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    ART101 - Art History Module 1 Introduction to Art; Renaissance Art In what ways does Fran?ois Clouet’s Lady in Her Bath painting reflect the ideology and culture of the Renaissance Era? The woman bathing in front of the painting is seating in cold water. The painting shows how she is being pampered by her family. She has fruit in front of her so she can eat while bathing. The woman bathing has a shower cap on her with a pear dropping from it. The pear on her shower cap matches her earring

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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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    things from the Spanish Civil War to the French uprisings in 1968. Cartier-Bresson was known for being a French photographer whose humane‚ spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism as an art form. Cartier-Bresson’s photographs are portraits of people and what was going on in the world. These are some quotes of his about photography: “In photography‚ the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little‚ human detail can become a Leitmotiv.” “Photography is an immediate reaction‚

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    beautiful portrait of Dorian. He feels that it is his best work to date. While‚ in the Hallward’s studio Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton. Henry "corrupts" Dorian’s innocent and introduces him to a new world of Hedonism. Dorian is eventually influenced by Henry’s way of thinking and becomes obsessed with himself and his image. He wishes that he always look like his youthful appearance in the portrait. The wish comes true. Dorian remains the same – youthful and charming‚ but the portrait begins to

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    This portrait is a way to assert his authority. Actually‚ it’s a copy of an older painting. The painter became the king’s painter (political position / risky business). It’s a nearly lifeside painting and a full life portrait. This a low angle view. The viewer is place in a submissive position. The vertical format is very traditional. The view allowed to see what’s around the king. Casper David Friedrich: Wanderer above a Sea of Fog (1818) – oil on canvas‚

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    The paintings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Frank Duveneck show the juxtaposition between the high society‚ in the portrait of Mademoiselle Jeanne Gonin‚ and the gritty working class population‚ in the painting The Cobbler’s Apprentice. These oil-on-canvas portraits reflect their differences through stylistic qualities and subject matter‚ through the use of brush stoke and light they convey different messages to the viewer. Ingres’ painting of a somber looking wealthy woman is an oil-on-canvas

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    it home or if something has happened to him. Many assumptions can be made because when the man from the portrait bewares the character that leaving home can be dangerous the reader can end up thinking that something has occurred. Assumptions are made when the character arrives in the cemetery and sees the man of his portrait carving something into a gravestone. Since the man from his portrait was the man standing before him‚ we can assume that the gravestone can be about the protagonist. The gravestone

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    National Gallery myself to see her‚ it was something I wanted to know more about‚ who was she and why was she painted the way she was? I was profusely curious to find the answers to all these questions I had. “Who Was Ginevra de’ Benci? Leonardo’s Portrait and Its Sitter Recontextualized” was a particularly helpful resource in finding information about Ginevra‚ and who she actually is. Ginevra de’ Benci is the only painting in America made by Leonardo da Vinci . She lives in the National Gallery as

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    of a perfect artist to support his argument that the purpose of art is to be beautiful. From the beginning of the book we can see that Basil has a strong tie to his artwork. In the first chapter when he goes to visit Lord Henry and shows him the portrait of Dorian he tells Lord Henry that he will not exhibit his work because there is too much of the artist in the painting. This scenario leads Dorian to explain to Lord Henry what the an artist’s role truly is “An artist should create beautiful things

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    work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life." A new exhibition in Paris‚ since September 2011‚ shows how Giacometti strongly drew his inspiration for his work from Ethruscan art. In my opinion the artwork ‘Portrait of Jean Genet’ looks to be a man in distress‚ frozen‚ and isolated away‚ in a confined space. I believe the man is distressed and alone due to his posture being slightly tilted backwards giving it a feel of the man’s awkwardness. The use of shadow

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