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Responses to Essays in The Bedford Reader

and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...

Two Art Figures from the Ancient World

This research contrasts and compares two art figures from ancient civilizations, which are part of the collection at the Metropoli...

Detailed Analysis/Retrospective Exhibit on Orozco

Orozco, biographical information and his art philosophy Orozco was born in 1962 in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and studied art at th...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Houston's Museum of Fine Arts

white and black color scheme of the bird (white feathers, black accent on the tips of its wings, black legs) stand out in sharp co...

Art Collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...

Landmark Buildings of NYC

of the pyramidal spire. As Flagg did, Gilbert has a tower shaft that rises from a supporting block base, but to maximize the expr...

Questions on Art History

narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...

Pictures of the Apocalypse at the Met

versions of the Bible. "In addition to lavishly illustrated volumes of the Book of Revelation, such as this example, isolated scen...

20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

both sides of the border throughout the Southwest. Here, the boxcar is a solid black shape that fills almost the entire area of th...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

The “Sensation” Art Show, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999

stuff "winning rather than off-putting," noting that he is an "equal-opportunity elephant-dung employer," using it to make support...

Same-Sex Behavior And Pederastic Relationships In Athens: Not All Ancient Authors Approved

and Socrates meander along the countryside, they talk about the various facets love harbors like heavenly passion all-important fr...

Monumentality in Architecture

in the new Renaissance style" (Essential Architecture, 2008). One can see this monumental element through the relatively flat exte...

Analysis of the Ancient Near East Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art

holdings of a museum; the works that the museum owns and takes care of (The permanent collection, 2008). The Metropolitan owns mor...

Jean-Paul Sartre/The Flies

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

Cycladic Figure Art

In five pages the Museum of the Legion of Honor's Cycladic figure is examined in terms of its goddess religious significance. Fou...

Museum Tour and the Social Class Theory of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines how Karl Marx's theory of social class can manifest itself in a museum tour. Five sources are c...

Society and American Pop Art

In five pages this paper examines pop art as featured at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in terms of history and th...

Madonna of the Clouds by Donatello

In nine pages this Donatello piece as featured in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is considered in terms of this marble's relationshi...

Comparison of Greek Art: Getty Villa Museum

the colors, whereas the Storage Jar with Achilles and Ajax Gaming is a black figure painting because the figures are in black. Des...

The Art of Alice Neel

and the paintbrush she holds. Small touches of red in her face and in the shadows of her neck and legs, punch up the contrast of ...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

Peabody Museum Collection of Mineralogy

In five pages this paper examines the science of mineralogy and considers the important collection housed at Yale University's Pea...

Experiencing the Dachau Museum

In five pages the Dachau Museum is discussed in terms what vistors can expect to see and experience there. Four sources are cited...

Galleries and Wings of a Trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Described V

An exhibit reaction paper of two pages considers the various African, Asian, Greek, and Roman wings and galleries of NYC's Metropo...

Pros and Cons of a National Museum of Women in the Arts

CONSTITUENCY One can imagine that the primary audience or constituency will likely be female supporters. Indeed, there will also...

Analytical Reaction to a Visit to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

'Street Light' by Giacomo and 'Departure' by Max Beckmann are the focus of this analytical reaction paper on a visit to the Metrop...

Period Art Describes After a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art II

Japanese, African, Roman, and Greek works of art are discussed in this reaction paper to a trip taken to the Metropolitan Museum o...

Istanbul, Turkey's Habia Sophia

In ten pages this research paper examines Turkey's Christian church turned Istanbul museum that features a mathematical design in ...