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Storms by Watteau and Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) are two very different paintings of storms. Watteaus painting shows country people busily harvesting ...

Analysis of "Christ's Descent into Hell"

Descent into Hell," painted in the style of Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands between 1550-1560 is oil on wood, 21 x 46 inches, ...

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanual Leutze

damaged state, the work won a gold medal in Berlin and was "much celebrated in Europe."9 It was part of the permanent collection o...

Renaissance Humanism and “The School of Athens”

being a "practical" discipline. It provides outstanding mental exercise, but its difficult to see how debates about the nature of ...

2 Dutch Masters, Leyden and Steen

earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...

Baroque Paintings

heroic exploits" (Irinas World). And, in this particular painting, which also holds an angel of sorts (actually a goddess) with a ...

A Painting

one can also understand that it was a place were many different peoples came together, and then disappeared: "From the twelfth to ...

"The Tiger's Bride" and "Beauty and the Beast" - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Tiger's Bride" and the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Thematic diff...

Princess Bride, Mise en Scene

This paper offers an overview of miss en scene elements used in "The Princess Bride." Three pages in length, three sources are cit...

Setting & Scenery in 5 Films

a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

Two Art Works Compared

a rather poor situation. One can pick out the bride when one looks carefully enough, but she is nothing like one would expect a br...

William Shakespeare's Othello and the 'Jewel' Desdemona

as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...

Literary Naturalism of Author Stephen Crane

of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage. In addition, he wrote a myriad of imposing poems, and ninety pieces of short fictio...

Burning Brides in India

In eight pages the extent to which patriarchy rules India is examined within the context of the shameful practice of burning bride...

MGM and Universal's Cinematic Styles

their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...

The Wedding Motif in the Poem 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Tennyson

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how Section 40 of the poem that features the bride analogy is enmeshed in the comp...

Cultural Attraciton of Non Asian Males to Asian Women

In ten pages the reasons why Asian women have appealed to non Asian men throughout history are considered in terms of cultural sub...

Edgar Allan Poe and Themes of Sexuality and Death

In ten pages this paper considers how Poe's fascination with morbidity may have been due to losing so many female relatives includ...

Patriarchy and William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper examines how the social patriarchy victimizes Othello and his bride Desdemona in an analysis of Othello b...

Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this paper examines the reaction of the reader to the Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott. There are no other s...

Racial Representations in Hollywood's Horror Movies

In twelve pages this paper discusses how racial representations are structured in Hollywood films in a consideration of The Shinin...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Tragic Flaw of Love

love of Othello for Desdemona, while it seemed to hold such optimistic promise in the beginning, was so excessive, it blinded him ...

Boccaccio's Decameron and Renaissance Era Business Practices

A paper discussing Renaissance era business practices in the Mediterranean region. The author draws from Giovanni Boccacio's Decam...

Human Potrayal in Art

In five pages the ways in which the human form has been artistically represented is considered in the forms, detail, and themes of...

Albert Camus' The Plague, Rats, and Fascism

In eight pages this paper comprised of 3 sections discusses how Camus' work is an indictment aganst fascist totalitarianism with t...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

Two Operatic Compositions of Wolfgang Mozart

and Don Giovanni. In 1786 with his opera The Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reached the peak of his success durin...

Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Mozart

tragic figure, yet the buffoonery of Leporello keeps the work as a whole within the tradition of the opera buffa. As the following...

Poetry, Literature, and Justice and Freedom Themes

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...