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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,...

Jesus and Socrates

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

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...

Painting and the Invention of Photography

their work. Delacroix was known for aiming at capturing the "essence" of what he viewed rather then presenting his subject in trul...

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...

The Bridge at Argenteuil and The Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet

We see the moist and secretive environment and truly gain a feel for the garden and the water which abounds in the painting. It is...

The Boating Party Painting by Mary Cassatt

the opinion that Cassatt possessed "infinite talent" (Whitcomb 48). In 1893, Cassatt painted a work that signified that she had ...

Pablo Picasso and Francisco Goya

of Madrid). Another author notes that, "Goyas sensitivity to these events resulted in his best print series and furthermore in a m...

Woman Holding a Balance Painting by Jan Vermeer

to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...

Magdalen with the Smoking Flame by Georges de la Tour

second of course has the flame smoking and Mary just beginning to show the signs of pregnancy. The third has Mary obviously pregna...

Raphael's Madonna and Child Enthroned

all of the figures included, with the exception of the two children. There is a little boy sitting on the Madonnas lap and another...

Art Critique: Reaction

himself, on a pedestal that is covered in fabric. The photo is a profile of the man and his entire body, save for a small portio...

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...

Impressionism/Music & Art

characterizes both the music and the art of the impressionist movement. As a term, "impressionism" derives from a painting by Cl...

Dan Brown and "The Madonna of the Rocks"

This 3 page paper discusses the painting "The Madonna of the Rocks" that hangs in the Louvre with regard to the hand gestures of M...

Madonna and Child by Fra Fillipo Lippi

possessed a style "on which his great pupil Botticelli informed himself" (Olgas Gallery, 2007). At the time of painting Madonna an...

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...

'Dance' Master Henri Matisse

Any artist may be intrigued by a subject and ask the proverbial - "what if" concerning that subject or idea. Then the question m...

Huck Finn vs. Antonia

William Cather in My Antonia and Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn dealt with complex social issues by painting the...

Man and Art of Vincent Van Gogh

paintings and drawings at a miraculous rate. He started suffering bouts of disorientation and called it insanity. He moved north t...

The Land of the Lotus Eaters Painting by Robert S. Duncanson

In six pages this painting by 19th century African American artist Robert S. Duncanson is analyzed with the emphasis being on its ...

Wilde's Dorian Gray and Art

In a paper consisting of 3 pages the relationship between life and art as reflected in the novel is considered in terms of the onl...

Baroque Artists and Illusionist Ceiling Paintings

In seven pages this report examines such Baroque artists as Pozzo and Carracci in a consideration of the illusions presented in th...

Edgar Degas' Painting The Glass of Absinthe

Edgar Degas' The Glass of Absinthe painting is analyzed in five pages with the time depiction a primary focus. Four sources are c...

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes 16th Century Painting by Tintoretto

In 7 pages this paper discusses the Mannerist techniques featured in Tintoretto's 16th century painting The Miracle of the Loaves ...

Paul Cezanne's Paintings

In seven pages this paper examines artist Paul Cezanne's life and paintings. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Civil War Art and Folk Music

In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...

Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' and A Child's Perspective of the World

In 6 pages the child's worldly perspective is illustrated through Rochester's interest in one of Jane's paintings, her distant fut...

Visual Paintings of Marc Chagall

obtain a permit as a sign painter. His first patron, Goldberg, took him into his house supposedly as a servant, thus allowing hi...