REVIEWER IN HUMANITIES (MIDTERM) Leonardo da Vinci was born more than 500 years ago (1452) in a town called Vinci in Italy. He was a scientist‚ an inventor‚ an architect‚ a musician‚ a sculptor‚ a mathematician and also a fantastic artist. He was curious about everything! Mona Lisa Painted in 1962 it was valued 100 million dollars! Imagine what it is worth now! It now hangs in the Louvre in Paris. DaVinci’s paintings were done in the Realist style. Vincent van Gogh was born more than
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* Introduction: The power of the art critic and historian is often far more than many recognize. It is through his eyes that one sees the art‚ particularly the art of periods past. It is his perspective from which one reads the work. Meyer Schapiro’s article Cézanne’s Apples illustrates the power that the writer has to manipulate the viewer’s interpretation. Various forms of art critique have developed as an approach to art interpretation. Schapiro’s psychoanalytic approach‚ that is‚
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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in the Hole Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire on April 23‚ 1564. He was the first son and third child of John Shakespeare‚ a leather tanner and a maker of gloves‚ and Mary Arden Shakespeare. William’s parents were married around 1558 and had a total of eight children‚ three of which died in childhood. William’s family had been living in the area of Warwickshire for many years and was respected. William’s father was at one
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with the description of the young lovers: the incomparably lovely virgin‚ Hero‚ dedicated to the service of the love goddess – she is "Venus’ nun"(line 45) -- and the handsome Leander. Both young people are described as having more than human beauty. Hero is so beautiful that the love-god Cupid mistakes her for that most beautiful of the goddesses‚ his mother Venus. Leander’s description is even more extreme‚ and perhaps a bit bizarre. He is described as so attractive that even men find him beautiful
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the Forge of Vulcan. Requested without commission by Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens‚ Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan depicts the moment when the god Apollo tells Vulcan that Venus‚ his wife‚ is having an affair with another god‚ Mars. Apollo has presumably entered Vulcan’s blacksmith workshop to bear the bad news amongst the other blacksmiths in the forge. The moment when Apollo warns Vulcan of Venus’ adultery is the focus of the painting‚ centered by Apollo’s gaze and Vulcan’s reaction
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Fêtes Vénitiennes predict muted hues and cool neutrals. It mainly use red‚ khaki‚ dark green‚ light blue‚ white‚ brown. The shadows might remind the viewer of Peter Paul Rubens or Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro. Beautiful and vivid characters’ symmetry to form internal connection with each other. As he was deeply influenced by Rubens‚ the handling method is full of fantasy‚ poetic. He is good at the mysterious and sad atmosphere to set off the subtle mood of the characters. Analysis Jean-Francois de Troy
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time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth’s own account)‚[3] it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes‚ and a revised versionwas published in 1815.[4] It is written in six-line stanzas with an ababcc rhyme scheme‚ like the Venus and Adonis stanza of Shakespeare‚ except intetrameters rather than pentameters. It is generally considered Wordsworth’s most famous work.[5] In the "Nation’s Favourite Poems"‚ a poll carried out by the BBC’s Bookworm‚ "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" came
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Because the Vatican is within this city‚ it is most closely associated with fostering the artistic creativity of Leonardo‚ Michelangelo‚ and Raphael. A) Vienna B) London C) Paris D) Rome Points Earned: 4.0/4.0 Correct Answer(s): D 2. This artist’s School of Athens reveals his respect for pagan philosophers. A) Raphael B) Leonardo da Vinci C) Titian D) Giorgione Points Earned: 4.0/4.0 Correct Answer(s): A 3. This artist created the magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine
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going on in the picture and it is very beautiful. However‚ the artist does not go in-depth with designing specific features of the picture. This gives it a very calm and simplistic style‚ which I tend to like very much. I find art like “The Birth of Venus” (Page 6) to be very off-putting. I don’t enjoy the extreme detail of facial/body features‚ as I see them as creepy and off-putting. However‚ I would like to say that I mean no disrespect to the artists or artwork of individuals who paint in this style
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16th century England was not highly admired by people of high rank. Early in his career‚ Shakespeare was able to attract the attention of Henry Wriothesley‚ the Earl of Southampton‚ to whom he dedicated his first- and second-published poems: "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". To establish his career‚ Shakespeare had to start all from a scratch. He started his work as an apprentice and then gradually gained name and fame. With his earnings‚ Shakespeare built his own theatre‚ south of London
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