“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner 1 The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests —army officers‚ and government attache´s with their wives‚ and a visiting American naturalist —in their spacious dining room. It has a bare marble floor‚ open rafters‚ and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. 2 A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse
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One of his most famous works known as the Mona Lisa‚ was created in a time referred to as the High Renaissance. At this time education was valued‚ and art was advancing with mathematical‚ and liberal techniques that incorporated reality with the complementary‚ or "ideal"(pg.633). Another leading artist of Florence was Raphael‚ who found himself doing newlywed portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi. Divinci‚ the first to complete the portrait of Mona Lisa inspired an identical yet different
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Twitter is a social media platform where people can tweet about their lives and read about the news all over the world. In the story “Twitterholics Anonymous‚” author Mona Eltahawy says that she loves and hates Twitter even though it has become an important part of her job as a reporter. Twitter has become essential for people to find new ideas‚ but to some it is becoming an unhealthy obsession. Author Eltahawy brings up how social media sites like Twitter are good for people because it gives them
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A snake is on my foot‚ help!That is probably what most people would do if they had a snake on their foot‚ but this isn’t the case for a dinner party hostess in the short story “The Dinner Party‚” written by Mona Gardner. In this story‚ a British woman puts on a dinner party. There arouses a conversation about males being better than females. The colonel states that females scream in scary situations and men don’t. This was an argument that could be backed up by evidence until a small boy was asked
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There are few works of art in the world that are as well-known or as talked about as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in Paris. Despite the immense wealth of treasures in the Louvre‚ not to mention the grandeur and history of the building itself‚ The Mona Lisa portrait is a highlight for most visitors as well as their main reason for visiting the museum. But what is it about the Leonardo’s Mona Lisa that makes it so special that everyone wants to see/steal it? Why does this painting need to be kept
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often resembles the Mona Lisa‚ Attributed to Berardino (portrait of a woman). This painting is the oldest in the Appleton Museum often referred to by the guards as The Appleton Mona. Some say the portrait was painted the same time as the Mona Lisa. Even though there is no evidence the portrait was painted by one of Devin chi’s students. The features in the portrait are very different than others in this time period. The colors are all very deep and dark. Compared to the Mona Lisa there are settle
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Mona Lisa or La Giaconda it is probably one of the most well known works of art in the world. It is one of the most copied‚ photographed‚ and reprinted works of art. I myself have her as a screensaver in my laptop. Throughout the years‚ there have been all types of theories about her in the Mona Lisa painting. It seems that most of these theorizers not only have a hypothesis about her smile or name‚ but believe that no one else’s hypothesis is right except for theirs
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studying works of ancient scholars; it influenced sculpture‚ architecture and painting. In Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa‚ the mysterious smile reflects the newly emerging Renaissance values of Humanism and The Renaissance man. (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 11th ed.‚ s.v. “Renaissance.”) (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 11th ed.‚ s.v. “Leonardo da Vinci.”) (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 11th ed.‚ s.v. “Mona Lisa”) Humanism was a new philosophical outlook that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their
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com/advertising-inspired-by-famous-painters-19619 In terms of design elements and principles alone‚ the Mona lisa is known as a compositional whole‚ whether she appears as Duncham’s L.H. O.O.Q. with mustache or as part of an adbertisement for Prince spaghetti sauce. The visual language changes subtly as an imange moves from its original context – in this case oil on canvas – to the alrenatre context: for example‚ scale and surface texture changes when the Mona Lisa appears in a magazine advertisement. Nonetheless‚ the image I this
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now‚ and only to you! I hope you enjoy. Chapter 1: Italian Renaissance and the Mona Lisa As I began to plan my travels‚ I had to decide where to go first. Then I thought‚ nothing could be better than to see the world’s most famous piece of visual art‚ the Mona Lisa. This is oil on poplar wood panel painted by Leonardo da Vinci between the years 1503–1506 and ranks among Leonardo ’s finest work of art. (Mona Lisa‚ 1987). In the early middle ages‚ all types of arts were influenced by religion
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