Thursday AP Comp. College -- the important four-year period in which a student grows in knowledge of their preferred career and steeps in new and different experiences. It is important for me to leave college with a close community‚ a better knowledge of my future job‚ and the experience of studying abroad. These three things would help me in post--school life‚ and also give me vivid memories. It is essential for me to leave college with a close community. Having grown up in a
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natural world portrayed with rage with an explosion on a street in Paris (Louvre Museum. n.d.). Delacroix depended solely on members of the royal family and donations from various institutions to help fund his art projects. Sketches were done prior to
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The theft of the “Mona Lisa” radically changed people’s awareness and views of the painting. People were very interested in this event because how it happened is unknown. The “Mona Lisa” was painted by Leonardo da Vinci and was displayed at the Louvre museum in Paris‚ France. The theft of the “Mona Lisa” likely took place in the morning‚ but the painting was gone for an entire day before anyone realized it had been stolen. When the museum opened and the wall where da Vinci’s masterpiece had hung
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all over France‚ from Paris to Mont Saint Michel‚ along the South of France‚ and even to Switzerland! I visited places I usually saw on the television screen. I even climbed 627 steps on the world famous Eiffel Tower. I truly enjoyed visiting the Louvre Museum. It is so big that people say it takes about one whole month to go through the entire museum. That visit was very educational and interesting‚ especially when I finally got to see the most famous painting in history‚ The Mona Lisa. This once
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Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 Pictori philosopho (Blunt‚ 3)‚ "Painter-philosopher" was a name given to Nicolas Poussin by Serous d’ Agincourt in 1782. Agincourt later found out that the name Pictori philosopho had already been given to the German artist Anton Raphael Mengas. Nicolas Poussin was born in 1594 in the town of Les Andelys on the Seine. He came from a nobel family that was ruined by religious wars according to Giovanni Pietro Bellori. No actual proof of this has been established his
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Critical Analysis: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) By: Kelsie Ford Art Appreciation ART 1113V1 September 24‚ 2014 Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15‚ 1452 in Vinci‚ Italy. Born out of wedlock‚ the love child of a respected notary and a young peasant woman‚ he was raised by his father‚ Ser Piero‚ and his stepmothers. At the age of 14‚ da Vinci began apprenticing with the artist Verrocchio. For six years‚ he learned a wide breadth of technical skills‚ including metalworking‚ leather arts‚
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We went and toured the Notre Dame but unfortunately could not clime to the top due to the cold rainy weather conditions outside. When we arrived at the Louvre our tour guide informed us it was originally the Palais du Louvre which housed the royal estate until Louis XIV felt it was not good enough and built the Palace of Versailles. The Louvre museum was enormous with many different eras and types of art to view. We had a unanimous vote‚ however‚ that seeing the “Mona Lisa” was by the far the best
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A Family Vacation The ways how to spend your vacation may vary. Many young people prefer to spend their vacation with friends. Young people feel uncomfortable seeing their parents every day. The society think parents need to rest without children and children do the same thing without their parents. However‚ some families like spending their vacation together. Some families lose this tradition when their children grow up‚ but some families retain it. My family did not lose this tradition and
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size‚ it stands 203 cm high and is currently at the Louvre Museum in Paris. This statue was created in the Hellenistic period‚ but the form of the statue. Some have said that the sculpture has Classical style characteristics. One of the characteristics of Hellenistic is the carving of the cloth draped around the waist of the sculpture. The Winged Victory of Samothrace Artist Unknown 3rd Century B.C. This sculpture is at the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is a sculpture of a woman on the
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shadow allowing artists of this period to explore their subjects from different unique points of view without completely abandoning the Classical Greek concepts. Formal Analysis: As the sculptures of Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace (c. 190 BCE‚ Louvre‚ Paris) and Aphrodite‚ Pan‚ and Eros (c. 100 BCE‚ National Archaeological Museum‚ Athens) are two of the most prominent works of art from the Hellenistic period of the ancient Greek times‚ each contained a new style that were introduced during
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