Week 6 Chapter Review Important People: Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter‚ and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement‚ colour‚ and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces‚ portraits‚ landscapes‚ and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe‚ Rubens was a classically
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The 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II to Nicaragua The 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II to Nicaragua The reformed-minded Catholics in Nicaragua hoped that the Pope was going to say some words of consolation to the families which daily lose loved ones to the counterrevolution‚ especially since just days before 17 outstanding members of the Sandinista Youth Organization‚ killed in an ambush‚ and had been buried after a memorial
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usually caught in the middle of power struggles for the control of a country and in March of 1983 Nicaragua was no different. During this period the country was in amidst of war‚ the Contras were opposing the Sandinista government. So when Pope John Paul II was set to visit the country‚ many Sandinista Catholic supporters hope he would help to bring about social justice for the poor and support the government. Believing this would bring an end to the civil war that was consuming the country. They were
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Page 1 The Getty museum. J Paul Getty was born in Minneapolis‚ Minnesota on December 15‚ 1892 and died in England 1976 (age 84). In 1945 J Paul Getty purchased a home in Malibu. During his years of living there he collected historical paintings‚ statues‚ and furniture. Nine years later he then decided to open his home to the public to share the art collections‚ Greek and Roman antiques‚ 18th century furniture‚ and European paintings. After some visits he then decided in 1968 to began work
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Ms 2 Kingsley Bailey Class: 604 March 25‚ 2015. In the novel Bud‚ Not Buddy‚ by Christopher Paul Curtis. The book talks about a young boy named Bud Caldwell‚ who has been an orphan since he was six; he also had runs away after being abused in a foster home. He sets out to find his father‚ a man named Herman E. Calloway‚ a bandleader in Michigan during the Depression. He has many adventures along the way and learns many lessons he can take with him on his
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With the thought of Hell comes the spine-chilling red devil with instruments of torture‚ shrill screams of pain‚ and an encompassing‚ sweltering heat. Jean Paul Sartre proves in his play‚ No Exit‚ that Hell is not this petrifying scenario that is so popularized‚ but that Hell is simply other people. He uses metaphors to prove that the characters lose their sense of selves in hell‚ and have no other way to look at themselves except through the other people present. Cradeau is introduced to the room
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Ross Boyle and Erica Clare St. Vincent de Paul Interviewer: Hello everyone! We welcome all of you watching todays program. I am your host Grace‚ and I have a very special guest with me today‚ St. Vincent de Paul. St. Vincent: Pax! Interviewer: Let me just give a brief introduction about St. Vincent de Paul to our audience before we begin the interview. St. Vincent was born in 1581 in Puoy‚ the Kingdom of France‚ to a family of farm working peasants. He lived during the era when France was
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In this exhortatation by Pope John Paul II‚ I found important reminders addressed to every family and to those who are planning to make a family. The pope reminds them to be responsible in their obligation as spouses‚ to participate the Church’s call to educate their children‚ to help our brothers and sisters who are living in poverty‚ and to have foresight. Every married couple has a responsibility to give support to their children. They should give them their rights and treat them as human beings
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Thecla The character of Thecla first appears in the late-second century text the Acts of Paul and Thecla Briefly‚ Paul is depicted as preaching a message of chastity in Iconium‚ which causes Thecla to become enamored with his words and to abandon her responsibilities to her mother and her fiancé in order to follow Paul. She overcomes two persecutions by miraculous means‚ eventually baptizing herself in a pool of ravenous seals that are miraculously killed by a lightning bolt before they can
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by Peter Paul Rubens‚ painted in 1627-1630‚ is a case of a history painting which exhibits the strategy of oil on canvas‚ 380 x 692 cm. History artworks‚ considered the most prestigious class by the French Académie de peinture et de figure‚ portray a crossroads in history instead of a particular‚ static subject‚ for example‚ a representation. They are regularly expansive in size and detailed. This painting of “The Triumphal Entry of Henry IV into Paris” is a lively portrait by Peter Paul Rubens portraying
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