User | Allis Faye Luster | Course | World Cultures II | Test | Week 3 Quiz | Started | 7/17/13 9:53 PM | Submitted | 7/18/13 1:32 AM | Status | Completed | Attempt Score | 72 out of 80 points | Time Elapsed | 3 hours‚ 39 minutes out of 4 hours and 30 minutes. | Instructions | | Question 1 2 out of 2 points | Why did Gabrieli organize his compositions around a single note-the tonic note? Answer
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new styles of paintings and new techniques‚ and it seems that Dutch patrons give more freedom to artists‚ compared to Italian patrons. Painters like Vermeer opt for classic scenes of daily life‚ i.e. “genre paintings”‚ as we can see it when observing his Het Schilderkunst. The work of art depicts a simple studio‚ in which a man –maybe Vermeer himself?- paints a woman‚ identified as Clio‚ the Greek muse of History. On the wall behind‚ a large map of the Netherlands is hung. Everything in this painting
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Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin. his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids‚ children‚ and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition‚ soft diffusion of light‚ and granular impasto characterize his work. · Description of Dutch Baroque artist Vermeer. Vermeer was a moderately successful
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The last book I have read is “The girl with the Pearl Earring” by Tracy Chevalier. It is written in a narrative form revolving around the intricacies of Vermeer’s genius at its best. Meeting Vermeer through this book was quite a fascinating experience. His solitary ways and forlorn clumsiness in real life speaks volumes of how crowded and passion-filled his brain must have been. The rush of passions‚ the hurried compassions‚ stolen moments of guilty love and meekness of human vulnerability seems
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lived with his uncle at Benthuizen. Antonie created a business as a draper or fabric merchant after working as a Surveyor‚ a wine assayer‚ and as a minor city official. In 1676 he served as Trustee of the estate of bankrupt Jan Vermeer a famous painter. Antonie and Jan Vermeer were born the same year and were friends. In late 1667 Antonie learned how to grind lenses‚ make simple hand held microscopes and began to study them. Antonie is known for making over 500 microscopes back in his day but only
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Alienation has a big role throughout the Kaffir boy. It is defined as emotional isolation or dissociation from others. Johannes‚ along with all the young children who battle apartheid each and every day are constantly being put down and are isolated from the rest of the people in south Africa. They are even on some level totally alienated from their parents as well. Johannes had been living proof that it is in fact extremely hard to rise above the life style that has been made for these people
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Image pair 1: Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II (with smaller royal family figures)‚ 20m high‚ Exterior: Abu Simbel temple‚ Egypt‚ 1279-1213 BCE Gian Lorenzo Bernini‚ David‚ marble‚ 1.7m high‚ Galleria Borghese‚ Rome 1623-4‚ At the exterior to the Abu Simbel Temple‚ in the small village of Nubia in Southern Egypt‚ there lies the ‘Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II’. These 20 metre tall‚ statues were carved into the bare stone at around 1279- 1213 BCE‚ and were an exaggeration of Ramesses II’s
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One invention that changed education and the way of life for everyone‚ was the Gutenberg Printing Press. Johannes Gutenberg invented the “movable type” printing press. Without the Gutenberg printing press‚ it is very possible that there would have been no Renaissance or Reformation. Without the Gutenberg printing press‚ the Bible would have never been open for nobles or anyone who was not a Priest to read. The religious conflicts and questioning that happened in the Reformation would never have happened
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Davis Dr. Dean/ Prof. Hickman HON352 22 October 2016 Question Set 5 1 Johannes lived a far from “normal” life since his birth. As a young black boy living in a ghetto during apartheid‚ he faced many perilous challenges. Obstacles that prevented him from having a normal childhood include the constant threat of police raids‚ his father’s unemployment‚ and living in terrible conditions. From the early age of five years old‚ Johannes already possessed a paralyzing fear of Peri-Urban‚ the police force
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competence developed originally by Dell Hymes in response to the Chomskyan view of language competence (c) within translation studies‚ a tradition stemming from Karl Buhler‚ which sees judgements about the communicative purpose/skopos (Reiss and Vermeer) or set of functions (Nord) of the act of translating as lying at the root of translators’ decisions (see SKOPOS THEORY). The functionalist tradition Whereas it would be true to say that linguistics and translation studies have‚ until comparatively
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