Art history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the academic discipline of art history. For an overview of the history of art worldwide, see History of art. For other uses, see Art history (disambiguation). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2011) Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre
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avoided if one wants to compete in the modern political scene. 2. ------------------------------------------------- John Milton's Paradise Lost is a Protestant epic. Dante's Divine Comedy was a Catholic epic. How do you think the faiths and periods of the two poets shape the differences between their works? Provide examples from these works to support your response. John Milton was well-known for his Protestant views on politics and religion. In Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost”, he took
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The concept of combining classical techniques with Christian themes during the renaissance was unique. The Catholic Church was not as powerful in Italy during the Renaissance because of the uprising of humanist beliefs. Art was still religious because most of the Italian population remained very religious through out the Renaissance period, however images in the Renaissance art "were meant to enhance the experience of the faithful"(Heilbrunn). Even though Italians remained religious, the church
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brought new philosophical and art ideas, which had an influence over people and their thoughts. As these new ideas started to spread among people all over the world, especially Europe, the old ideas started to get rejected, and people were left with unknown emotions
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is a Italian artist who came about during the Renaissance. He sculpted, painted, and created many influential forms of art during his time. Michelangelo was a great artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A lot of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. Although the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are probably the best known
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Describing and Analyzing a Work of Renaissance [Report Subtitle] Describing and Analyzing a Work of Renaissance [Report Subtitle] The picture that I chose was from Museum of Modern Art it’s a painting of Madonna and Child; Saint John the Baptist; Saint Jerome Sano di Pietro( Ansano di Pietrod, Mencio) ( Italian, Siena 1405-1481 Siena). This painting was one of many that I had looked at but for some reason it capture my attention and I just continued to focus on how well it stood out among
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they themselves believe and can often be the foundation of confusion. Modern humanism can vary from the renaissance humanism in many ways, because generations have changed and different problems arose through the time periods. Modern humanism depends on reason and human life itself, it rejects all sense of supernaturalism and has a dual origin. While renaissance humanism directly focuses on the arts, culture, and rhetorical traditions. In this generation the infatuation with humans and life itself describes
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The Harlem Renaissance was created in the early 1920’s when a large number of blacks started migrating to the north. It was also a period of time where African American authors, artists, poets, and musicians were giving new ideas on how to live a better life. People like Louis Armstrong , Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, W.E.B. Dubois, and Countee Cullen was apart of this movement because they wanted their voices to be heard and they also wanted to make a change for today’s society. They were the voice
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Angelico was known as Guido di, Pietro. In his existence, Fra Angelico was also called Fra Giovanni da Fiesole and Beato Angelico. On 17 October 1417, Fra joined a confraternity at the Carmine Church while still going by the name Guido di Pietro. At that period, he had started his work as a painter as seen in the records of the church of Santo Stefano del Ponte. In 1418 while still a young lad, he and his brother Benedetto took the vow to become Monks according to the order of Dominican Preachers. Consequently
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The Renaissance was the period of time when artists put significance on learning and understanding the natural world before drawing a picture or creating a sculpture. A painter wasn’t strictly a painter any longer; he was also a writer, mathematician and musician. A lot of time was devoted to observation and people watching, as trying to understand the world and society on deeper levels. Mathematical knowledge was used for creating more realistic pictures then previously. Researching the relationship
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