Renaissance: Compare the two David’s: one by Donatello and the other by Michelangelo. Consider formal and contextual elements (FORMAL: viewpoint‚ materials‚ volume‚ texture; CONTEXTUAL: artist‚ patron‚ viewers‚ original location‚ political/religious/social messages- narrative moment‚ facial features/expressions). Donatello was an artist in the early Renaissance. His interpretation of David is the earliest known life-size bronze nude European art (Stokstad and Cothren 321). The sculpture stands
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)‚ English author‚ feminist‚ essayist‚ publisher‚ and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929); All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that‚ as you will see‚ leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.-Ch. 1 Now regarded as a classic feminist work‚ Woolf based her extended essay A Room on lectures she had given at women’s
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privileged enough to have soap and bathrooms‚ and even a dentist. There has been major advancements in hygiene since the Medieval Times. After the Black Death‚ Medieval people started looking for a link between hygiene and health. Before that‚ their general hygiene was so awful everywhere you went the smell was repulsive. Sadly‚ Old Spice and Secret were not around years ago. People of Medieval times had no choice but to come up with something else. Nosegays‚
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Gender roles took a very big part with the depiction of women during the strong artistic values in the Renaissance. This included social run ins‚ what women did and were allowed to do‚ the women who participated in making art‚ art workshops and institutions‚ how nuns and religions were involved‚ the differences between men and women with public art‚ patronage and the female representation. Women have always been discriminated against in the art world and had very different rules than
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Before the Renaissance‚ the Catholic Church mostly commissioned art‚ this gave artists strict guidelines about what the finished artwork was to look like‚ and the themes were usually religious or biblical. Medieval art was decorative‚ flat‚ and two-dimensional and did not depict the world or human beings very realistic‚ but a thriving commercial economy distributed wealth not just to the people but also‚ to merchants and bankers who were eager to show their status by purchasing art pieces. New cultural
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The Renaissance is known for being a rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman ideas. Many historians believe it is filled with literature similar to previous works simply retelling the same story. Niccolò Machiavelli took various ideas from ancient political literature‚ mainly drawing from Plato’s Republic. Next‚ he set out to write his own political work known as The Prince. This piece of literature is considered a handbook for political leadership. He wanted to be in politics‚ although could not‚ thus
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In the 1960 film "Little Shop of Horrors"‚ the main character‚ Seymour acquires a strange plant‚ which‚ we find out later‚ talks‚ lives off blood and eats people. The main idea of this film is when you try to please everyone without regard to yourself you end up loosing yourself. The other characters in the story revolve around Seymour and this bizarre plant. He names the plant after his crush Audrey‚ who is an assistant in the flower shop where he works. The owner of the shop‚ Mr. Mushnick‚ is a
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Renaissance painters such as Leonardo Da Vinci‚ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Tintoretto were a defined as the High Renaissance artist in their age. Although they were all artist of the same phase but they decided to express art in different ways‚ in order to bring back the art work of Rome into their Glorious age. Leonardo Da Vinci focuses more on scientific researches and a broad variety of art works such as painting‚ sculptures and architecture. While Michelangelo focuses more
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2011-2012 DBQ The Renaissance was a period in history where European life changed drastically. It revolutionized lifestyle from that of the Middle Ages in the areas of art‚ science‚ and ideology. The Renaissance revolutionized ideology the most because in the Middle Ages humanism was almost non-existent and ideas were based more on religion‚ and human potential was unvalued. In the Renaissance period‚ people focused on human potential and values. Human potential was completely different in these
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The Significance of the Harlem Renaissance Starting around the year 1917‚ Harlem‚ New York was bustling with life. Harlem was a diverse area where there little authority on cultural aspects for any one race‚ but in particular the African Americans. The African American people migrated to Harlem‚ and to other major cities in the North‚ in search of better opportunities than those found in the South. African Americans‚ though‚ were still cut down in society and the effects of the segregation in their
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