I am standing front of one of the most expensive paintings in the world, Irises by the extraordinary artist Vincent van Gogh. According to the New York Time, this painting was sold in 1987 with $53.9 million, and it is now owned by the Getty Museum. I ask the Getty’s guide, “how much is it worth now?” She refuses to reply, and say it is "priceless". That is one of the wisest ways to answer this kind of question by Getty’s staffs. Ever since, Getty has always kept secret the price of the collection
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Gio Ponti was one of the most influential and highly commended designers of the twentieth century. He worked in many design fields throughout his life, pursuing architecture, industrial design and furniture design. Ponti was born in Milan in 1891. His studies to become an architect were interrupted by the start of World War One, when he had to serve in the Italian army. After the war he completed his degree in architecture and then became art director of the ceramics manufacturer, Richard-Ginori
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Similarly to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera before meeting, Jeanne-Claude and Christo had a very different relationship to the arts to one another. The pair, known as Jeanne-Claude and Christo, are renowned for their ‘wrapping works’: gigantic outdoor installations which consists in temporarily wrapping entire monuments in cloth around the world (. Christo had been drawn to spacial design ever since he started aged twelve putting on plays to amuse his parents and their friends. During those plays
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Identifying an unknown work of art is no easy task. It requires various detail oriented exercises ranging from performing a visual analysis, understanding historical context, and much more. For this essay, we were given four unknown works of art and were asked to identify one of them. The work identified was a painting of an eagle devouring Prometheus’ liver in Northern Italy in the early seventeenth century. The painting of Prometheus being tortured by an eagle was most likely done in Northern Italy
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Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1546-1599) was born Bologna, Italy during the sixteenth century, he was a surgeon of the Renaissance Era. He was the surgeon of choice of many soldiers at his time. He’s operations usually involves in rehabilitating the nose (Rhinoplasty). He’s not the one who pioneered this in fact he even said that the credit should be given to other surgeon or anatomist before his time. He allows Benedict Alexander and Vesalius to get the credits on this practice for what he believes that
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In the excerpt from Prince, Machiavelli depicts two types of leaders: those who are loved and those who are feared. Machiavelli states that it is “ much safer to be feared than loved” but is that necessarily true? Many leaders throughout time that have been successful were liked by their people. When was the last time you associated being loved with war? Never but when was the last time you associated being feared with war? These obstreperous people under the feared leaders would rather not be constantly
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Palestrina. The Bishop at the St Agapito cathedral was elected as Pope Julius III and in 1551 asked Palestrina to take initiative of the Cappella Giulia, as well as train young musicians. He gained recognition and was moved to the Cappella Sistina (Pope’s personal choir). Unfortunately, he lost this position afer only three months due to the death of Julius III and overtaking of Marcellus II. After this tragedy he spent his life at various cathedrals in different positions; and then took over
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Renaissance men and women were those that excelled in many different fields. A wonderful example of a Renaissance man is Leonardo da Vinci. This essay will discuss why it is hard to find an example of a Renaissance man or woman in today's society. One of the main reasons that make it troublesome to find a true Renaissance man in today's society is that the study fields that Renaissance men studied between 1300 and 1600 were much more underdeveloped than they are today. Today, if a person wanted
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Ginzburg introduces Domenico Scandella who is known as Menocchio, “ The remarkable Menocchio” which his neighbors addressed him by. He was a man who earned his living from many occupations, but mainly from being a miller. However, when asked by authorities he presented himself to be a lower class citizen who was quite poor and lived a negligible life, only serving to provide for his big family. However, that was quite opposite to how he lived his life. He held positions such as mayor for multiple
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Allegedly it is believed the first recorded pieces of nursing dates back during the Roman Empire, around 300 A.D. During this time it is stated that hospitals were built within every town within the Roman Empire. Both males and females were nurses but were more known to the people as hypourgoi. These hypougoi during this time assisted in in-patient medical care alongside doctors. The Romans created 2 fully developed hospitals within the great city of Constantinople. However, nursing became considerably
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