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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comedies (Roman 203). Dionysus is famous for his accidental discovery of wine. One day‚ Dionysus was dancing with the nymphs. He came upon a bathing tub next to a long line of grapevines. He filled the tub to the brim with the large‚ red grapes‚ and stepped in. He stomped on the grapes‚ and danced in the tub‚ until the entire tub was full of grape juice. Dionysus heard the nymphs calling him from afar‚ and he left the tub of juice for two days. He came back to the tub‚ and saw the colour of the juice
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What is “love?” How do we define it? Can it genuinely exist in modern society as in Shakespeare’s stories? A literal dictionary definition of the word shows it to mean a profoundly tender‚ passionate affection for another person. Doesn’t that sound just romantic? Nowadays it seems that a majority of people often overlook the true meaning of love: They presume that it can be obtained based on relationships‚ money‚ sex‚ marriage‚ and so on. Due to all this material possession and other superficial
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The West Side story production put on by the Orlando Shakes theatre was written by play right Stephen Sondheim‚ and directed by Jim Helsinger. This play had spectacular acting‚ music and choreography‚ costume design‚ scenery‚ lighting‚ use of environmental sounds‚ and centralized messages. While sitting down to watch this play in the company of my ex boyfriend we had a few laughs over what was said. Tony being a Polish boy like me‚ and Maria being a Puerto Rican like my ex we had a bit of a connection
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Virgil is considered the most renowned Latin poet‚ according to the work “Divine Intervention‚ Supremacy of Fate in The Aeneid.” He is the writer of the epic poem The Aeneid. Virgil’s epic is a continuation of Homer’s The Iliad. The Aeneid is very much like The Iliad. In The Iliad‚ the men and gods are a driving power of the Trojan War‚ as are the men and gods a driving power of Aeneas’s journey in The Aeneid‚ but there is a stronger power driving Aeneas on his journey. It is the same power to which
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For 1 Point Enlarge Image Your Answer: B) satire Correct: 1 point 9) The critic Diderot liked Grueze ’s Village Bride because of the painting ’s moral theme. For 1 Point Enlarge Image Your Answer: True Correct: 1 point 10) Which artist created Nymph and Satyr? For 1 Point Enlarge Image Your Answer: B) Clodion Correct: 1 point 11) A novel‚ play‚ or painting that ridicules people ’s hypocrisy or foolishness by using humor or parody is known as a(n) ________. For 1 Point Your Answer: B) satire Correct:
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To consider someone a hero‚ he must boast certain characteristics that are harder to detect in an average person‚ such as being humble‚ merciful‚ loyal‚ and a great leader. King Odysseus of Ithaca survived the Trojan War. While most of his other men returned to their native lands immediately following the war‚ it took Odysseus ten years to journey home because of his lust for other women and desire to prove he was superior to everyone. Odysseus and his group of shipmates faced countless obstacles
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Atlas In Greek Mythology‚ the Titans were a race of giants. Atlas was the strongest of all the titans. His father was titan Iapetus and his mother was the Sea Nymph Clymene. His brothers were Prometheus and Cronus. Atlas was the father of the Hesperides (Daughters of the Evening‚) the Hyades‚ and the Pleiades. He was also the king of the legendary Atlantis. In etymology Atlas means “bearer” or “endurer.” An image of Atlas is a person with the world on his back
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Americans today are delaying marriage or not getting married at all according to statistics. The average age that adults are marrying now is twenty-six for women and twenty-eight for men. Of those people who get married the likeliness that their marriage will end up in a divorce is around forty to fifty percent. For those who decide to remarry the divorce rate is at sixty percent. Not only does marriage seem like a struggle for some Americans‚ but marriage was also a struggle for the Greek god Zeus
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ACHILLES Achilles is considered the greatest warrior of the Trojan War. He was the son of the sea nymph Thetis and the mortal Peleus‚ king of the Myrmidons of Thessaly. According to the legend when he was a child his mother Thetis held him by the heel and dipped him into the River Styx. This was supposed to make him immortal. Because she held him by the heel‚ this part of his body was not put into the water. He was made invulnerable except for his heel. This is where we get the phrase “Achilles’
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