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    Italo-Byzantine style‚ a.i. he still relied on Byzantine traits. b. Painter and mosaicist‚ b.i. Cimabue used the formal traits of Byzantine art‚ b.i.1. Brought emotional aspects‚ b.i.2. An increased concern with naturalism‚ b.i.3. New awareness of three-dimensional space to his stylized forms. c. Cimabue is considered by many to have provided the foundation for the art of Giotto and Duccio in the 14th century. d. His great contemporary‚ Dante‚ recognized the importance of Cimabue d.i. He placed

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    peasant family could afford this many animals the farmers would come together creating a plow team which required communal planning and collaboration. With Europe plummeting in size‚ communities proved to be a handful for newly flourishing authority figures. In many places the citizens of the new enlarged towns attempted to rid themselves of their lords to establish self-rule or‚ at least‚ substantial autonomy for their city (Levack et al.‚ 2011‚ p. 302). In the northern central Italy‚ groups known as

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    Discuss the evolution of the idea of beauty through the history of art. The idea of beauty‚ the perfect human body‚ is a result of culture: religious functions‚ advertisements‚ economy‚ and other factors. The definition of beauty is not an inherent concept‚ since every age‚ place and social class formed its own ideal of it. This evolution of beauty is shown explicitly through the history of art. Art‚ in different periods‚ was influenced mainly by history and religion. I will discuss this transition

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    Female representations in “Gulliver’s Travels” In Jonathan Swift’s satire‚ “Gulliver’s Travels”‚ the representation of women can be seen‚ at a superficial level‚ as offensive and extremely misogynistic and in broad lines corresponding to the image of the woman in Swift’s contemporary patriarchal society. The woman was almost objectified‚ thus reduced to her physical appearance and its status as obedient wife‚ whose sole purpose was to attend to her husband’s need. This perception of women was what

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    -Kapı‚ Lion Gate According to Module one lecture‚ the art of the Minoans first appeared in the beginning of the second millennium BCE‚ when a group of people in the Aegean discovered how to use natural elements to create styles of artifacts using timber‚ stone‚ metallic ores and clay. (Page 16) “There were

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    is Street Art? Street art is arguably classed as Urban Art and also known as Contemporary Art. This form of Art represents the voice of the lower class in debate with the political class‚ they express themselves with sprays on plaster and endure ’A life spent scribbling in books scrambling over walls and fences‚ scrawling on any available surface’. It is today accepted by designers and artists who also are influenced by these contemporary visualised forms‚ this form of contemporary art has changed

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    Different Period and Their Works of Art Stone Age The stone age can be divided into two phases: Paleolithic (old stone age) and Neolithic (new stone age). During the Paleolithic‚ humans lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers. During the Neolithic‚ humans adopted and settled agricultural life. Neolithic Period or New Stone Age The term neolithic is used‚ especially in archaeology and anthropology‚ to designate a stage of cultural evolution or technological development characterized by the use

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    Kim de Beaumont 11/30/12 I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and after seeing all the paintings‚ sculptures‚ and art works‚ I chose Kouros‚ for my final paper‚ because it shows Greek’s first nude youth male during Archaic period on ca. 600 BCE. My piece of art is Marble statue of Kouros (male youth) which is characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side. This noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble statues from

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    Non-Western Paper The two artworks I have chose are the Goddess Uma and Armored Guardian King Trampling Demon. The reason why I chose these sculptures are because I thought the Goddess Uma was interesting in beauty because she has four arms‚ has very long and skinny legs‚ and just the way the top of the body was formed. I chose the Armored Guardian King Tramping Demon because the colors intrigued me and he looked strong and was wondering at first what was he was standing on‚ his costume was well

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    Introduction to Art: Final Exam Study Guide 1. The decorative top of a column. Capitals 2. The middle section of the horizontal entablature in ancient Greek order. Frieze 3. The square areas between the triglyphs in the frieze area of the entablature. Metope 4. Ionic columns have capitals with a scroll like motif called volutes. 5. 6. Decorative vertical or raised lines on a column are called? flutes 7. The elements of an order are- column with capitals‚and the entablature

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