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Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

Gauguin's Treatment of the Tahitian Nude

Gauguin's Tahitian Body is compared with Going Native. This comprehensive analysis includes a look at this compelling topic in a v...

Art, Philosophy, and History of the Renaissance

also equated with humanism, a movement that put man at the center of the universe, as opposed to God (Honderich 375). While the hu...

The History of Photography

This paper discusses the history of photography, and discusses chemicals, lenses, and the impact of photography on art and journa...

Holocaust Remembrance Through Literature and Art

In five pages this paper discusses how it is important to remember the Holocaust through art and history with The Diary of Anne Fr...

An Overviw of the Etruscans in Ancient Western Civilization

This eleven page report considers Etruscan history, politics, and society as a whole. Cultural reflections such as language and ...

European History and Confrontation

In five pages confrontation throughout European history concentrating on the years 1848 through 1989 are examined as portrayed in ...

Artistic Representations of Rulers

In five pages this paper discusses how secular and sacred rulers have been artistically represented from this art history perspect...

Les Demoiselle d'Avignon Painting by Pablo Picasso

In five pages this Cubist work of art is examined in terms of history, texture, color, line, and composition. Four sources are li...

Background of Madrid in Terms of History and Literature

This paper consists of seven pages and concentrates on the rich history and literature of the Spanish capital of Madrid and the th...

Overview of Karate

In five pages karate is considered in an overview of history, theory, and basic martial arts techniques. Four sources are cited i...

Computer Aided Graphic Design

foci) is constant. The parabola is a set of points in a plane that are equal distances from a given line (the directrix) and a gi...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Typography and the Avant Garde Art Movement

spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...

Science and Art According to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

The History and Evolution of Fingerprinting

This paper examines the art and science of fingerprinting. The author discusses the history and evolution of fingerprinting techn...

The Renaissance Through Impressionism

The so-called Early Renaissance is among the more interesting of these periods. So too, however, are the Late Renaissance and the...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

African American History as Reflected Through Art

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

Instruction and Tolkien's The Hobbit

This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...

Neo-Classicism and Romanticism

This research paper uses the Neo-Classicist painter Jacques-Louis David's "Oath of Horatii" and Romanticist Eugene Delacroix's "Li...

Viaduct at L'Estague by Georges Braque

This essay discusses "Viaduct at L'Estague" by Georges Braque, which founded Cubism. The writer analyzes the painting within the c...

Graphic Arts and its History

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...

Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

Syncretism, History and Art

with religion and the general worldview of that of society, it also became more complex, as it began to reflect the philosophical ...

History of Cityscapes

suggest that it was part of Neros palace.5 It is believed by scholars that the function of these cityscapes, that is, aerial views...

Rebranding a Museum

and special displays. The MMAH permanent collection includes a wide variety of works representing many cultures and eras. Among th...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...