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    Chinese Artifacts

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    Title: Four Anecdotes from the Life of Wang Xizhi‚ ca. 1310 By: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese‚ 1254–1322) Type: Handscroll‚ ink on paper Size: 9 5/8 x 46 1/8 in. (24.4 x 117 cm) The artist of this calligraphy scroll‚ Zhao Mengfu‚ was highly praised by the Yuan emperor Renzong as unrivaled traditional Chinese polymath (for a lack of a better word). It is said that the emperor admired him for possessing the following seven outstanding qualities: wide learning‚ Song royal ancestry‚ elegant and charismatic

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    Straatism In Ancient Greece

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    Klever Vasquez Prof. Mathew Corcoran Abstract The political development of ancient Greece brought forth a relationship with the fabrication and further development of the self. As the psyche evolved from the Homeric Era to the Platonic Era‚ the individual self was faced with internal conflict. Statism had deep roots in Greek government by the Platonic Era; the mind manifested from primordial psyche into platonic/current day psyche given statism’s ability to open doors into individuality. It allowed

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    There are two registers‚ the one closest to the top being the main focus of this piece; the scribe Senu. (“Stele of Senu”) The figure standing at the right end of the piece was a royal scribe named Senu. He is portrayed as honoring the gods Imsety (middle) and Hapi (left) We can tell he is honoring them‚ because he shows a formal frontility‚ facing the gods.

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    There are several Egyptian documents that not only mention the Israelites in their texts‚ but also tie the Bible to historical facts. Egyptian documents such as the Tell el-Amarna letters‚ a large "stele" of the Menephtah‚ and the Elephantine papyri not only tell the history of Egypt‚ they also coincide with biblical scripture. The documents confirm not only dates‚ certain numbers‚ and rituals‚ such as circumcision‚ but places and event‚ e.g. The Exodus‚ of biblical stories. According to James

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    There are many artworks between the cultures of Ancient Near East through the Medieval Era that demonstrate ways political leaders constructed powerful identities‚ including the Emperor Justinian and His Attendants‚ The Maquamat of Al-Hariri‚ and the Stele of Naram-Sin. The Emperor Justinian and His Attendants artwork is from San Vitale‚ Ravenna‚ 547 BCE and is a perfect example to show how political leaders has powerful identities. This mosaic shows power through the style and context of the art piece

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    Mesopotamian Art

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    White Temple and Ziggurat Ziggurats are pyramidal structures with flat tops‚ usually constructed as portions of a temple complex by many groups within the cradle of civilization. While we only have the stone remains today‚ they were more than just architectural sights to be seen. The bricks were glazed with different colors according to their level and many of the walls sported astrological artwork. At the top of ziggurats were the actual temples. This positioning was advantageous for the priests

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    was the Hammurabi’s code which was discovered by Egyptologist‚ Gustave Jequier and Jaques de Morgan in the year 1902 CE‚ during the famous Susa expedition in modern day Iran. During the expedition‚ Gustave Jequier unearthed a massive basalt stone stele covered in an ancient dialect of Mesopotamian cuneiform. To decipher the long dead language‚ Jaques commissioned cuneiform expert‚ Jean-Vincent Scheil‚ to decipher the text. In the year 1902 CE‚ Scheil published his remarkable findings within the

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    The rules were recorded on a stele tablet‚ a stele tablet is a huge block of stone that was placed at the temple so everyone could see them. When he showed these laws to his people he claimed that he didn’t write the laws only on his authority but on the words of the gods. Since the laws were

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    Peter Eisenman

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    MICHAEL GRAVES Submitted to : Submitted by : Mr. Ashok Pareek Kandarp Rajyaguru 2010UAR139 PETER EISENMAN Introduction * Peter Eisenman was born in 1932 in Newark‚ New Jersey. He studied architecture from 1951 to 1955 at Cornell University in Ithaca‚ New York‚ and later at Columbia University in New York City‚ and concluded his academic training in 1963 with a doctoral thesis on design theory. * He worked together with Charles Gwathmay‚ John Hejduk‚ Michael Graves and

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    organs of flowering plants. The tyloses are the structures present in the woody tissues of dicot stems. These are the extension of xylem parenchyma cells into the vessel elements(NEET-II 2016). Cortex tissue is present in between the epidermis and stele. It is multilayered and is made up of parenchymatous cells with big intercellular spaces (NEET-II 2016). Wood of gymnosperms does not contain vessels.e.g- Pinus is vesseless. Vessels are the characteristic feature of angiosperms (AMU 2015). Protoxylem

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