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was also politically active, for "the planners in the Harlem Renaissance also sought to promote racial equality with whites by val...

mimicry and metaphor (Braunmuller and Hattaway 93; Kennedy 64). It is interesting to note that drama was using similar tools othe...

often described as the "greatest composer of the Renaissance," with some scholars ranking him alongside Back, Mozart and Beethoven...

to be the quintessential example of a Renaissance man, as his talents encompassed a breadth of subjects, from art and sculpture to...

with the name of Chris Matthews because this is the name of the MSNBC television show on which Matthews appears as the host. Howev...

This research paper discusses the career of Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), his buildings and his influence on architecture at t...

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...

Madonna is another version of the Madonna/Child pairing, but this time Christ is an infant. The relief, which is 74.5 x 69.5 centi...

In four pages this paper considers spirituality during early Christian, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation, and in the contempo...

Hurston and Langston Hughes. Hurston was a novelist probably best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, a tale of a confident bl...

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

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

In the story one can see the unique style, and the power of his art that would forever serve to influence relief sculpture of the ...

received by his Florentine father (Craven 83-84). From the earliest age, young Leonardo exhibited what appeared to be an endless ...

not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

to his demands because she was "a dutiful daughter" (Life and Death in a Venetian Convent 26). AS a dutiful daughter she did as sh...

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

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

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

are sticky and crusted, open sores, and other elements that suggest a physical representation of a dream. This makes the dream som...

composing sonnets was considered a necessary endeavor when courting someone (Goldenberg). For example, a man of any position would...

making Europe, and especially Italy a dominant force in the world. This was accomplished in both the realm of politics and religio...

Roman feel to Michelangelos "Creation of Adam" that almost speaks of ancient Roman statues. In Medieval times such a piece of art ...

structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...