(21-6) 4. Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-98, tempera and oil on plaster (21-3) 5. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, C.1503-06, oil on panel. (21-5) 6. Raphael, The Small Cowper Madonna, c.1505, oil on panel, (21-7) 7. Raphael, The School of Athens, 1510-1511, fresco, (p. 642) Vocalbulary: • Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550; 1568) o biographical model o cyclical development of art • sfumato • disegno
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Aphrodite- the so-called Venus Genetrix While visiting the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, the piece of artwork that caught my eye was the Marble Statue of Aphrodite- the so-called Venus Genetrix. This particular statue interested me because in high school, I was assigned the role of Aphrodite in a skit. Ever since then, her mythological story interested me. Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. The sculpture that I picked seemed unique to me and different from the sculpture
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Gretchel M. Quinones HUMA 101 WORK SHOP 4 Essay Ricardo Serano Greek science and math the influence: Development of Science Long time ago, people lacked knowledge on why certain things happened. Without scientific answers, like we have today, the Ancient Greeks created their own answers about the world and an individual’s place in it. By doing the research for this essay I had learn a lot of the Greeks contribution in science and math methods. Science in Ancient Greece was based on logical
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The Golden Age Like a flower in bloom, fifth century Attica is said to be the prime time of ancient civilizations. Much praise is given to the period, and it is coined to be the Golden Age of ancient western history. It is claimed that the Athenians of this time period were very successful in many areas, being “originators of democracy…art, history, philosophy, and science.” (Discovering 54) Comparatively I support the claim for Attica’s golden status because it was the most successful city state
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Personal Responsibility Derrick Grooms GEN/200 February 26, 2014 Robert Lightner Personal Responsibility Ever wonder what it would be like if we lived in a society where citizens where not held responsible for their actions? If we did, we would more than likely live in a society of failed justice, political, and education systems. Fortunately for us, we do live in a society where the majority of our citizens take personal responsibility for their actions. Personal responsibility
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and biased treatment between the two sexes. I strongly believe that the unequal treatment of women is something that should have stayed in original times. We are in the present now and we are far more advanced than we ever were and yet we are old school in our thinking of how men and women should be treated. I can strongly identify with gender inequality because many of my closest friends have faced it or still face it. Materialist theories define gender inequality as a result of how men and women
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Reformations Being Reformed Greek universities have always been the favorable battleground for political parties in the last 30 years. Young supporters armed with partisan zeal have been fighting each other mostly verbally, but sometimes by force too. This had been happening for the primacy of the students’ movement on behalf of their political patrons, while at the same time laying the stepping stone for their future professional careers within the party apparatus. Professors are also actively involved
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I. THE THEORY OF THE IDEAS AND PLATO’S ONTOLOGY I. 1. The ontological dualism The theory of the Ideas is the base of Plato’s philosophy: the Ideas are not only the real objects ontologically speaking, but they are the authentically objects of knowledge epistemologically speaking. From the point of view of ethics and politics, they are the foundation of the right behaviour, and anthropologically speaking they are the base of Plato’s dualism and they even allow him demonstrate
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Student: Hassan Mohammad Hilles. Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kawther Mahdi Course Title: Modern English and American Poetry Wystan Hugh Auden Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, in 1907. He moved to Birmingham during childhood and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. As a young man he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, as well as William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. At Oxford his precocity as a poet was immediately
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The researcher was compelled to the fact that the present situation in the elementary schools does not give enough attention to the basics of music because it has already been revealed in the literature that generalist teachers who are teaching in the foundations of human learning is not fully equipped. There is a need for in-service training programs in teaching music specifically on the foundation of music, the rhythmic skills, for it will serve as a stepping stone for our pupils to cope with the
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