the meaning deep inside. The Virgin holds the Christ child in her left arm and looks beyond him with sad tenderness‚ while Jesus touching His mother’s veil‚ and the Virgin’s distant expression. Why Mary was so sad? Perhaps‚ the sadness in knowing that her only beget son will someday die for the sins of mankind. The subject about biblical was painted by Duccio in a very unique manner for his time. The artist rejected the flat expression of earthly and heavenly beings that was the style of Byzantine
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experts who are curious on why the Mona Lisa was painted. Some of the theories that will be revealed are my personal theory and interpretation of the Mona Lisa‚ the theory that Mona Lisa is Lisa Gheradini‚ the theory that believes Mona Lisa is a self-portrait‚ the theory that da Vinci is homosexual‚ the theory that explains the land scape‚ the theory that explains the smile of the figure‚ and the theory that are made using forensics. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa Kawakami 2 and left vague evidence
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able to name the painting as well as the painter. While some say that DaVinci’s painting is the most famous of all created‚ many of Andy Warhol’s paintings are also easily recognizable. Almost everyone has seen the Campbell’s Soup Can series Warhol painted or his famous Triple Elvis print. This paper will be focusing on his Marilyn Monroe series‚ which I will be comparing and contrasting to the Mona Lisa. There are many obvious differences between the two paintings‚ such as the time period‚ color scheme
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The Great Divide University of California-Berkley geographer and author Michael Johns argues in his novel‚ The City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz‚ that the central Zocalo of Mexico City does more than geographically segregate the East from the West‚ but Mexico’s national mentality as well. During the years of Diaz’s democratic façade‚ the upper classes thrived upon plantation exports‚ feudalist economics and the iron fist of Diaz’s rurales while struggling to maintain European social likeness
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is best known to Americans as a head scarf that covers the head of a Muslim woman. What is not known to the majority of the American population is‚ the hijab refers to a variety of traditional garments not just the head scarf. Hijab may include a veil to cover the face or loose fitting clothing that cover all parts of the body except the hands and feet. (book) In American culture the hijab is viewed as a tool to oppress women. Many Americans do not understand that the hijab is a customary part of
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Edgar Allan Poe does a wonderful job of changing the tone of this dark poem. He is able to do this by using words such as “fountain”‚ “Mountain”‚ and “autumn tint of gold”. These are all pictures of beauty things changes the sad picture that Poe painted previously. The line that shows this evident change best is “In its autumn tint of gold—“ (Poe). This line changes what was once a so much sorrow and turns it into view. One could believe that this Poe’s true intent. An idea that one can have is
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960) 1 I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief. 2 I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville‚ Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town
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Kendall Russell AP English-8th Mrs. Guthrie Nov-30-2012 Junior Theme: “Inhuman mockery and Sacrilegious irony!” This is the description The Fourth of July received from one of the many heads of the abolitionist movement. The day commemorated by many Americans as a day to celebrate freedom and independence was described by Frederick Douglass as ”bombast fraud.” through the use of rhetorical questions‚ emotional appeals and visual imagery Douglass hammered to expose to his audience the hypocrisy
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Soriano The Senakulo (from the Spanish cenaculo) is a Lenten play that depicts events from the Old and New Testaments related to the life‚ sufferings‚ and death of Christ. The senakulo is traditionally performed on a proscenium-type stage with painted cloth or paper backdrops that are called telon. It takes at least eight nights - from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday - to present the play. Christ is presented traditionally as meek and masochistic‚ submitting lamblike to his fate in obedience to authority
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confinement and identity loss. One specific symbol would be the veil. This was revealed in chapter one when the new regime in Iran made wearing the veil mandatory‚ “then came 1980: the year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school” (3). In general‚ a veil is used for covering‚ such as in weddings veils for used to cover the bride before she meets her husband. In this case it used to cover the women’s faces. It is interesting how the veil is black and black is usually associated with “the hidden
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