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Art for the Sake of Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

of community theaters and high-school drama clubs). On the complete opposite end of the spectrum from his drawing-room comedies, h...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

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...

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

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...

Cimabue and Duccio or 'Madonna Enthroned' Times Two

in society Introduction One way that art history has been studied is to trace the development of the realistic portrayal of the h...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

2 Perspectives on Italian Renaissance Humanism

In six pages this paper presents the argument that an adequate overview of the humanism of the Italian Renaissance can be achieved...

Renaissance Themes

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

Annotated Bibliography on the Harlem Renaissance

anger that lead to one of the most fertile periods in American history. I have chosen to approach the Harlem Renaissance through ...

Renaissance Challenges Responded to by Calvinism and Lutheranism

by choice but are instead dictated by an omnipotent source, the inherent faith and ability to think creatively of ones beliefs is ...

The Harlem Renaissance

many perhaps who were disgruntled with the lack of freedom and the disrespect and oppression. They faced such realities in light o...

Renaissance Architecture

This research paper describes aspects of Renaissance architecture. Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and Modernism

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

Time Capsule: Renaissance & The Age Of Baroque

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

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

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

Technical Analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

In five pages this paper analyzes the artist's techniques in the creation of this Italian Renaissance work of art with the subject...

Art and Europe's Christianity Rise

of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...

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, ...

Tempestuous Paintings of Caravaggio

than painting. The jealous man heaped insults on Lena. Upon hearing of this, Caravaggio hit the young lawyer with a powerful blow ...

Life and Times of Michelangelo Buonarroti

In fifteen pages this paper examines how Michelangelo represented the Renaissance times in which he lived and that his art and arc...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Judaism During the Renaissance

In five pages this examines the Renaissance period with the focus being upon Judaism's art and culture with the faith and treatmen...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and 20th Century

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares the concepts of science, philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and understand...

Rubens and Botticelli

In six pages the Renaissance paintings of Botticelli are compared with the Baroque art of Rubens in a comparison of style characte...

Comparison Between Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo

follows "A good painter must paint two things above all others the person and the intent of that persons soul" (qtd. in North 16)....

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Aspects of Modern and Postmodern Art

from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...