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American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Literature of the Renaissance and the Works of Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, and John Milton

social context, with various issues raised and moral judgments questioned by the readers and listeners (Aughterson 274). In Engla...

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 ...

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...

Bernini, Michelangelo, and Donatello's Artistic Representations of David

order to provide more accurate representation of the human body. The advances in knowledge made during these years is evide...

Business Practices in Early History

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

Patrons and Renaissance Art

In five pages this paper discusses Renaissance art in a consideration of the patron's role as an artistic benefactor and influence...

Claude McKay and Harlem Renaissance

In ten pages the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s is examined in a consideration of how Claude McKay's writings embodied the spirit...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Mongol Occupation and the Cultural Advancement of Russia

In five pages this paper discusses the cultural advances in Russia during the Mongol occupation of the Renaissance period. Five s...

The Life and Works of Lorenzo de Medici

This paper focuses on the artistic accomplishments and life of Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence during the Renaissance period....

Botticelli's Birth of the Virgin and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles

In five pages this paper examines how these Renaissance and twentieth century paintings reflect social attitudes and scientific pr...

Gothic Cathedrals of 1100 to 1500 A.D.

a major representative example and therefore more widely reviewed. Following subsections discuss the changes in cathedral constru...

Harlem Renaissance and White Literary Movements

This was not necessarily the case, but the self-assertion required for such a huge segment of a population to pick up and move cha...

Scientific Revolution and How It Evolved

place (Meeks PG). With the advent of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe people wer...

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...

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...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Sport of the Gods by Paul Dunbar and Symbolism

In five pages this Harlem Renaissance period text is analyzed in terms of symbolism particularly in the title. There are no other...

Renaissance and Humanistic Art

intellectualism" of the medieval universities began to give way before the warmth of "Franciscan emotionalism" (Fleming 162). This...

High Renaissance Artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities in the works of Rubens and his apprentice Van Dyck during the High Renaissance...

Non European 'Renaissance'

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

Filippo Brunelleschi's Renaissance And Baroque Architecture

architecture as though one were looking through a framed window. With each subsequent step in the process of establishing linear ...

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...

Renaissance and the Art of Venice

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

Western Civilization Historical Periods

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

Renaissance Art and Philosophy Integration

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

Love Songs of the Renaissance

that were performed with four to six singers, comprising a group of individuals making different sounds and imitations. "A madriga...

The Renaissance and Female Composers

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...

Harlem Renaissance

on the east and Convent Avenue on the west" ("Songs of the soul" SR1). During the 1920s, a "star-studded group of poet, writer, mu...