named and it should have been called “the Arnolfini Pregnancy”. Januszczak believes that Mrs. Arnolfini is pregnant and she is dead at
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Greek texts that constituted the mainstream of the Italian Renaissance. Petrarch ‚ a key figure in the Renaissance literature is best remembered for the Canzoniere‚ a collection of love sonnets written in vernacular Italian. Petrarch’s friend‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ was a pre-eminent writer whose fiction‚The Decameron is regarded as one of the earliest works of prose writing in Italian. Boccaccio was the master of the spoken language and of the swift‚ vivid‚ narrative style which is free from the
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