Essays 61 - 90
This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...
social context, with various issues raised and moral judgments questioned by the readers and listeners (Aughterson 274). In Engla...
that it was so primitive. Yet, that is a time that came after the Renaissance when everything changed a great deal. The Renaissa...
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 ...
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 ...
writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...
woodworkers who practiced their craft in northern Italian cities crafted lutes that generally had "six courses and pear shaped bod...
received by his Florentine father (Craven 83-84). From the earliest age, young Leonardo exhibited what appeared to be an endless ...
being a "practical" discipline. It provides outstanding mental exercise, but its difficult to see how debates about the nature of ...
has the reputation of being "the paragon of Renaissance thinkers, engaged as he was in experiments of all kinds and having brought...
many perhaps who were disgruntled with the lack of freedom and the disrespect and oppression. They faced such realities in light o...
creates a very interesting and intriguing mix of people who were not easily stereotyped as most whites would have assumed. Watki...
power, and Petrarch headed a revolution in reason that damned Medieval society. The fed the new view of humanity and artistic ende...
properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...
was also politically active, for "the planners in the Harlem Renaissance also sought to promote racial equality with whites by val...
instrument and during the Renaissance period flutes and reed instruments were widely used. One author notes, "The basic reed instr...
obtained the quality he called "grazia," which he used to describe a "kind of perfect divine beauty" (Witcombe). A work of art cam...
The April 2011 Japanese Earthquakes and the resulting Fukushima...
The so-called Early Renaissance is among the more interesting of these periods. So too, however, are the Late Renaissance and the...
Art has evolved in response to numerous societal factors....
Ages were a time of intense emotion. Every event brought intense feelings and the people expressed those feelings as a child might...
mimicry and metaphor (Braunmuller and Hattaway 93; Kennedy 64). It is interesting to note that drama was using similar tools othe...
This research paper describes aspects of Renaissance architecture. Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
This research paper discusses the career of Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), his buildings and his influence on architecture at t...
This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...
and soul. II. Explanation of the Philosophy ? Fundamental Philosophical Tenets Renaissance humanism began as an intellectual m...
regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...
drudgery, disease and misery of the Middle Ages. The Hundred Years War and the plague marked the end of this period, and as Europe...
Introduction In world history there have been times of great growth and change, often referred to as renaissance periods. While m...
In twelve pages Rome, Florence, and Venice are the central focus of this research paper that considers the Renaissance role in Ita...