Western Europe‚ and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature and a movement in revolt against the Neoclassicism of the previous centuries‚ and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts‚ music and literature. Romanticism placed a new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation‚ horror‚ and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity in untamed nature
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desired to divine” but reveals the Gothic influence through the monster’s revengeful quest to destroy his creator. The novel focuses on Victor’s Romantic passion and imagination to exceed the boundaries of humanity‚ veering from the formalities of Neoclassicism. Frankenstein features galvanisation as the vehicle for Victor’s desire to sacrilegiously create “a new species that would bless me as its creator”‚ initiating his destructive and god-defying role as “the modern Prometheus”‚ revealing humanity’s
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History of the Reichstag The building that I am going to write about in this essay is the Reichstag building. This building is situated in Berlin‚ Germany. The Reichstag was built in 1894 by the architect Paul Wallot. The Reichstag housed the German parliament up until it was severely damaged by the fire in 1933; in 1945 it was almost destroyed by the bombing in WW2 and restored in the 1960s. I chose to write about this building because I am captivated by its turbulent history and although it has
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Laneyrie-Dagen‚ Nadeije‚ How to Read Paintings 2 The Secrets of the Artist’s Studio‚ Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd‚ 2004 Laneyrie-Dagen‚ Nadeije‚ How to Read Paintings‚ Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd‚ 2004 Masterpieces of Western Art From the Gothic to Neoclassicism‚ Taschen‚ 1996‚ Sawday‚ Jonathan The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture‚ Routledge‚ 2013 Shearman‚ John‚ Only Connect Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance (New Jersey‚ Princeton University Press‚ 1992
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EUR 101 Spring 2013 Foundations of Europe 1:00-2:20 p.m. T Th Harriman 137 DEC G Professor: Timothy Westphalen Office: Humanities 1140 E-mail: Timothy.Westphalen@StonyBrook.edu Office Hours; Tues. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Tues.‚ 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thurs. 2:30-3:30 p.m. And by appointment. Teaching assistant: Anna Geisherik Office: Humanities 1077 E-mail: ageisherik@gmail.com Office hours: Tues. and Thurs.‚ 4:30-5:15; 7-7:45p.m. READINGS (All books available in the
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These operas were composed during his years in Milan which ultimately earned him international fame. In 1830‚ Bellini was struggling with his health. Intestinal inflammation was the major concern to his physical. Many his friends and later critics praised his determination and resilience among ill time. According to Herbert Weinstock‚ the young was spending more than 14 hours a day on composition. Bellini’s short life was devoted to creating long lasting opera pieces. During April to May in 1830
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He began composing in a post-Romantic style‚ although his textures are generally not full and moved toward a neoclassicism during the 1920’s. In 1930‚ Hindemith had consolidated his research and as he continued to develop his own personal style he began to produce a series of masterpieces and sonatas for almost every major instrument. The composer describes the work
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Born in 1882 in Oranienbaum‚ Russia‚ a city southwest of St. Petersburg‚ Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian/American composer who was described as one of the most important composers in the 20th century. Stravinsky was even named by Time Magazine’ as one of the most influential people of the century. Stravinsky made many special contributions to music in the 20th century which were wide and varied. His material was raw and produced a fresh and new sound for the 20th century world of music
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French Rococo Era Painter‚ 1703-1770 Francois Boucher seems to have been perfectly attuned to his times‚ a period which had cast off the pomp and circumstance characteristic of the preceding age of Louis XIV and had replaced formality and ritual by intimacy and artificial manners. Boucher was very much bound to the whims of this frivolous society‚ and he painted primarily what his patrons wanted to see. It appears that their sight was best satisfied by amorous subjects‚ both mythological and contemporary
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Orientalism: Edward W. Said‚ post-collonail studies / Odalisque: exotic‚ erotic subjects like the harem girl(turkish word); redining or recumbent‚female nude; recurrent figure throuhout Western Art/ Die Bruke-The Bridge: 1905-ernst cuding kirchner (dissolved in 1913); earlliest German group to seize the avant-garde spirit; means “bridge”-members believed their work would be a bridge to the future; artists lived and worked communally producing intense‚ anguished pictures with harshly distorted forms
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