Dan Rebok Art History 100 3/2/2010 Compare/Contrast Paintings at Palmer The Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter 1650 by Pietro Vecchia is a rather unusual painting. The premise is that he must sacrifice his own daughter because of a deal with God. In the painting she has her arms across her chest covering her naked self and is bent over almost in a ball. This cowering is a stark difference to‚ Giovanni Baglione’s St Sebastian healed by an Angel 1603. Sebastian is in repose with his hands behind
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Three paintings depicting mental illness and how society tried to rid the people of these illnesses before modern time are Hieronymous Bosh (Flowers of Folly/Stones of Madness)‚ Brueghel’s Stone Operation‚ and Girolamo Di Benvenuto’s painting of Exorcism. In Bosh’s painting‚ there are four individuals: a man with a funnel hat‚ attempting to cut open the second man’s brain to extract the stone of madness‚ there is also a man who is holding a vase and a woman who is watching the event‚ while she balances
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depicts a very Romanesque portrait of King Napoleon I in a full military uniform riding on top of a horse that is kicking up onto its hind legs‚ while Napoleon is striking a pose with his right hand pointed up towards the sky. The Composition of this painting has Napoleon front and center in the middle of the canvas‚ on top of his horse‚ and he is actually highest figure on the canvas‚ most likely to signify his dominance as the ruler of France. Napoleon and his form a triangular composition with his
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Wailing Women‚ created by Ken Currie is a large-scale painting that attempts to capture the emotional trauma of war (figure 1). Currently located at the McMaster Art Gallery‚ this oil painting successfully conveys large-scale loss of human life through its expressionistic style. Currie’s choice of style allows for the figures to be more distorted and symbolic‚ making the piece more visually appealing. Rather than merely present the event to the viewer in an art form‚ the Currie creates an emotional
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The Power of Music The Power of Music (1847) is an iconic work of art that has helped to ensure William Sidney Mount a permanent reputation as one of the greatest American artists. It is a narrative genre painting with elements of portraiture commissioned by Charles M. Leupp. Owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art‚ The Power of Music is in Gallery 207: “American Art at Home and Abroad.”
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This rectangular canvas features a painted oval inhabited by figures set against a blue sky with clouds; the oval is surrounded by a yellow-brown border. In the lower half of the canvas‚ a muscular man in a horse-drawn chariot rides toward a classical building. Above him‚ a winged figure hovers with two trumpets‚ while below two women rest on a cloud supported by a winged putto. Other members of the scene include a half-man‚ half-horse figure‚ or centaur‚ and a soldier wearing a helmet. Figures populate
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In this essay I will explain The Conquest‚ who was involved. I will talk about who was affected and why. I will also talk about a painting of La Malinche and what I believe the meanings of the portrait explains. To start in the late 1400’s Cristobol colon was a conquistador that sailed for Spain. Landed in 1492 in the Caribbean’s that was sailing to India. He was lost but assumed he landed in India. His whole mission was for God‚ gold and glory. When he didn’t find enough gold‚ he went into the
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Compare and Contrast Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture to the Northern Renaissance Painting and Sculpture European History from 800 to 1648 CE November 7‚ 2008 The Duchy of Burgundy encompassed a territory from present-day eastern France northward to the sea‚ and included parts of modern Belgium and sections of the current Netherlands. It was the only state standing amid France and the vast Holy Roman Empire at the time. The dukes of Burgundy would best fit the description as a worthy
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Stroop was interested in the effects of interference and he tested it using colors‚ blocks and symbols to do this. Stroop used names of colors printed in incongruent ink‚ the same color ink‚ and in black ink to see if there was an effect that could show interference. He wanted to know how interference could be effected by stimuli like color and symbols. By looking at other research that was done before he dove into his studies on interference‚ he was able to gain insight on the subject. One of them
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5.05 Mixtures and solutions Lab report Ink Chromatography Chromatography is also used to compare and describe chemical substances. The chromatographic sequence of sorbed substances is related to their atomic and molecular structures. A change in a chemical substance produced by a chemical or biological reaction often alters the solubility and migration rate. With this knowledge‚ alterations or changes can be detected in the substance. Chromatography serves mainly as a tool for the examination and
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