Born in Padua‚ a city not far from Venice‚ Mantegna introduced many Florentine characteristics into north Italian painting. He particularly admired the realism of Donatello’s sculptures‚ and like Donatello‚ he studied ancient Roman art. He used perspective to create the effect of a stage on which his figures perform. The
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from: http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-renaissance- man.htm#slideshow Gascoigne‚ Bamber. (2001). HistoryWorld. Retrieved from http://www.historyworld.net Kleiner‚ F New Renaissance Art(2001). Retrieved from http://newrenart.com/michelangelo-and-the-pieta/ Summers‚ D Summers‚ D. (2013).Michelangelo. In Academic World Book. Retrieved from Summers‚ D. (2013).Michelangelo. In Academic World Book. Retrieved from http://www.worldbookonline.com/academic/article?id=ar359360&st= Tricia Ellis-Christensen
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"The Bystander" - Rosemary Dobson "The Bystander" describes the significance of the insignificant characters in paintings. The speaker in the poem is that figure painted behind/beside the subjects of artworks‚ where he/it speaks out of its existence to us: in the form of a wing‚ a squire‚ a distant figure or part of a crowd. This insignificant character reflects upon several scenes he/it has stood in‚ such as the two slaughter of Innocents (i.e. the murder of infants from both Old and New Testament
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seen to be three distinct ideas as to what constituted a family‚ the nuclear or immediate family‚ the extended family including aunts‚ cousins‚ grandparent and the bloodline or linage which included all ancestors who shared the family name. The Florentine concept of the family or famigilia was‚ as theorized by Goldthwaite‚ the nuclear unit‚ not the extended family of cousins‚ aunts‚ uncles and grandparents the Kents implied. The family was important as it was a close social‚ emotional‚ economic and
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different views and values portrayed‚ the timelines of both books and the ideas depicted. Aeneid book 5 and Iliad book23 make use of different views and values. Where Homer incorporates the honour code in his heroes‚ the heroes of Virgil show more pietas. The heroes of Homer aim to achieve honour‚ that is the esteem received from one’s peers. Honour is so essential to a hero that life itself would be meaningless. A hero’s honour is determined firstly by his courage‚ physical abilities and to a lesser
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all this time. Similar tasks have been done by Florentine Codex discussing Aztec Culture (1547-1579)‚ Popol Vuh expounding Maya/Guatamala culture (1554-1558)‚ Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz with Mexican ontology (1648-1695) and Matsuo Basho discussing Japanese culture (1644-1694). This paper aims to understand the manner in which the above noted cultural analysts have present each cultural in a unique way. Florentine Codex (Aztec Cultural) Florentine Codex is a detail description of Aztec Culture documented
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still connects to a large portion of Americans today. It was wrote by people who actually lived here‚ it was the telling of a people trying to protect their homes and way of life‚ and it covers the history of our neighboring ancestry. First‚ the Florentine Codex was wrote by people native to this continent. Its people could very well be the ancestor of plenty Americans today. It was not wrote by people who had so sail here from another land. It is from our own people. Because of the fact that
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte: Chaucer’s Pity In his essay “Chaucer and Pite‚” Douglas Gray records the relevant meanings of pity taken from the NED current to Chaucer’s time as: (1) The quality of being pitiful; the disposition to mercy or compassion‚ clemency‚ mercy‚ mildness or tenderness . . . (2) A feeling or emotion of tenderness aroused by the suffering‚ distress‚ or misfortune of another‚ and prompting a desire for its relief; compassion‚ sympathy . . . (3) a ground
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Aeneas Tragic Deaths Aeneas was never happy in his life‚ it seemed he always had a deep emptiness inside of him. In any case it was inevitable that he always contained a strong love to his family name and devotion to gods (Pietas). A focused man can seem unstoppable as presented in all ancient Greece stories especially in Virgil’s books. Being so‚ it is easy to understand that Aeneas must do whatever it takes to reach his goal. “I be Aeneas‚ duty-bound‚ known‚ above high air
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David LaChapelle was born in in Fairfield‚ Connecticut in 1963. He is an admired commercial‚ fashion‚ and fine art photographer known for his hyper- realistic photographs with clever social messages about popular culture‚ religion‚ and history. LaChapelle’s photography career started in the eighties when he began showing his artwork in galleries around New York. Andy Warhol presented David LaChapelle his first commercial photography show. LaChapelle has accumulated a huge body of commercial and fine
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