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    Cross in the Mountains

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    (especially sunrise‚ dusk‚ and moonlight) and the four seasons. In 1818‚ at the age of 44‚ Friedrich married Caroline Bommer which brought him happiness and comfort. However‚ he also suffered from depression that had an impact on his painting. By 1826 his paintings became darker and more muted. Friedrich fell into poverty and the attraction of Romanticism faded and began to lose its appeal. During the final 15 years of his life‚ his backers deserted him and he became dependent on the charity of

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    island of Bermuda. Her grandfather‚ Clark Voorhees‚ was an American Impressionist painter who inspired Janet. Her father was an art history teacher‚ and her mother‚ Florence Whistler Fish‚ a sculptor and potter. She went to Skowhegan Summer School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine‚ and studied sculpture and printmaking at Smith College in Massachusetts‚ and graduated from Smith in 1960. She then went on to Yale University School of Art and Architecture in Connecticut‚ where she received her B.F.A. (Bachelor

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    Gothic Nightmares

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    magic and all things involving terror‚ love romance‚ passion. This ground breaking series of paintings steered the public away from traditional and renaissance art and introduced sex‚ horror and violence. Focusing on Henry Fuseli his work appears throughout eight rooms. “The Nightmare” for example holds great importance as it depicts the time. “The Nightmare” is an oil painting on canvas stretching 101.6x126.7cm wide painted in 1781 and has been copied by many artists

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    views on the way the treaty signing of 1867 happened we can begin to see the way both represented their own view. In my opinion‚ John Taylor represented the treaty signing better in the eyes of all of us. He may of used only black and white for his painting‚ but the distinguishing lines that help form both the figures and nature are much clearer. In John Taylor’s picture I can tell that it is a meeting of some kind. The way that all the men are sitting around as one man stands in the middle with his

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    Girl Before A Mirror

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    smooth lavender pink‚ appears serene. But it merges with a more roughly painted‚ frontal view of her face—a crescent‚ like the moon‚ yet intensely yellow‚ like the sun‚ and "made up" with a gilding of rouge‚ lipstick‚ and green eye-shadow. Perhaps the painting suggests both Walter’s day-self and her night-self‚ both her tranquillity and her vitality‚ but also the transition from an innocent girl to a worldly woman aware of her own sexuality. It is also a complex variant on the traditional Vanity—the

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    1. Identify two artistic sources for Ottonian manuscript painting and discuss how these sources combined to form a new style of illustration. Use examples to support your essay. The Ottonian manuscript paintings were based on two artistic sources the Carolingian manuscripts and Byzantine manuscripts that were both religious and imperial image. The Ottonian manuscripts were mainly interested in the story telling of the stages of Jesus life. For example‚ figure 10.31Christ Blessing Emperor Otto II

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    Krabia School Case Study

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    ANALYTICAL STUDY OF PAINT LAYER IN MURAL PAINTING OF KRABIA SCHOOL (19th c.)‚ CAIRO‚ EGYPT Nabil A. Bader1 & Waeel‚ B. Rashedy2 1 Conservation Department‚ Faculty of Archaeology‚ South Valley University‚ Qena‚ Egypt. 2 Islamic Department‚ Faculty of Archaeology‚ South Valley University‚ Qena‚ Egypt. Received: 21/07/2014 Accepted: 12/08/2014 Corresponding author: Nabil Bader (drnabil_bader@yahoo.com) ABSTRACT Krabia School was decorated with wall paintings which were applied at ceiling and walls of

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    versions done from artist Sandor Botticelli. The genre of the piece is of a religious essence. The Adoration of Magi is a scene were wise men come to see and bring gifts to Jesus. The pigment used in the painting was tempera‚ which is a water-soluble pigment. The piece was painted on wood. The painting is now housed in Uffizi Gallery‚ in Florence Italy. Development When I first look at Adoration of the Magi‚ my first impressions is that it is created using closed form. Even though it is a busy scene

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    How Art Made the World

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    create images? And How we had developed that skill? The first pictures that had been found in Northern Spain which believed the first examples of cave paintings and the pictures had been found in South Africa which they have made it by the prehistoric nation have essential in commons. Henry Broye‚ the French priest and the former expert of cave painting claimed that prehistoric

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    The Doomed Rafts

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    and dramatic theatrical effects contribute to the theme of desperation? Its beauty lies in its horror. It is a painting which the eye can easily divide into smaller and ever smaller units‚ each one of which requires – perhaps even seems to demand – feverish attention from the onlooker‚ quite as feverish as the terrible ocean‚ which is buffeting the doomed raft itself. • It is a painting of tumultuous bodies‚ reaching out‚ turning‚ twisting‚ and contorting‚ much seemingly in desperate conflict with

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