FNAR 201 Renaissance through Modern SPRING 2013 STUDY GUIDE EXAM I EXAM I STUDY GUIDE Friday 15 February 2013 For this exam, you will be required to identify images and discuss their artistic and social significance and symbolism. You will have ten slides on the exam and five minutes per slide. Each question will be worth ten points. By identifying a slide, I am asking that you provide the artist, title, date and period. If the artist is unknown, you must note that on your exam by stating
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Leonardo Da Vinci made contributions to the study of science, medicine and art. In his relentless pursuit to understand how our world works, he was one of the world's greatest inventors, thinkers, scientists, artists and writers. A true Renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci was a leading voice for reason, logic and science in a world dominated by superstition. Leonardo’s parents were the Florentine notary and landlord Ser Pedro and Caterina, a young peasant woman who soon after Leonardo's birth married
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CONNECTION TO THE CONTENT OF THE PAINTING **Elements - for studying of Art History BASIC ART TERMS Medium - physical means through which we come in contact with the work of art Technique - the way the artist uses the materials and medium in expressing an idea, feeling or sensation Elements - properties or qualities of the medium Subject Matter - the recognizable objects, persons, or incident represented in a work of art Organization - the purposeful relation of parts to each other and to
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Ivan Mote January/19/2011 AP English Language Mrs. Ray On the 19th day of January, Ivan Mote challenges the claim that the vulgarity of music is should not cause conflict. Ivan believes that music being portray as only offensive and inappropriate is a false statement. Why Should America Not Oppose Vulgar Music The problem with vulgar music is that it is offensive. To those that are not subjected to this extreme syntax would only view it as disrespectful, derogatory, and degrading
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Machiavelli Born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli was a diplomat for 14 years in Italy's Florentine Republic during the Medici family's exile. When the Medici family came back to power in 1512, Machiavelli was dismissed and briefly imprisoned. Machiavelli as an individual has been described as aloof, as standing to one side of life ‘with a sarcastic expression continually playing around his mouth and winking from his eyes’. This report is based on Machiavelli’s most famous
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there must be truth and reason. Artists hiding behind paper and art only kept the truth hidden. In the 1920’s Art and Literature revolutionized American Society by turning away from the traditional ways and exposing the reality of American life. Art that was being published in the twenties was a representation of a new and wide variety of the movements, forms and points of view. This decade was one that “produced many great works of art, music [and] literature” (Mintz). In the early twenties American
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Baroque Period Nathan Hale American Intercontinental University Abstract The author of this paper examines three works of art from three different artists from the Baroque Period. He compares the different works of art and discusses similarities, differences, and the techniques that were used. The Baroque period ran from 1600 to 1770, Artist of that time used different techniques that were used during the renaissance period to bring
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Baroque Period HUMA205-1201B-08: Art Appreciation AIU Online Colin Batson Sir Anthony Van Dyck is the first artist that I have chosen to write about. Sir Van Dyck was known for doing portraits for such people like the Genoese aristocracy, and helped to usher in the immortal type of noblemen, with the portraits of the men as proud and slender in frame. One of his well known portraits is his “Portrait of a Young General.” This portrait was created between the years of 1622 and 1627
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THE HISTORY OF MUSIC The Middle Ages 450-1450 Characteristics of Music Music comes from the Ancient Greek muses, who were the nine goddesses of art and science. Music actually began around 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimented with acoustics and how math related to tones formed from plucking strings. The main form of music during the Middle Ages was the Gregorian chant, named for Pope Gregory I. This music was used in the Catholic Churches to enhance the services. It consisted
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History 103g Did Women Have An Early Modern Europe During the emergence of the Early Modern Europe, nations were known to have developed both intellectually and culturally. Movements such as the Renaissance, Reformation, religious wars, scientific revolution, industrialization, Enlightenment, and French Revolution had brought about the nations’ development in terms of thoughts, expressions, and societal and political issues that characterized the Early Modern Europe. New knowledge was increasingly
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