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Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

IRA Actions in Great Britain and Terrorism

are made define an abstract concept, there will always be some groups who are able to find exceptions to the definition because of...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Yugoslavian Cultural, Political, and Social Conflict

incorporated Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - three different ethnic groups, but a country in which the Serbians formed the dominant c...

The Apple Tree Dutch Medieval Morality Play

their apples will find himself stuck fast to the tree until Open Heart releases them ("Apple Tree" 453). God agrees. 8. ACTIONS ...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Contrasting Belgium and Dutch Immigration Policy

Dutch beaches and gays kissing (Crouch). However, others, such as a colleague of Van Gogh argue that these tactics are intended si...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Neo-Classicism and Romanticism

This research paper uses the Neo-Classicist painter Jacques-Louis David's "Oath of Horatii" and Romanticist Eugene Delacroix's "Li...

The Flemish School and Jane Austen

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Emma, by Jane Austen. The text is compared to the naturalistic techniques employed ...

Edgar Degas and Interpretations of Dance

their videos and use it on stage. Madonna, and Michael and Janet Jackson, are just a few pop stars who incorporate dance into thei...

Commercial Law Questions

expected that it was Gary. Contract law doe not make assumptions regarding the level of consideration, only that it exits, the lev...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

Attic Red Figure by Antiphon Painter

possesses what is called a Komos, a celebration that consists of drinking and dancing and music (Krannert Art Museum [2], 2006). T...

Van Eyck and Velasquez

the bed (Jan Van Eycks Arnolfini "Wedding" Portrait). Finally, the light source is a window to the left, and the daylight illumina...

Amedeo Modigliani: Portrait of the Painter Manuel Humbert

other from afar: two hills which would be the birthplaces of the worlds of yesterday and today."4 In essence, it was a time of gre...

Spanish Surrealists Joan Miro and Salvador Dali

proficiency for painting early, and was imitating the intricate brushstrokes of Impressionists by the age of eight (Baatz Salvador...

Cubism and Pablo Picasso

to retreat from Cubism into a period of traditional painting and sculpture. According to Krause, Picassos foray into traditiona...

Jacksonn Pollock's 'Process' Art

that will form the core of our discussion concerning American Abstract Expressionist painter, Jackson Pollock (1912-56). Paint Har...

The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France

Brotteaux, Julie, Father Longuemare, Citizeness Rochemaure and Athenais, attention should be paid to whether or not these individu...

Artistic Similarities Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David

of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...

Frida Kahlo's Colors and Artistic Intimacy

as well as her physical problems from contracting polio as a child and injuries that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925...

Premier Modern Painter Edouard Manet

the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...

Neolithic Period to Tang Dynasty Chinese Paintings

were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...

Song Dynasty Artistry of Ma Yuan

album leaf (Ma Yflan). The style is "intimate, lyrical and delicate," with an emphasis on "less" rather than "more" (Ma Yflan). Li...

Notes of a Painter by Henri Matisse

are two ways of expressing things; one is to show them crudely, the other is to evoke them artistically. In abandoning the literal...

Song Dynasty Chinese Painters and Paintings

One was Go Xi who "was a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and a follower of Li Cheng in style. He was the first to ...

Muralists of Mexico, Orozco, Siquieros, and Rivera

The aristocratic sections of society had fully embraced all things European and as such had negated their Indian and native origin...