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Renaissance and Baroque

instrument and during the Renaissance period flutes and reed instruments were widely used. One author notes, "The basic reed instr...

Harlem Renaissance Artists and the Influence Exerted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...

Chris Matthews/Hardball

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

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

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

Dance Music in Musical History

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

Politics in the English Renaissance Plays

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

Brunelleschi and Early Renaissance Architecture

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

The Mona Lisa

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

Analytical Analysis of Renaissance Art

obtained the quality he called "grazia," which he used to describe a "kind of perfect divine beauty" (Witcombe). A work of art cam...

A Rethinking of the Value of Nuclear Power

The April 2011 Japanese Earthquakes and the resulting Fukushima...

Various Renaissance Periods

Introduction In world history there have been times of great growth and change, often referred to as renaissance periods. While m...

Christianity and Art's Role

In five pages this discussion of the connection between religion and art focuses upon Christianity and its influence upon art espe...

Renaissance and Contemporary Women's Roles

that there was truly no separation of the sexes throughout the renaissance, short of the obvious physical differences; rather, her...

Precedents to the Revolution in France

European Renaissance occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was a cultural movement with revelations in intellectual lif...

'Ardo e scoprir' Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

Pope and Nobleman Renaissance Art Distinctions

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Renaissance art in terms of the similarities and differences between noblemen and...

Forms of Art Technology During the Renaissance

In seven pages this paper examines the technology that was developed to create the Renaissance period's sophisticated maiolica cer...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

African American Literary Movements

as used in Sojourner Truths Aint I a Woman, becomes a persuasive technique which unites all women regardless of their color (also ...

Renaissance Era Poetry as 'a Speaking Picture' Body of Work

In ten pages this 'speaking picture' approach to poetry during the Renaissance focuses upon the English poetry of Francis Quarles....

Actors of the Italian Renaissance and Their Status

out) which represented, Hell. Around 1485, Italian rulers began to finance productions of Roman plays and imitations of them. Th...

'Americana and the American Renaissance' by Wallace Stevens

In 5 pages this 1950 poem serves as a reflection on the American literary Renaissance characterized by Walt Whitman and Ralph Wald...

Harlem Renaissance and Poet Langston Hughes

In seven pages the life of Langston Hughes and his poetic contributions to the Harlem Renaissance are examined. Five sources are ...

Botticelli, Humanism and Renaissance Art

for aesthetic as well a religious purposes, and expressed the mythological subjects favored by the humanists, who enjoyed their hi...

Disappointment of Jessica and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper discusses the disappointment of this father and daughter and Italian Renaissance society disillusionment i...

Life and Art of Michelangelo

In five pages this Italian Renaissance artist is examined in terms of his art including the Sistine Chapel, the Pieta, and David, ...

1968 Film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli

In three pages this paper examines the filmmaker's various cinematic techniques and include elements such as utilizing teenage act...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

Italy During the Renaissance Era and the Roles Played by Nonelites and Women

result, court mistresses commonly took on the role of both lover and confidant, creating a lineage through childbearing that suppo...