Essays 31 - 60
looking serene and majestic, and calling the Virgin to him (Kren and Marx). The "soaring movement" of the Virgin in this depicti...
Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...
against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...
composing sonnets was considered a necessary endeavor when courting someone (Goldenberg). For example, a man of any position would...
Roman feel to Michelangelos "Creation of Adam" that almost speaks of ancient Roman statues. In Medieval times such a piece of art ...
making Europe, and especially Italy a dominant force in the world. This was accomplished in both the realm of politics and religio...
of interests, which included mathematics, music, science, and artistic design (Craven 85). When his lawyer father showed his sons...
are sticky and crusted, open sores, and other elements that suggest a physical representation of a dream. This makes the dream som...
structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...
In nine pages a hypothetical early Renaissance art exhibit featuring this trio of prominent artists is presented. Eleven web imag...
anger that lead to one of the most fertile periods in American history. I have chosen to approach the Harlem Renaissance through ...
that were performed with four to six singers, comprising a group of individuals making different sounds and imitations. "A madriga...
a woman did have talent and want to compose, Brown tells us her only choice was to enter a convent, where she would "receive the p...
status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...
for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...
Madonna is another version of the Madonna/Child pairing, but this time Christ is an infant. The relief, which is 74.5 x 69.5 centi...
is granted to him to seek after the truth. Science is the legitimate and beloved daughter of the Church. She must have confidence ...
In the story one can see the unique style, and the power of his art that would forever serve to influence relief sculpture of the ...
received by his Florentine father (Craven 83-84). From the earliest age, young Leonardo exhibited what appeared to be an endless ...
Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...
inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...
Hurston and Langston Hughes. Hurston was a novelist probably best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, a tale of a confident bl...
spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...
is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...
during this period that Europe began to recover from the repercussions of the Black Death, as well as rampant political disorder a...
fair I might have provd me wise:/ But I did think because I knew me chaste,/ One virtue for a woman might suffice./ That mind for ...
to his demands because she was "a dutiful daughter" (Life and Death in a Venetian Convent 26). AS a dutiful daughter she did as sh...
not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...
has the reputation of being "the paragon of Renaissance thinkers, engaged as he was in experiments of all kinds and having brought...
thinking and a new freedom. Perhaps this gave those who were inclined to change the impetus to do so. Many of the well known peopl...