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    During the 17th century‚ the Netherlands appears to become a very powerful country‚ as well as from an economic and political point of view‚ or from a cultural point a view. Dutch artists come up with new styles of paintings and new techniques‚ and it seems that Dutch patrons give more freedom to artists‚ compared to Italian patrons. Painters like Vermeer opt for classic scenes of daily life‚ i.e. “genre paintings”‚ as we can see it when observing his Het Schilderkunst. The work of art depicts

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    Question: Were the English colonists of the 17th century motivated more by the pursuit of wealth or faith in their struggle to create a new society in the American colonies? The English colonists of the 17th century came to the American colonies for many different reasons. The one that motivated them the most was their pursuit of wealth because‚ despite the early colonists saying that it was their mission as children of God to go to the new world and spread Christianity to more people‚ the

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    Abstract The use of light and dark in 17th Century art captures your eye‚ and you wish to include this important Baroque element in your book. Look at the portraits in the text and pick two painters and compare how they use brilliant light and dark shading to illuminate parts of the human body. I will use two different artists Antonio del Pollaiuolo‚ Battle of the nudes. Along with‚ Michelangelo. Pieta from Old Saint Peter’s. 17th Century Art‚ light vs. dark I will take a look at Antonio

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    Jay Peters AP European History Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries‚ scientists began to emerge with a new scientific worldview. They discerned new ways of experimentation and built off of scientists of the past. But these scientists were affected and pressured by different religious‚ social‚ and political factors. As scientists‚ or natural philosophers‚ made new discoveries and theories they often dedicated them to the church‚ whether it was literal dedication or whether the

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    Entertainment of the 16th and 17th Century: Elizabethan Theater Elizabethan Theater was a main source of entertainment from about 1576 to the late 1640s. The most popular description for this time period’s style of acting is exaggerated‚ actors had to exaggerate their parts for the audience to become attached and interested. There are many different types of plays and arts that influenced the Elizabethan theater’s style. As for its popularity that was mostly due to the Queen who was a big

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    Women Writers: Restoration and 18th Century Ballaster‚ Ros‚ Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684–1740‚ Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1992‚; New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1992‚ Landry‚ Donna‚ The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women’s Poetry in Britain 1739–1796‚ Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press‚ 1990 Myers‚ Sylvia Harcstark‚ The Bluestocking Circle: Friendship and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England‚ Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1990; New York: Oxford

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    India becoming the commercial and cultural capital of the nation and one of the most populous cities in the world. Although the islands were inhabited by humans since the Stone Age‚ the city was founded by Portuguese and British colonists in the 17th century. The city was named Bombay by the Portuguese and it served as the city’s official name until 1995‚ when it was changed to Mumbai‚ and both names are popularly and commonly used. Its inhabitants are informally known as Bombayites or Mumbaikars.

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    17th Century Massachusetts and the Salem Witch Trials In January of 1692‚ the daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris became ill‚ and when the children’s health did not improve‚ the village doctor William Griggs was called in to help. He swiftly diagnosed the girls with bewitchment and the famous witch trials of Salem took off. Salem had recently had an epidemic of Small Pox and had always had a strong belief in the Devil. These two factors added with the constant fear of attack from warring

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    Puritans of the Mid 17th Century The culture of New England in the early to mid 1600s was shaped by many societies. Perhaps the most influential group of immigrants were the Puritans. The ideas and values brought from the old world were given a new world spin‚ and adapted for smaller communities. These concept had vast effects on all aspects of New England existence. Economically‚ Their oppressive tendencies led to slightly less rapid growth in and around the region. Politically‚ The directly

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    The Similarities and Differences of 17th Century Japan and Europe (1500 to 1700) Japan‚ from 1500 to almost 1700‚ was undergoing a major transformation. The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola and approved by Pope Paul III as a religious order within the Catholic Church in 1540. Francis Xavier was the first Jesuit sent to preach religion outside of Europe. Three Portuguese traders whose ship was blown to Japan in 1542 or 1543 are the first

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