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Overview of 6 Roman Portraits

antipathy towards the Romans (2004). It has also been suggested that portraits in the Roman Empire at the time were more a reflect...

Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

Max Beckmann's Self Portrait with Horn

This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

African Mask Controversy and Gertrude Stein

(Danto 19). Danto supports his argument with the fact that this is the natural progression out of Picassos Blue Period, which embo...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

A Comparison of "Middlemarch" and "Jude the Obscure"

Free will, on the other hand, speaks to the concept of having full authority over ones aspirations and ultimate direction, reflect...

Comparing the Self-Portraits of Female Artists Kathe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, and Paula Modersohn-Becker

been wrinkled by the hands of time. Rather than being strictly a portrait of age, however, Kollwitzs 1934 self portrait is also a...

Charles, Lord Western, and Shirley Western Portrait by John Singleton Copley

and represents his coming of age as a painter, with the Anglo influence evident in the works "polish and refinement" (Parker, 1938...

Images in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo

challenge to remain sexually faithful to his wife. These tremendous setbacks, including the reality of being bisexual in a patria...

Medieval and Renaissance Artistic Depictions of Women

womanly figure that offered men a very subdued connection to women. The fact that this connection with women was incredibly subdue...

1887 Self Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh

in the 1886 Impressionist exhibition. In the Art Institutes Self Portrait, the sharp, direct gaze of the artist, whose eyes practi...

2 Paintings by Gustav Klimt

synthesizes all of his diverse talents and multiple influences and results in an image that is completely unique in terms of its e...

Viewing US History Differently

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough

as a foundation member; in 1774, he relocated for good to London where he expounded upon techniques he learned while at Bath, whic...

Character Sketch of Iago in Othello by William Shakespeare

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

International Theme in the Works of Henry James

money had been recently made, but that it had been made through work and not inheritance. Similarly, American culture (art, litera...

Artists and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In six pages this report examines the evolution of the artist as revealed in the characterization of Stephen Daedalus in A Portrai...

Life and Achievements of Photographer Bruce Weber

opened doors for the gay community in terms of securing truly complimentary photography of men. Webers experience in homoerotic ...

Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

Poe's Obsession with Beautiful Young Women Dying and the Influence of His Wife's Premature Death

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

James Joyce's Writings, Place and Time

In ten pages this paper discusses the importance of Ireland, community, family, and certain time periods in James Joyce's 'Araby,'...

Personal Account of the Black Death

In five pages this paper represents an historically true personal portrait of the effects of London's bubonic plague epidemic. Tw...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

the numerically fine groups that compose the American elite (p. 363). The very "top of modern society" is frequently inaccessible,...

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...

James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence Compared

In five pages a comparison is made between A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawr...

Society and Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

In five pages this paper discusses the social portrait sketched by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations in a consideration of Pip...

Artist's Role According to Martha Graham and James Joyce

In three pages Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is featured in this comparative analysis of Joyce's and Graham's perceptions ...

Portrait Changes in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In 3 pages this paper examines what is meant by the changes to the portrait of Dorian Gray in an analysis of this novel by Oscar W...