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The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman sitting with hands crossed and staring at the viewer with slight smile. The relaxed, three-quarter pose is different from the stiff, profile portraits that were the normal at this time. The woman sits very upright with her arms folded, which is also a sign of her…

The Chairman : This afternoon we are to hear Professor Cordingley, who occupies the Chair of Architecture at the Manchester University, talking to us on “Originality in Italian Renaissance Architecture”. Many of you know that the old system of training architects in England, that of pupilage, has been considerably superseded by the school system and…

Sophocles play Oedipus the King (also commonly known as Oedipus Rex and Oedipus Tyrannus) is a very famous tragedy about Oedipus, a mythical King. Sophocles, first produced the play in Athens around 430 B.C., we can tell this because of the reference to the Theban plague at the plays opening, at the Great Dionysia, a…

Grace GAO grace GAO is a freshman in the ditch film & TV program. Her film is titled: black & white. She was born in Beijing and attended high school in Irving, California. An accomplished pianist, grace collaborates with other student filmmakers to combine her literary, musical ideas into short films. She is also a…

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) exemplified the shift from the artisan to the learned artist creator. So writes the eminent Alberti scholar Cecil Grayson, and there are perhaps few who would disagree. But Grayson’s seemingly unremarkable assertion implies the acceptance of a single standard and content of learning, evidently in contrast to the knowledge accumulated by…

It has been said that Williams deliberately sets up a pattern of tensions and conflicts in the play, which culminate in the ending. Do you agree? In your answer you should include a detailed examination of scene eleven. I think that there is a pattern of conflict and tension within the story because there seems…

When I think of the Baroque period and what I can compare it to, I think of a teenager. A teenager is that that awkward between stage of a child and adult. Not yet fully developed and prone to drastic changes spontaneously. This is, what I believe, exactly how it was with the Baroque Era…

These two historical periods had many similarities, yet also differences in which made the historical periods very unique. The Renaissance period had many characteristics that were not common with any other historical period in history. Italian scholars and artists started re-examining the use of art and sculptures and were reawakened by the ideals of Roman…

When I first began comparing the two different statues of David, Bering’s Baroque “David, and “Michelangelo Renaissance “David” the first thing that came to my attention was the facial features. As you study the face of Michelangelo “David” there is a sense of calmness to it. There is little or no emotion depicted in his…

Comparisons of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods Western Governors University It was the 14th century and Europe was shrouded in creative and intellectual “darkness” as a result of corrupt and oppressive religion. People lived with the burden of twisted theological rules that permeated both business and personal lives. In a small town in Italy, a…