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The Nude in Art History

also has fertility connotations ("The Nude...History"). However, in Greek art, the nude takes on a different function, as Greek ar...

The Definition of Art

had no concept of art as we understand the term" (Department of Art History Sweet Briar College, 2008). They were likely items tha...

Ritual and Museums

which is that the exhibits are intended to facilitate the "growth" and "learning" of the visitors (Virtual tour, 2004). The first...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

Holocaust Remembrance Through Literature and Art

In five pages this paper discusses how it is important to remember the Holocaust through art and history with The Diary of Anne Fr...

History of Cityscapes

suggest that it was part of Neros palace.5 It is believed by scholars that the function of these cityscapes, that is, aerial views...

Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

Rebranding a Museum

and special displays. The MMAH permanent collection includes a wide variety of works representing many cultures and eras. Among th...

Syncretism, History and Art

with religion and the general worldview of that of society, it also became more complex, as it began to reflect the philosophical ...

Native American Algonquin Tribe

variety of dialects (1999). Algonquian-speaking peoples have dominated most of the northeastern North America (1999). Also confus...

The Evolution of Cinema

This 8 page paper discusses the main turning points in the history of cinema, the technology, and speculates on the future of th...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History, Europe, and the Norton Simon Museum

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

Graphic Arts and its History

But in terms of its more commercial use as understood by modern people, it is a relatively new art form and should be thought of a...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Typography and the Avant Garde Art Movement

spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...

Science and Art According to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

Critique of Georges Bataille’s 1949 Essay ‘The Cruel Practice of Art’

of cruelty. According to Bataille, who was well known for his atheist views, constantly reproducing Christs crucifixion glorifies...

'The History Book' and School Textbooks on History

One that attracts a great deal of attention as been the American Kennedy Family, others may be less well known as it s the accumul...

Titian & Michelangelo/Their Pietas

to a "fever" and Orazio also perished due to the plague ("Art...Titian"). Due to the circumstances, the emotion conveyed by the ...

History and Traps

discovered that she was pregnant after Harry left for the War. It sounds like a soap opera because Harry did not return from the ...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory And Motivation

divisions within the structure are Technical Organizations, and Support Organizations (ORNL, How, 2007). Each heading and each div...

U.S. History, Native Americans, and Immigrants

In eight pages this paper examines American history with an emphasis upon the significant role of immigrants, struggles of the Nat...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Holy Water

As they enter, the dip finger tips of their right hand into a font of water that has been consecrated by a priest and they make th...

Art Criticism and Pollock

I am more at ease...I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and ...