The Baroque Period

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    The Last Supper

    disciples about to tell everyone that someone at that table will soon betray him. Around the time period when the last supper was created, perspective played a big role in society. Perspective helped artists gain a better understanding about art and how they can improve on it. Leonardo created perspective specifically for that art piece. Da Vinci’s fresco inspired numerous renaissance artists and baroque painters. Fresco is a technique for painting on walls, made popular during the renaissance. Leonardo

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    Intramuros

    HUMANITIES 1 (RESEARCH PAPER) HISTORY OF PAINTINGS AND ARTISTS IN THE WORLD ADRIAN M SITCHON PROF. PEREZ 4TH YEAR/BS.HRM/NS (SUBMITTED BY) TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION HISTORY BODY * EASTERN PAINTING * WESTERN PAINTING * 20th-CENTURY MODERN * AND CONTEMPORARY DEFINITION OF TERMS * FAMOUS PAINTERS * AND BIOGRAPHY * Paintings of famous painters CONCLUSION RECOMMENDATION REFERENCE INTRODUCTION: Painting can be done in

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    Gothic Art Analysis

    of Caravaggio into baroque, a French artist takes it towards classicism. It is not known whether La Tour visits Italy, but the style of Caravaggio is anyway familiar through the master's northern followers in the Netherlands. The other two French classical painters spend nearly all their working lives in Rome. Nicolas Poussin moves to Italy in his twenties, in 1624. He makes an intense study of classical sculpture and finds himself increasingly out of sympathy with the baroque style prevailing in

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    Art Detective

    interest in art and sculpture with respect to the individual and with the natural world. Art took a complete shift away from religion as individuals were inspired to understand what it really meant and looked like to be human. Seventeenth century Baroque artwork came about largely from the effort of the papacy to evoke intense emotion in magnifying and glorifying the Catholic religion. It is because of the majority patronage of arts by the papal courts that most works once again began to focus around

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    Hypocrisy By Sister Juana Ines De La Cruz

    women of the time period are what initially drew me towards this work and it also prompted me to think about how much or how little expected roles for women today in certain cultures. The poem also mirrors the historical information in the main text for the class by indicating that while women may have been influential and held positions of power or esteem that for the majority of women the sentiments echoed in Poem 2 by were the how women were viewed in society by men of the time period. The contradictions

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    Comparison Of Velaszquez And Freud's Art

    Similarities – Both Velaszquez and Freud’s works fall under the nature of female reclining nude. Using oil paint on canvas, both artists have worked to embody classical elements such as drapery and furnishing to evoking the relaxed mood, felt in both paintings. In terms of physical composition, both figures appear in the middle of the canvas as to highlight that they are the central focus of the painting. Differences – Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, depicts a far more contemporary

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    Humanities

    Neoclassical art period occurred in the 18th century Age of Enlightment and has been defined to have been between the years of 1780 CE and 1820 CE. This art period started when Pompeii was accidentally rediscovered in the 1700’s after Mount Vesuvius erupted, covering all the occupants. Europeans were fascinated with the frozen city and this revitalized the interest in the classical art of Rome and Greece. Neoclassical art techniques used light and dark colors to contrast, simulating the Baroque art time

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    Cultral Event

    feel their passion radiating from these canvases, the vibrant colors, the elaborate brush strokes and attention to minute details all brought across the message of these paintings I spent close to two hours looking at paintings dating from the Baroque period all the way into the modern age but the paintings that really caught my eyes were those from the 17th century. Of these the ones that made an impression on me were: 1. “Virgin and child with Angel” painted in 1642 by Simon Vouet in France

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    Factor Number One Of The Major Works Of Peter Paul Rubens

    Factor number one is other works of art by the same artist, which would be Peter Paul Ruben who was during the Baroque time period. Factor one says that acquaintance with Rubens art work may enhance one’s appreciation. I found his art work to be extremely alluring, while captivating to one’s eyes. From viewing his pieces of work one can see that he uses the body as his focal point. Since the background is often encompassed with dark, rich colors, while the body is contrasting against the dark, rich

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    Music Essay

    Valerio Sanders Music Appreciation Final Exam My comparison will go between two periods that was classic vs. romantic classical music composers were satisfied to stay and work within a definite boundary of what made up the acceptable music. In this era the chord resolutions were at all times the identical, and furthermore the connection between keys, sections, and movements, maintained proportion. On the other hand the Romantic composers extended these boundaries or rather limitations

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