Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci I visited the Louvre in Paris‚ France and the one thing that I knew for sure that I wanted to see was the Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece. I took the metro that led me into a mall where I walked down a very long hall of shops on each side. Finally‚ we reached the large inverted pyramid on the middle of a large room. If facing the pyramid with the long hall of the mall to your back‚ you can look forward and to the left and you will see an entrance to Comedie-Francaise
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In her essay‚ “Why Women Smile”‚ Amy Cunningham discuss the smiles whether spontaneously or not appear differently on man and women’s face. And she also gives some research about different types of smiles‚ specially the Duchenne Smile—the smile of true merriment. She writes “Women doctors smile more than their male counterparts‚ studies show‚ and are better liked by their patients”‚ and “females often mature earlier than males and are less irritable‚ girls smile more than boys from the very beginning
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States faced new obstacles to safeguard the nation from communist threats. New polices‚ ideals‚ and regressions of progress defined the years after the war‚ as observed in the film Mona Lisa Smile. The film‚ taking place in a women’s college during 1953‚ adequately portrays the issues stemming from World War II (Mona Lisa). Connections can be inferred between the film and the speeches read on the issues of birth control‚ potential life opportunities‚ and gender normalizations. The first connection
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For this assignment I decided to compare two paintings of the same theme from XVI Century Renaissance of Italy both titled The Last Supper‚ one by Leonardo da Vinci and the other by Tintoretto. The paintings were created one hundred years apart and as such had noticeable differences in technique and style. Of these differences‚ the use of light and its effects on the works’ meaning is the theme of this paper. Finished in 1498‚ Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper shows a full frontal view of the
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The film which is about a young and an idealist teacher who want to change something.The film which involves the reflections of feminism and functionalism.İn this essay i analyze these reflections.Firstly‚according to the functionalism‚everyone in society has a role and everyone play their role contribute to the smooth functioning of society.Children learn and internalize the norms and expectations which are accepted in a society.İn this wise‚they adopt sex roles.So‚gender roles are competible with
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About Katsushika Hokusai Stated in the blog entitled Katsushika Hokusai: The Complete Works‚ Hokusai became an apprentice to a wood carver when he was in his early teens. A couple years after‚ he was then accepted into the studio of Katsukawa Shunshō. Shunshō was well known for wood block paintings and prints that Hokusai would then become proficient in. The first art published‚ a succession of images of Kabuki actors. After his wife had passed and he was expelled from the Katsukawa school‚ Hokusai
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Pop culture is a forever moving forward machine. There were and are people who influenced pop culture and continue to do so even though some are no longer with us. For example taking in account David Bowie. If you ask any random person on the street about David Bowie you’d find that this person will know who you are talking about. It is safe to say that David Bowie was a master for experimenting. Throughout the years we have seen his many faces. He has globally reached to us from one angle or another
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Masaccio is a celebrated leading painter of the Italian Renaissance. The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden is one of his frescos. Painted around 1424-27‚ the fresco rest on the walls of the Florentine Brancacci Chapel. 1 (Fig 1.) It documents how Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden of Eden. Similar to Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden; Masolino’s magnificent Renaissance fresco‚ Temptation of Adam and Eve‚ (Fig 2.) is also found in the Brancacci Chapel of the Santa Maria del Carmine
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Leonardo da Pisa Leonardo da Pisa‚ whose original name was Leonardo Fibonacci‚ was an Italian mathematician during the medieval era. He was born in 1170 and died around 1240‚ Leonardo da Pisa also wrote Liber abaci in 1202 (also known as the “Book of Abacus”) which was the first Indian and Arabian mathematics book in Europe ("Leonardo Pisano‚" par. 1-2). There is not much that is known about Leonardo da Pisa’s life except that he was the son of a merchant. Leonardo traveled to several countries
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarrorti Simoni was a distinguished artist in the Italian Renaissance. Commonly referred to as Michelangelo‚ he specialized in painting‚ sculpture‚ poetry‚ and architecture. Starting at a young age‚ Michelangelo commonly attended the workshop of XYZ‚ although he commonly kept to himself and was not heavily influenced by him‚ but rather fifteenth century Florentine culture. He moved to Florence where he worked for and lived with the Medici family. For some time‚ Michelangelo
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