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surrounded by a host of celestial maidens... So awe-struck was the disciple that he immediately took up hammer and chisel, hollo...

those external standards that are often the most telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art....

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

protrudes from the ceiling, perhaps signifying the heavens (Searle). Behind the woman is a tapestry which features the crucifixio...

observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...

this we are given a painting that evokes soft and sensuous feelings that are easy to pinpoint due to the fact that this painting h...

This essay presents a proposal to purchase reproductions of 3 impressionist paintings and 3 Post-Impressionist. The art works are ...

with the exception of Renoir and those who shared in the pairs experiments with color and technique. Monet banished black and gra...

the Dead Watching" Despite the fact that he painted numerous tropical scenes and used the colors of the jungles and oceans of the...

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

world of art was also introduced to a unique paradigm of a painting technique and skill known today as miniatures. The emperors of...

its geometrical balance with the map, and essentially we are presented with an incredibly intense visual image. But, is this parti...

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

radical of all times. These changes are particularly interesting in regard to the manner in which they changed the artistic depic...

hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...

some style to the films. "One group of filmmakers who were experimenting with cinematic technique were those who emerged from B...

regards to this Renoir is often noted as being perhaps the only artist who never painted a sad painting. Many quote him in regards...

the time. In regards to this Renoir is often noted as being perhaps the only artist who never painted a sad painting. Many quote h...

a passage in Polizianos La giostra Gombrich successfully adduced Ficinis interpretation of the mythical birth of Venus from the se...

elder brother Giovanni, who was nicknamed "Il Botticello," which means "little barrel" (Schmeckebier 138). It is believed he was ...

the 19th century but his work had been censured and placed away for much of that time due to the fact that he focused mainly on li...

nurturers. So, while the characters, and the environment, of both pictures differ greatly there is also a sense of femininity that...

so distant from the restricted Venetian veduta" (Bellotto Bernardo: Venice 1721 - Warsaw 1780). Such a description does offer the ...

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...

to be next in line for killing and then the men with the guns and uniforms. The painting is incredibly dark save for one bright, a...

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

being a "practical" discipline. It provides outstanding mental exercise, but its difficult to see how debates about the nature of ...