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Dutch Art Market of the 17th Century

and against what was perceived as the lavish and licentious nature of the Catholics, paintings with religious subjects were forbid...

17th Century Baltic Sea and Sweden

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how Russia was affected by the growing 17th century power of Sweden. Ten sources are cited ...

Lloyd's of London History

This paper discusses the 17th century origins of Lloyd's Coffee House and how it evolved into the Lloyd's of London insurance inst...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

'The Garden' and 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell

These two 17th century poems by Andrew Marvell are compared and contrasted in a research paper consisting of ten pages. Five sour...

English Literature of the 17th Century

In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...

Many Head Hydra by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

With this pronouncement, this group adjured to the woods to start their own settlement; however, it failed. This attempt at indepe...

Four Idols of Francis Bacon

In five pages the 17th century philosophy of Francis Bacon is examined within the context of 'four idols' and argues in favor of h...

Material Substance and G.W. Leibniz

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

Early History of Women's Subjugation

In three pages this paper presents a brief overview of women's subjugation from the ancient period until the 17th century. One so...

Spread of Islam and Christianity

In nine pages this paper discusses the rise of these religions from the 17th century and its continued spread with contemporary co...

Fire from Heaven by David Underdown

In six pages this text as it examines 17th century English village life analyzes its portrayal of Puritan reform movements in Dorc...

Scientific Quest and Realism

In five pages this paper discusses the quest for scientific knowledge that began during the 17th century and considers the develop...

'Ardo e scoprir' Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

Chinese Painters of the 17th Century Shi T'ao and Kung Hsien

In five pages this paper examines these two Chinese individualist painters of the 17th century in terms of how life and artistic s...

German Composer Heinrich Schutz and His Music

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

Comedy Ballet Le Bougeois Gentilhomme by Moliere

outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century, which has been called t...

17th Century Heroic Scientists

assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...

How Women Lived in the 17th and 18th Centuries

essentially the same as they were in the colonies, aside from the fact that slaves were far more important in the colonies, or bec...

17th Century American Economic Thought

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

'Medici Cycle' of Peter Paul Rubens

of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...

Home Architecture of the Early South

a storehouse (Lane 9). In contrast to the shrinking forest of Europe where timber was already scarce, North America abounded wit...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

17th Century Great Britain and the Navigation Acts

use British chops and increase their costs. It was this Act that subsequently led to the Anglo-Dutch war. In 1660 there was a tig...

17th Century Dutch Painter Vermeer

View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...

17th Century Dutch Paintings' Vanitas Style

situation is shown through the inclusion of some element out of place, in Beyerens case, a small mouse. Beyerens use of th...

Windows of G.W. Leibniz

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

Woman Holding a Balance Painting by Jan Vermeer

to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...