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James Van Der Zee's Harlem Renaissance Photography

James Van Der Zee. During the 1920s, James Van Der Zee took photograph after photograph and turned his attention to showing Harl...

PE and the Effects of the Renaissance

the way people understood the workings of their bodies and the ways in which science was able to respond to issues such as illness...

Renaissance Europe and Artistic Talent and Genius

time spent in the workshop of a painter. Here they would learn how to copy painting by the artist. This would aid in the developme...

Early Renaissance Literature, Architecture, Art, and Theology Integration

their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...

1920s' Harlem Economy

by the river while the wealthier classes lived uptown. By 1890, massive immigration resulted in over 71% of New Yorkers being eith...

Sport of the Gods by Paul Dunbar and Symbolism

In five pages this Harlem Renaissance period text is analyzed in terms of symbolism particularly in the title. There are no other...

Benjamin Franklin

In eight pages The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is used to gain some insights into this true Renaissance man and great Ameri...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Superstition During the Renaissance

superstitious practices that were adhered to so rigidly, it should not be surprising that the citizens of the Renaissance also bel...

The Role of the Venetian Army during the Italian Renaissance

but no one can take away Italys prowess during the time period and the strength of the Venetian Navy is also something significant...

Renaissance and Humanistic Art

intellectualism" of the medieval universities began to give way before the warmth of "Franciscan emotionalism" (Fleming 162). This...

Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston

her age and a man that treats her badly. In many ways he enslaves her and she feels helpless to leave him. Finally, Janie shares t...

Works and Philosophy of Ezra Pound

trial for treason, and confined to a mental hospital in Washington, D.C. On his release in 1958, he returned to Italy, where he di...

Renaissance Italy and City Planning

In twelve pages Rome, Florence, and Venice are the central focus of this research paper that considers the Renaissance role in Ita...

Italian Renaissance and the Bronze Doors of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral

In five pages this paper examines how the architecture of the Italian Renaissance, specifically Lorenzo Ghiberti's Baptistery at S...

Ghiberti v. Donatello

nude known to have been made since ancient times (1996). His work during the third period of his life, when divided by artistic en...

Vitruvian Man and Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

In four pages this paper examines these paintings' 'imperfections' and what they may perhaps reveal about the Renaissance concepts...

Botticelli's Birth of the Virgin and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles

In five pages this paper examines how these Renaissance and twentieth century paintings reflect social attitudes and scientific pr...

Art of the Renaissance and Human Nature

renaissance view of human nature by examining the works of the great renaissance artists. The Renaissance View of Human Nature The...

Renaissance Contributions of Michelangelo

of this prolonged gloom. This period of time catapulted the citizens of Europe from the land of the dark to a world filled with co...

Comparison Between Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo

follows "A good painter must paint two things above all others the person and the intent of that persons soul" (qtd. in North 16)....

Two Paintings of the Italian Renaissance Compared

universe (Fleming 191). Michelangelo also divided the overall painting into three different zones in which there are varying inten...

Renaissance Painters, Raphael vs. Michelangelo

reverse order, "or as the Platonic ascent of man from his lowest estate back to his divine origin" (Fleming 192). Michelangelos ...

Photo Project Design

In six pages a photographic project based upon Renaissance artist Franz Hal's theme reflected in Laughing Cavalier is presented an...

Musical and Artistic Influences of African Americans

In five pages this research paper considers how music and artistic influences of African Americans have been significant since the...

African American Poetic Modernism

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

Creative Essay About the Harlem Renaissance

In five pages this paper features the 1920s' 'Harlem Renaissance' in a creative essay describing a young black girl who dreams to ...

Reawakening and Art of the Harlem Renaissance

In five pages this paper argues that literature of the Harlem Renaissance was responsible for commencing an artistic, intellectual...

Harlem Renaissance and White Literary Movements

This was not necessarily the case, but the self-assertion required for such a huge segment of a population to pick up and move cha...

'Passing' and the Harlem Renaissance

hiding ones true race be significant? Two points must be made in order to answer this question. First, the literature of the Harl...