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the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...
fit the mold of others who painted during the Baroque period. Historically, Toledo was a center of inquisition activity and int...
of any type of outstanding art, be it painting, sculpture or any other form, is the ability to hold the viewers gaze, to cause the...
for aesthetic as well a religious purposes, and expressed the mythological subjects favored by the humanists, who enjoyed their hi...
Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...
along with the request that his "Dido Building Carthage" and "Sun Rise Through Vapor" be displayed alongside Claudes "Seaport with...
children (Farris 149). However, maintaining home and hearth did not provide sufficient stimulus for a passionate woman like Maria...
the figure of the mythological god. Bacchus is looking away from the young man in front of him, his eyes shifted to the side, with...
sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...
Spain in the mid-1500s, privately owned French ships - pirates in the eyes of the Spanish - attacked Spanish ships and ports in th...
essentially the same as they were in the colonies, aside from the fact that slaves were far more important in the colonies, or bec...
new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...
Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...
This essay present a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, renown 17th century mathematician and scientist. Three pages in length, two so...
three types of characters - one who to be killed, one to kill, and one to avenge the killer (89). For audiences during the early ...
to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...
In twelve pages European military officer training during this time period is examined in a discussion of informal British approac...
8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...
In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...
This paper discusses the 17th century origins of Lloyd's Coffee House and how it evolved into the Lloyd's of London insurance inst...
In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...
These two 17th century poems by Andrew Marvell are compared and contrasted in a research paper consisting of ten pages. Five sour...
Armande and Henriette, sisters and daughters to Chrysale and his wife Philaminte. In this scene, Moliere presents both sides of th...
trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...
Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses how Russia was affected by the growing 17th century power of Sweden. Ten sources are cited ...
In five pages the 17th century philosophy of Francis Bacon is examined within the context of 'four idols' and argues in favor of h...
In 5 pages, these rations are explained not only in terms of the effects of the physical environment but also in an economic, poli...
They would found the first permanent English colony, New England. Some twenty-one thousand would arrive between 1630 and 1642 (Re...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...