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a woman did have talent and want to compose, Brown tells us her only choice was to enter a convent, where she would "receive the p...

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

can be termed neither solely positive or solely negative in regard to its influence on culture and people. There would be tremend...

In a paper consisting of six pages Chicago back in the 1930s is considered through such topics as Al Capone and gangsters, corrupt...

In three pages this paper examines how art and philosophy were integrated during the Renaissance. Two sources are cited in the bi...

time of specific change. Morris (1997), for example, observes even subtle changes in the dress of the Pope between the Renaissanc...

making Europe, and especially Italy a dominant force in the world. This was accomplished in both the realm of politics and religio...

Roman feel to Michelangelos "Creation of Adam" that almost speaks of ancient Roman statues. In Medieval times such a piece of art ...

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

looking serene and majestic, and calling the Virgin to him (Kren and Marx). The "soaring movement" of the Virgin in this depicti...

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

composing sonnets was considered a necessary endeavor when courting someone (Goldenberg). For example, a man of any position would...

In four pages this paper considers spirituality during early Christian, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation, and in the contempo...

In the story one can see the unique style, and the power of his art that would forever serve to influence relief sculpture of the ...

for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...

Madonna is another version of the Madonna/Child pairing, but this time Christ is an infant. The relief, which is 74.5 x 69.5 centi...

clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...

Hurston and Langston Hughes. Hurston was a novelist probably best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, a tale of a confident bl...

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

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

received by his Florentine father (Craven 83-84). From the earliest age, young Leonardo exhibited what appeared to be an endless ...

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

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

spirit, in which desires intrinsic to human nature, generally repressed under medieval feudalism, burst forth with new fervor and ...

also equated with humanism, a movement that put man at the center of the universe, as opposed to God (Honderich 375). While the hu...

In four pages this paper discusses the paintings of Rogier van der Weyden, Pietr Brueghel the Elder, and Jan van Eyck in terms of ...

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

In a paper that consists of six pages the writer asserts that photography captures the same depth in the age of technological real...

This paper consists of five pages and examines what happened in countries other than Europe during the period known as the Renaiss...