Mannerism (1527-1600) * Confusing * Counterpart to High Renaissance Southern Italy * “…stylish style…” – John Sherman * Started in central Rome * Catholic church started to take problem with it Jacopo da Pontormo – Deposition * 1527 * Original Context: Commissioned for Capponi private chapel in Florence (Santa Felcita) * Materials: Oil on panel (unusual for Southern Italian art) * Other unusual things: * Jesus isn’t the center of the painting (VOID –
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes‚ Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History is a non-fiction book written by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter which got translated in nineteen languages and later got filmed by Georg Clooney‚ who also played one of the main characters. Robert M. Edsel already (co-) published several other works about the preservation‚ protection and restitution of the world’s greatest artistic and cultural treasures. The book deals with the work of the Monuments‚ Fine
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Part 1: Timeline Reflection Pinhole Camera (400Bc-1040AD) The first capturing of imagery involved the design of a dark‚ lightless room with one side covered with large delicate sheet. The earliest mention of this device is by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti. A pin is used to pierce the sheet and create a small pinhole. On the outside where the hole was made place a lit candle. What happens now is that the light would travel from the candle through the pinhole and reflect an image of the candle on the
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Witchcraft through pagan beliefs has been around for centuries‚ pre-dating Christianity and many mainstream religions. The most common concept‚ however‚ comes around when the Western world describes it as acts against God and therefore evil‚ associating it with the Devil and Devil worshipping. Witchcraft is feared and resorted to when events are unexplainable. In the Late Middle Ages‚ three main texts arose that laid a foundation for the extermination of witches‚ known as the Witchcraft Documents
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The gallery is home to a noteworthy accumulation of depictions‚ crossing six centuries. You can respect lives up to expectations from a portion of the world’s most well known painters‚ including Rubens‚ Vermeer‚ Leonardo da Vinci‚ Michelangelo‚ Renoir and Claude Monet. St Martin-in-the fields‚ Trafalgar Square At the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square is the St. Martin-in-the-Fields ward church. It is a standout amongst the most celebrated holy places
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which was instrumental in making montage into a modern art-form. They first coined the term "photomontage" at the end of the war‚ around 1918 or 1919. The other major exponents were John Heartfield‚ Hannah Höch‚ Kurt Schwitters‚ Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader. Individual photos combined together to create a new subject or visual image proved to be a powerful tool for the Dadists protesting World War I and the interests that they believed inspired the war. Photomontage survived Dada and was a technique
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Koi Fish‚ Meditation‚ and Ghosts Koi fish has always fascinated me – there is something calming about their simple existence. I am reminded of the meditative state of mind aimed for in Zen‚ where thoughts‚ feelings‚ and sensations are allowed to come and go as they please while the source of our attention is firmly anchored within itself – in the breath‚ in the moment – immersed in the physiological sensory experience yet removed from it. Somehow the elegantly lazy movements of the koi fish bring
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Hypatia‚ written several centuries later‚ were so important. Readers of Apollonius’ Conics are better able to understand this text with the aid of these other texts that make the principles easier to understand. It is fortunate that scientists like Johannes Kepler‚ who
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Mystery of ‘K’ in CMYK The K in CMYK stands for “Key”‚ but the answer is much more interesting than that. The “key plate” is said to add the “detail” to a printed image. This is true in that the black plate in a four color process print pushes the contrast and creates “detail”. Many people suggest that the theory of using K instead of B because it may be easily confused with “Blue” is a myth. While it is highly speculative what the reasoning is‚ there are context clues as to why it may actually
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made by the Chinese in the 13th century‚ but due to the amount of characters in the Chinese language it wasn’t very efficient there. The printing press was then discovered by Europeans through trade routes between china. Then in the 14th century Johannes Gutenberg invented the European model of the press and printed the first book the bible. After this many printing presses were made across Europe and influenced a lot of the culture. The printing press affected the renaissance‚ protestant reformation
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