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Tempestuous Paintings of Caravaggio

than painting. The jealous man heaped insults on Lena. Upon hearing of this, Caravaggio hit the young lawyer with a powerful blow ...

Overview of the Gothic Cathedral's Architectural Style

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

Influences of Classical Greece

pervaded Western architecture for more than two millennia. The Greek temple emerged as the archetypal shrine of all time. Unlike ...

McCarthyism and Anti-Communist Action During the 1950s

becomes apparent that the coverage of the matter was varied, but there was seemingly a government preference. After all, people in...

Themes in the Gothic

the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...

Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost

imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...

Ancient Egypt, Its History and People

did happen, as Hatshepsuts rule illustrates (Hillard and Wurtzel 25). A particularly interesting aspect of her rule is the way in ...

Mayan Art and Architecture

This research paper discusses art and architecture in the ancient Mayan civilization. Three pages in length, two sources are cited...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

Slavery & Religious Principles

feet" (Grimke 2)(all citations refer to the page number in the source document transmitted by the student researching this topic)....

Minimalist Architecture

styles as well (Salingaros, 2001). It is important to note that what divides the two types is the fact that whether or not there i...

Art Deco: New York City

style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...

The King's Quarters at Versailles

of design that was popular in Europe, but particularly in France during the 1700s5. Interior design and ornamentation are aspects ...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

Art of Slavery

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

Art History Questions

content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...

Urban Art as a Reflection of Urban Culture

This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

Progressive Era and Modern Issues

the sentiments of the time very well when he said that political leaders had to use Hamiltonian means to ensure Jeffersonian ends ...

Arabian Nights Women and the Women of Contemporary America

However, after a while they carried me into a neat bathroom leading out of the hall, and as I sat there, behold, in came three sla...

Era Transitioning

400 years later and the great socialist "experiment" envisioned by Lenin and washed in blood by Stalin. Catherine the Great...

Soveriegnty in the Modern Era

the attempts in Canada to focus on sovereign control, aboriginal sovereignty, attempts by Quebec to determined their own sovereign...

Political and Government Systems of Ancient Rome

(Encarta). The logic of having two leaders or "co-consuls" was based on the idea that having two men in charge would keep either o...

Modern Criticism of Descartes' Dualism

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

Reform and the UK House Of Lords

leader of the revolutionary Puritans, Oliver Cromwell worked diligently to release his people from the grips of oppression. His b...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

China Aspects

In fifteen pages such aspects that characterize China including Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, along with the National and Commun...

Modern Era and 1870 to 1920 Development

In five pages this paper examines how the Victorian Age evolved into the modern era with sociological change and the Industrial Re...