...The Palace of Versailles is a complex and beautiful royal château that has lived throughout history as one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture since its construction was first begun in the year 1624. From 1682, when the palace was completely built, to the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, the Palace of Versailles housed over 3,000 people, including the king and the entire French Royal Court. The Palace of Versailles stood as a symbol of dictatorial power and degradation. More buildings than just the royal palace were placed on the grounds as well; there were five chapels, the Grand Trianon (built during 1687 - 1688), the Pavilion Francais (built in 1747), the Petit Trianon (built during 1762 - 1768), and, though not buildings,...
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...significant consequences; one of which was the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty was a peace settlement signed after World War 1 which came to an end in 1918. The treaty was formed in order to punish Germany for all damages she had supposedly caused in World War 1. The treaty was signed at the Versailles Palace near Paris, between Germany and the Allies. The three most important politicians were there; David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson. The treaty of Versailles was a peace settlement between Germany and the Allies after World War 1. The many countries that defeated Germany in World War 1 blamed Germany for causing the war and initiating severe damages.The treaty took away and placed control...
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...Rococo Art This paper defines and illustrates the Rococo movement. Rococo art was a highly sensual, light hearted movement and the art of this period greatly reflected a common way of thinking during this time. Art History II Rococo, meaning literally embedded pebble started in France at the beginning of the 18th Century, gaining popularity during the reign of Louis XV. (Rococo 1700 - 1775) Art from the Rococo movement was a reaction to the darker, heavier Baroque movement. The death of Louis the XIV brought about big changes to art and the patronage of art and the Rococo movement was one of these changes. (Kleiner, Fred S., and Helen Gardner) The start of the Rococo movement can be credited primarily to the death of Louis XIV. Upon the abandonment of Versailles by the French Nobility, they moved into Paris, and wanted to move away from the solemn Baroque style of the Palace of Versailles. So when the French court moved back into Paris, they redecorated their homes using the delicate forms and colors which would later be known as Rococo (A Brief History of Rococo Art). The Rococo movement started with interior design but soon made its way into other areas of art as well. (Rococo style | design) Rococo art, especially in architecture and interior design features natural elements such as shells, floral or leaf patterns ("Rococo Style," ). The art and architecture of this movement used highly organic forms (Style Guide: Rococo). An important and notable example of...
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...I still could not wrap my head around the fact I was going back to France, which I had wanted to do from the minute I stepped of the flight back home, but knowing how the books usually went, I would not be in the squalor of it all but at the palace of Versailles! I hoped with this experience under my belt I could pull of a paper on par with the report from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The room suddenly ceased to revolve and I stood up. I walked slowly to the door, hearing what sounded like a party on the other side. I knew my jeans and tee shirt would be far out of place, so I rummaged my closet and found some baggy khakis, high socks, and a loose shirt and made the most convincing imitation of high French aristocracy I could muster, then went out. When I was in France in the year 2014, It was hard to understand anything going on but I could pick stuff up on occasion. 1770 france was a whole nother ball game. I instantly upon hearing the rapid-fire French of some official was quite reluctant to even speak. But...
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...As such, the primary goals of their uprising were not achieved instantly. It took a long time and years of debate and reforms to reach the current state. However, this is not to say that nothing was accomplished. One of the most phenomenal success is the Women's March on Versailles. It all began with the market women protesting against the increased price of commodities. Encouraged by other revolutionary agitators, more and more people joined this crowd and marched through a violent confrontation to the Palace pressing their grievances to King Louis XVI. Ultimately, after a successful presentation, the King was compelled to heed to the outcry hence marking significant changes regarding power and reforms that created an equilibrium which favored the ordinary people. The March on Versailles became the defining moment of the French Revolution, as it represented a cause held firmly by the women. However, the women did not attain a right to vote during the revolution. Even still, they kept on participating and involving themselves actively in governing. The persistence they portrayed proved to be the pedestal for the feminist generation that...
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...Marriage and Commercialism News ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form * ------------------------------------------------- Home * ------------------------------------------------- News * ------------------------------------------------- Features * ------------------------------------------------- Network * ------------------------------------------------- Events * ------------------------------------------------- Education * ------------------------------------------------- Cities * ------------------------------------------------- Job Board * ------------------------------------------------- Life * ------------------------------------------------- Awards * ------------------------------------------------- More * ------------------------------------------------- General | Technology | Enterprise | Startups | Finance | Business | Career | Movie reviews | Life | US Indian | Gadgets Most Popular ( 1-4 of 16 ) Indian American Tribute to Rajesh Khanna 10 Tips for Newly Salaried Professionals Brand-New Dual Core Smartphones in India Celebrity Wives And Their Businesses Marriages fit for kings - for Sahara tycoon's sons Monday, 09 February 2004, 12:30 IST inShare | | Print | | Email | Lucknow, Over 10,000 guests, an orchestra from London and an award-winning filmmaker as videographer are some of the dazzling highlights of...
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...Maloney, Robin 000301434 Literature, Arts, and The Humanities: Analysis and Interpretation IWT1: Task 1 Introduction: During my lifespan I have been very fortunate to visit many countries such as Greece, Ireland, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Amsterdam, and England. The architecture of these countries always intrigued me with the ornate, and matter of detail, unlike what we have seen in this country. Therefore, in this paper I will compare and contrast the Renaissance and Baroque period's architecture for those periods. Task A1: The Renaissance period generally covered 200 years from 1400-1600 and followed the Gothic period. The meaning of the Renaissance was “rebirth”. Two components comprised this time; (1) an interest in humanism and assertion of the individual and (2) the revival of classical forms originally from the ancient Greeks and Romans. (Renaissance Art and Architecture, 2000). Many feel that the Renaissance period started in Italy as it was a great location between Western Europe and the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italian cities became the important trade and commercial centers. The Rhine, Danube and Rhone Riverways were valuable routes to transport goods. Cities grew and prospered during this period and the rulers or government learned how to tax people. Removing religion from politics was also a major change during the early Renaissance Period. The new humanists felt that humans should have control over events. They also supported causes...
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...2/15/12 Sponenberg Unit Paper #1 One of the many goals of producing a work of art is to generate a response from the ideal audience. Sometimes certain artworks are even based off of history or historical events to stimulate further response. Or they are simply created for the artist’s own desires. Thereby it is art’s responsibility to reality to portray history in an unbiased manner as best as possible. Displaying forms of art that are not truthful toward history or reality can distort one’s belief of a person or an event if the intended audience knows nothing more about the person or the event then what was shown in that particular art form. By not following this, certain events/people are going to be remembered for inaccurate reasons. Surprisingly, not everyone would agree with this idea. There are definitely those who believe that the real world and the...
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...Defining the Humanities Michael Hunt HUM/100 July 27, 2015 Frank Varisco Defining Humanities To numerous individuals, characterizing the word humankind is distinctive Humanities that are places or regions, individuals, times in a man's past, that helps that individual distinguish and make subsequent to of the world. The purpose of composing this paper is to depict humanities and give edification on how humanities contrast from different types of human expression, and in addition portraying a social occasion that was experienced or encountered, and how that social occasion indicated pertinence to humanities, style, craftsmanship, virtuoso, and society of the time period that it speaks to. Characterizing Humanities Humanities covers expansive period that gives samples on how the world, over the course history decided to express, comprehend, and adjusted to central focuses encompassing human life. Humanities likewise enters in on various commitments that people provided for society in the improvement of the numerous types of workmanship. Controls of the humanities, for example, reasoning, history, and abstract studies offer models and routines for tending to situations and recognizing vagueness. They can help us confront the strain between the concerns of people and those of gatherings and advance common and educated exchange of contentions, while exerting current issues in authentic point of view. They likewise offer voice to feeling and creative shape to experience...
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...The King’s Speech By Michael Stevens March 31, 2011 History 1112-602 “The King’s Speech” addresses a very important moment in time during which the British are declaring war against Germany. The British had been severely hurt by World War I, and were doing their best to stay out of war. George V is currently the King but he is getting older and closer to death. In my paper I will go through the history leading up to “The King’s Speech,” then review and discuss the content of the movie and what was left out of the movie. World War I and the Great Depression had depressed the British society and economy. The generation that had suffered was now in power and was willing to do anything to stay out of war. Hitler came to power in 1933 and rapidly tried to restore the German economy and military. The Treaty of Versailles had placed restrictions on the strength of the German military, and demilitarized certain German areas like Rhineland to create a buffer zone between France and Germany. Hitler defied the treaty and started building up his military. He then moved his army into Rhineland. This also broke the treaty, but the treaty was not enforced.1 At this point some felt that Hitler was a reasonable leader with limited goals, and that Germany had been dealt with too harshly and deserved treaty revisions. So Hitler used this as an opportunity to build up his army and annex other countries. First was Austria, then Sudetenland, which was part of Czechoslovakia...
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...physical world through the laws of motion. Descartes discovered the “cogito ergo sum” that said that our thoughts are separate from the word from god. He believed that the mind and spiritual being is part of the body, and that therefore God is separate from your physical being. “But the stark rejection of any authority except the mind, with all certainty built up from the new cogito, was revolutionary.”[Page 19]. This point of view was a crucial aspect of the Enlightenment philosophy. Descartes also said that in our religion we have an idea of God, that we have placed our own thoughts on the image of God. What were the main ideas that Spinoza developed? Spinoza saw religion as an obstruction to enlightenment and the bible as unnecessary “paper and ink” that was causing Christian’s to “worship likenesses and images”. He also saw God as identical with nature; he could not act with free will but only according to the laws of nature. Spinoza differentiated minds from bodies, but believed that like God was “inside nature” and followed the consistent laws of nature. “Enlightenment was the key—the use of reason to fulfill the injunction that Descartes had planted as the root for modern thought: Know thyself.” [Page 26]. Like Hobbes and Descartes, Spinoza believed in the use of reason for self-understanding. He also believed in reason’s ability to understand all things in nature as well as one’s relationship with God. Spinoza believed that a coercive rule could not be upheld and that the...
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...past empress Wu Hou had to go through into her life in order to succeed, was very outstanding. Cixi defied all the possible gossip inside of the court, the detractors she had and she rose as Empress of China in 1835, with many years to come, her eventful journey was just starting. During her years inside the forbidden city as an empress, it is said by different sources that Cixi had a hard time getting accustomed to it. Now that power had landed in her hands, many people were trying to take her power away, rumors were created around her name and her origins, as well as whether the new emperor was really the former emperor’s son and not from an Enuch. All this was logical behavior of the court, we have seen it everywhere even in the Versailles palace court. Cixi was a woman in a place full of men, specially in the high political positions, resulting in a very hard environment for a woman that is trying to be heard and obeyed all the time. This is another reason why, Cixi’s description could lower down the critiques; most of the times women have to shift their behavior or even their demeanors in order to be respected and admired, and that is one of the challenges and defensive statements to treat Cixi’s image through a socio-cultural lens analyzing the biases of every historian narration. For example, Laikwan Pang (2005) talks about how female leadership in the case of Cixi was perceived in those times: “While the masculine power Cixi held was intrinsic and unquestionable, she...
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...French Revolution From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see French Revolution (disambiguation). Page semi-protected French Revolution Anonymous - Prise de la Bastille.jpg Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789. Date 1789–1799 Location France Participants French society Outcome Abolition of the French monarchy Establishment of a secular and democratic republic that became increasingly authoritarian and militaristic Radical social change based on liberalism and other Enlightenment principles Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte Armed conflicts with other European countries Part of a series on the History of France National EmblemNational EmblemNational Emblem Prehistory[show] Ancient[show] Early Middle Ages[show] Middle Ages[show] Early modern[show] 19th century[show] 20th century[show] Portal icon France portal v t e The French Revolution (French: Révolution française) was an influential period of social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, the Revolution profoundly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of theocracies and absolute monarchies while replacing them with republics and democracies. Through the Revolutionary Wars, it unleashed a wave of global conflicts that extended from the Caribbean to the Middle East. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in human history.[1] The causes of the French Revolution...
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...All about My Travels through the Egyptian Civilization, Early Japanese Civilization, and the Early 20th Century Deana Mole January, 24, 2014 Hum/205 Mr. Longstreth If you could learn about any three cultures, what would they be? This question was asked of me at one point in my career as an art historian and author. I have written a new textbook about the three periods I most enjoyed investigating and learning about. In this book, I hope to give you information on them and encourage you to dig even deeper to learn more about them. The three periods I have chosen for this book are; Egyptian Civilization, Early Japanese Civilization, and Early 20th Century. These are all very different but as you will see as you read the book that even though they are different they have similarities. All about My Travels through the Egyptian Civilization, Early Japanese Civilization, and the Early 20th Century Chapter 1 Egyptian civilization developed around 5000 B.C.E. During this time, Egypt was divided into two sections, Lower and Upper. Lower Egypt was actually a narrow strip of land located on either side of the Nile River. It ran for 700 miles from the first waterfall in the south to the Nile Delta. (Benton, J. R. & DiYanni, R., 2012, p. 17) Lower Egypt was in the northern part and was on the fertile land of the...
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...French Revolution Key Figures Biographies | Eden Salmon | Xmas Holiday Homework | Robespierre Maximilien de Robespierre principal figures in the French Revolution. Born on the 6th May 1758 in Arras France he had a troubled childhood with his Mother dying when he was aged just 6 and his Dad leaving soon after that. He and his siblings were raised by their grandparents. Young Maximilien was educated in Paris, graduating from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and earning a law degree in 1781. He became a lawyer in his home town and lived comfortably with a moderate income. Robespierre then took on a public role, calling for political change in the French monarchy. He became a great follower of social philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, intrigued by the idea of a virtuous man who stands alone accompanied only by his conscience. He was very influenced by the enlightenment and wanted equality and freedom by a means of intellectual debate and practical demonstration. He gained a reputation for defending the poorest of society and earned the nickname "the incorruptible" for his adherence to strict moral values. At age 30, Robespierre was elected to the Estates General of the French legislature. He became increasingly popular with the people for his attacks on the French monarchy and his advocacy for democratic reforms. He also opposed the death penalty and slavery. He was very much a liberal thinker and spread (with the enlightenment) liberal views across France, particularly the third...
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