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Paintings by Tintoretto and Da Vinci on the Last Supper

focuses on the men at the table, with Jesus in the center of the painting. In Tintorettos painting it is as if we are looking in a...

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

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...

Cassatt and “Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child

the Worlds Columbian Exposition, which was held in Chicago in 1893 (LACMA). While her depictions of mothers and children represent...

Mary Cassatt: “A Cup of Tea”

(Pollock 10). Thus, we need to see what Impressionisms characteristics are, and compare them to the painting. The Web Museum, an o...

Communicating Effectively & Internal Publics

publics (CERP, 2007). According to the Confederation Europeenne des Relations Publique (CERP)(European Public Relations Confederat...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

Don Quixote and Velasquez’ Las Meninas

There is also another element which one could utilize to connect the two. This comes with the setting of the painting. It appears,...

The Influence of Medieval Christianity on Art of the Time

version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanline...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

Mark Bradford and Claude Monet Compared and Contrasted

that Im trying to really figure out" (Bradford, 2006). One cannot help relate the artists words to the painting itself. Similarly,...

Who Is Mona Lisa?

comprehend it with ease" since Leonardo had captured "all the minutenesses that with subtlety are able to be painted" (Halsall). T...

Article Comparison #1: Koehn & Warren

3 pages in length. The beginning of the twentieth century was rife with improvements to everyday commodities that up until this t...

Wolfflin and Friedlander and Anti-Mannerism

painters of the Italian Renaissance "strove to achieve the image of perfection at rest within itself. Every form developed to self...

Two Bathing Paintings

that of the tree trunks, gives a strong diagonal component to the work, running from the top left to the bottom right. The use of ...

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles

religious. In terms of it being historical, one may assume, without the presence of the title, that he could be a historical figur...

Michelangelo's The Last Judgment

Michelangelos fear inspired piece. While it is likely that Michelangelo was inspired by religion, it should be pointed out that t...

Ruysch: Floral Still Life

to get a decent representation on a computer monitor.) But we do know that she was a pupil of van Aelst, and that he worked with v...

Cimabue's "Madonna And Child Enthroned By Angels"

opportunity to create an illusion so grand that the observer is unable to determine what is image and what is reality. Light is t...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Artistic Styles of Spanish Baroque and Flemish

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

Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini's Marriage

fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...

Paint Caused the Hindenburg Disaster

to the belief that it was hydrogen that caused the flames and also because the United States and Germany were at a very tense posi...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Execution of the Third of May by Francisco Goya

to be next in line for killing and then the men with the guns and uniforms. The painting is incredibly dark save for one bright, a...

Sloop, Nassau by Winslow Homer

at more than those two dimensions. This is achieved through limiting his use of shading and only subtly hinting at it, such as see...

Artists Courbet, Monet, and Manet

clouds that are very sensuous in their round form. We are also given the flowing nature of the waves despite their horizontal posi...