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Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt Van Rijn

on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...

Renaissance Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

View of the Tiber with Castel SantAngelo by Bellotto

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

Jacques Louis David and French Revolution Art

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

Waterlilies and Willow Branches by Claude Monet

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

The Concert by Pierre Auguste Renoir

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

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

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

Art from Classical,, Romanesque, Gothic, and Early Renaissance Periods

As Adams indicates, the archaic smile is now gone and stylization has decreased. Another marked change involved the materials used...

Medieval and Renaissance Artistic Depictions of Women

womanly figure that offered men a very subdued connection to women. The fact that this connection with women was incredibly subdue...

Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

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...

Two Works of Tibetan Art

statue conveys a sense of well being to the viewer. In this statue, the Avalolkitesvara is pictured in interesting pose that sugge...

The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Jan Vermeer

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

Overview of the French Realist Period

nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...

Magdalen with the Smoking Flame by Georges de la Tour

second of course has the flame smoking and Mary just beginning to show the signs of pregnancy. The third has Mary obviously pregna...

Comparison of Paul Gauguin's La Orana Maria and Johannes Vermeer's Allegory of the Faith

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

Edouard Manet's Artistry

known to be a determined individualist, and was known for the time when he asked a group of models about their ridiculous poses - ...

Operation Iraq and History of France Since the Renaissance

to Europe as a whole was indeed phenomenal. To understand the internal impacts of Louis XIV it is necessary to understand the soc...

Pablo Picasso and Francisco Goya

of Madrid). Another author notes that, "Goyas sensitivity to these events resulted in his best print series and furthermore in a m...

Rembrandt's The Raising of Lazarus

white and is the focus of most of the people in the painting, also brings the line of viewing down and across the bottom. The c...

The Bridge at Argenteuil and The Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet

We see the moist and secretive environment and truly gain a feel for the garden and the water which abounds in the painting. It is...

Conversion of St. Paul by Caravaggio

In a paper consisting of twenty pages this painting is examined particularly in terms of the artist's use of shadow and light as w...

Life and Works of Artist Toulouse Lautrec

Toulouse Lautrec's life and art are explored in a paper consisting of 15 pages that includes his fin de siecle social involvement ...

Artist Lee Krasner's Work

The Eye is the First Circle is among the paintings discussed in this overview of the works of artist Lee Krasner in a paper consis...

20th Century Energy in the Cubism Art of Georges Braque and Poetry of Carl Sandburg

In 5 pages this paper compares Braque's Houses at L'Estaque painting with Carl Sandburg's 'Chicago' poem in a consideration of how...

Mademoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso

tangible formation. That he also was a talented sculptor speaks to the fact that Picasso was fully capable of translating his two...

Lee Krasner's Artistry

as the primary colors. These colors conveyed her sorrow as well as her insomnia. "The Eye Is the First Circle" is an example featu...

Abstract Artist Wassily Kandinsky

a superior art form to painting (Dabrowski ppg). Wagners Lohengrin, which had stirred Kandinsky to devote his life to art, had con...

Auden, Braque, and Picasso

the eye through the painting. Colors are the restrained grays, whites, browns, and blacks that had dominated Analytical Cubism si...

Abstract Artist Philip Guston

In five pages Philip Guston's paintings Head and the Bottle and Late Afternoon are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cit...

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

In five pages Hopper's 1942 painting is examined in terms of meaning and techniques such as shading and color. Four sources are c...