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liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...

modern, the setting and the rising stars, were in the sky together ... As the rift between the spiritual and the material values w...

at heart. Some speculate that because his family had been poor, becoming a priest was his only way to get an education ("Antonio V...

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

Ages to the beginning of the Renaissance (roughly from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries) (Artcyclopedia). Generally religious ...

opinion that the money spent on these monumental tributes to the sovereignty of God could have better been spent on providing for ...

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

period saw one of the most important changes in all of music history-the "transition from the medieval church modes to major-minor...

archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...

strings. The piano has a heavy iron frame, thick strings (with some wrapped wire), pedals (including a sustain pedal), and one key...

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...

clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

describe the art from the baroque period they would include: spacious, dynamic, natural, colorful, passionate, sensual and versat...

At the same time, there was a new found wealth to come through the newly erupting middle class ("The Baroque" 2003). It was a time...

order to provide more accurate representation of the human body. The advances in knowledge made during these years is evide...

in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...

In a paper consisting of twenty pages this painting is examined particularly in terms of the artist's use of shadow and light as w...

of Johann Sebastian Bach clearly represent the elements of inert expression while, at the same time, project a distinct sense of p...

In five pages this lone work by an Italian painter from the Baroque period is examined in terms of identification of different inf...

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

of Josquin in the manner in which one pair of voices appears to be pitted against another (Machlis 259). Claudio Monteverdis mus...

Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...

demonstrated in collection of pieces, "The Well-Tempered Clavier." With this discovery, the stage was set for Baroque music to flo...

architecture as though one were looking through a framed window. With each subsequent step in the process of establishing linear ...

In six pages this paper consists of the predominant portraiture of the Baroque period and includes discussion of Rembrandt, Judith...

used two themes, which were contrasted by the composer within a homophonic texture. In other words, the fugue depended on theme ...

and reality. It was a completely unique movement which "generated its own standards" and cannot, therefore, "be measured by class...