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the activities that took place there were not everyday activities - probably ritual activities" (Petersen, 2001; paleo.htm). Be...

and is known as the curly script for the form it adopts after each stroke (Calligraphy). Emperor Qin Shi Huang modified ancient z...

forms. This Snake Goddess--who shakes two snakes as an animal sits on her head--may have been used as part of this ritual" (Anonym...

world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...

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...

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...

face (Higgins 95). This oneness with and reverence for nature is also depicted quite excellently in the so-called "Toreador" fres...

from the buildings as they collapsed, this rendition had proved controversial. In fact, all art is controversial. Several years ag...

This report contrasts and compares the art from the ancient Minoan culture and Sumer in five pages. Six sources are cited in the ...

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

this "a bitter argument" arose "at the Royal Academy, fellow students labeled Millais, Hunt, and anybody else who shared their bel...

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...

comes to the aid of Hrothgar: "Thou Hrothgar, hail! Hygelacs I, kinsman and follower. Fame a plenty have I gained in youth! These...

for more than five thousand years"(ITR, 2002). How the Egyptians discovered the process is as big a mystery as any other technolo...

long held beliefs, intellectual theories, and works her way deep into the root causes, in her opinion, of much of the social and r...

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

viewpoint dictated, both in terms of the structure of the work - angle, perspective, distance and so on - and the content. From a ...

and an introduction of new and exploratory forms. However, the term has now also come to mean other forms of grotesquerie or absur...

a deep concern regarding the purpose and objectives of the high school. There were two separate philosophies regarding the purpose...

with a quote from Stewart who states the following: "They saw the custom as a concrete manifestation of such desirable manly attri...

II. DETAILS Organization of the Dymaxion House interior spaces lends itself to Fullers desire to maintain an apparent relat...

the people in the portraits are from particular backgrounds. Of course, one may speculate that anyone who commissioned an artist ...

a more useful graduate" (Patterson, 1990, p. 69). The extent to which educators deal with both internal and external issues is ov...

called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...

of the World Trade centre we see that they were perceived not only as a commercial centre, but as a part of the New York skyline, ...

artists involved in art nouveau were particularly interested in the way that the new technology which had evolved out of industria...

looking. By the tilt of her head and the direction of her eyes you will see that she is looking, almost staring at the lower left...