Tolerance Museum I visited Tolerance Museum last summer with my friend. It is located in Los Angeles‚ California. First‚ I just went there because my friend asked me to come there with them for fun. But when I came there‚ I really was attracted because of the unordinary museum. The first impression of the museum is that at the entrance we were divided into two groups and we must make a decision to entrance two different places inside the museum. It looked like a game and visitors were so excited
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A Portrait of Mona Lisa Courtney Wilder ENG121: English Composition I Prof. Laloni Christenson July 22‚ 2013 A Portrait of Mona Lisa Art is a traditional work that is painted in many different pattern of objects. Many people create portraits of art as an expression of how they feel. In the modern world‚ art is shown in different cities‚ subways‚ parks and etc. The greatest art was created in the early century and was called a masterpiece. This portrait was
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English 111 Writing and Inquiry Jennifer Carmen Mona Lisa Deep within the safety of The Louvre many of the world’s most recognizable and influential pieces of art are safely kept for the eyes of the art loving public. One of the most mysterious paintings in the museum is a portrait of a beautiful renaissance era woman sitting in front of a landscape of hills and flowing water. She stands at almost three feet tall by two feet wide and her smile is recognized around the globe. The mystery behind
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Modernism in art is rejecting the past and it’s a “relentless quest for radical freedom of expression” (says my copy of “The Annotated Mona Lisa”). In western culture‚ before the scientific revolution or the Age of Enlightenment‚ most subjects/ themes of paintings were the daily lives of upper/middle class people‚ the nobility‚ Christianity‚ and landscapes. Also the paintings then stressed
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Why is the Mona Lisa One of the Most Famous Paintings in the World? The Mona Lisa has been one of the most debated paintings of all time. The look on the face of the women in this painting leaves a person’s mind wondering. No one really seems to know what this mysterious woman is thinking or feeling. The questions that cannot seem to be answered are what make this painting so famous. The reason for that is because it is raveled in mystery and secrets. All of the small details make the painting stand
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limited to royal and religious figures‚ nor were they over idealized portrayals. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa exemplifies this trend. Working with the new medium of oil and his mastery of light‚ contrast‚ and sfumato‚ da Vinci created the most famous painting in the world; a work where subject and background compliment each other to form a perfect union. One of the aspects that make the Mona Lisa such a masterpiece is da Vinci’s use of oil as a medium. As the movie The Mystery of Jon van Eyck explains
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1. The Last Supper is a mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Lodovico Sforza. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as depicted in the Bible. The painting is based on John 13:21‚ in which Jesus announced that one of his 12 disciples would betray him. The painting is one of the most well known and valued in the world; unlike many other valuable paintings‚ however‚ it has never been privately owned because it cannot be moved. Тhe painting measures
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TITLE: DESCRIPTIVE: A NIGHT OF HELL SUBJECT SENTENCE: I AM GOING TO DESCRIBE TO YOU THE NIGHT THAT I WORKED BEHIND THE BAR‚ WAITRESSED‚ AND TOOK LIQUIOR COUNT. INTRODUCTION: I. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GONE TO WORK AND HAD TO DO SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK ON TOP OF YOUR OWN? II. I DEFINITELY HAVE. LET ME DESCRIBE TO YOU THE NIGHT THAT I CALL THE NIGHT OF HELL‚WHERE I NOT ONLY HAD TO DO MY JOB BUT THE JOB OF SOMEONE ELSE AS WELL. BODY: I. MY REGULAR JOB DUTIES AT WORK. A.) I WAS REQUIRED
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Speculations about Mona Lisa From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Mona Lisa‚ by Leonardo da Vinci‚Louvre Museum The 16th-century portrait Mona Lisa‚ or La Gioconda (La Joconde)‚ painted in oil on a poplarpanel by Leonardo da Vinci‚ has been the subject of a considerable deal of speculation.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Columns and trimming 2 Landscape 3 Other versions 4 Nude versions 5 Smile 6 Infrared scan 7 Eyebrows and eyelashes 8 Subject 8.1 High cholesterol 8.2 Letters and identity of model 9 References
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Sophie Wittenbeck Mona Lisa Essay 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
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