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'Ovid's Banquet of Sence' by George Chapman

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

Johannes Kepler and His Contribution to Astrology

advantage of an education and as such was able to afford himself a level of intellectual snobbery, but this is more that snobbery,...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

Sixteenth Century Art Marketing

sort of introduction. While an artist could paint portraits, murals or landscapes, or sculpt busts, figures or funeral statuary, t...

China v. Western Europe Expansionism

to the brink of a new world direction. Interestingly, however, that direction would end abruptly as the leadership of China fell ...

Japanese Graphic Artist Yoshitaka Amano

as G-Force and Battle of the Planets), Hutch the Honeybee, and Cashaan: Robot Hunter" (Amanosworld.com). After fifteen years of...

Conversion of St. Paul by Caravaggio

In a paper consisting of twenty pages this painting is examined particularly in terms of the artist's use of shadow and light as w...

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 ...

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...

Herakles Presentation by Playwrights and Artists

very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...

Spanish Art and Artists

(SpanishArts, 2006). In Baroque paintings there was more depth, more shadowing, and perhaps more of a sense of realism in comparis...

Development by Eras

Child development theories did not really come to fore until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fact, the word ‘childhood’...

Sociological Analysis of El Salvador's El Mozote Massacre

In twelve pages this paper applies theories by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx to this El Salvador massacre. There are m...

'Glouster Harbor' by 19th Century Artist Childe Hassam

In five pages this research paper considers the concept of Impressionism as expressed in 'Glouster Harber' by Childe Hassam, Ameri...

20th Century Modern Artists

it can be said, changed to reflect this. Edouard Manet painted some of the most widely admired, critically discovered, and rever...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

The Impact of World War I on Australian Art and Artists

to the gracious host to the worldwide event known as the 2000 Summer Olypmics. Art, Wartime and the land "Down Under"...

Twentieth Century Art and Primitivism

What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...

Cimabue

that he was born to a noble family and that he obtained his early art education from Greeks who had settled in Florence, but that ...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

Pleasure and 19th Century Women in the Paintings of Mary Cassatt

In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...

17th Century Dutch Painter Vermeer

View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...

'Medici Cycle' of Peter Paul Rubens

of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...

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 ...

Humanistic Renaissance Artist Giotto di Bondone

In five pages this research paper concentrates on the St. Francis frescoes of Giotto di Bondone, an important artist of the 14th c...

Charlemagne's Gospel Book, Lindisfarne Gospels, and St. Matthew Illustrations

In five pages this report considers how eight and ninth century artists presented Saint Matthew in these texts in a consideration ...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

Influence of 19th Century Japonisme on French Art

of any type of outstanding art, be it painting, sculpture or any other form, is the ability to hold the viewers gaze, to cause the...