·Introduction: The Victorian era was a period full of changes; the most important was the reign of Queen Victoria‚ who ascended the throne in 1837 and ruled the British Empire‚ restoring stability to the crown. Her reign is considered one of the most prosperous in her time‚ which eventually became the symbol of a period that took its name‚ "the Victorian Era". Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was the first English monarch to see her name given to the period of her reign whilst still living (1).
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Jacques-Louis David‚ 1794‚Musée du Louvre | Birth name | Jacques-Louis David | Born | 30 August 1748 Paris‚ France | Died | 29 December 1825 (aged 77) Brussels‚ Netherlands | Nationality | French | Field | Painting‚ Drawing | Movement | Neoclassicism | Works | Oath of the Horatii (1784)‚ The Death of Marat (1793) | | | Jacques-Louis David (i/ʒɑːkˈlwi ˈdɑːviːd/; French: [ʒak lwi david]) (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style‚ considered
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The Cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues. Modern Interpretations in the Russian Music GABRIELA VLAHOPOL Musicology Department University of Arts “George Enescu” from Iaşi 7-9 Horia Street‚ Iaşi‚ 700126 ROMANIA gabriela_vlahopol@yahoo.com Abstract: Although the pair prelude-fugue is naturally associated with Bach ’s Well-tempered clavier‚ modern treatments applied to fugues and to other forms belonging to the Baroque were relatively common in the 1920s and the 1930s. The waning interest for the imitative
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Periods and their Artists * Chapter 3 Egypt * Old Kingdom (2700-2190 BCE) * Imhotep – Stepped Pyramid of Djoser * Chapter 5 Ancient Greece * Archaic (600-480 BCE) * Andokides Painter –Achilles and Ajax * Ergotimos –[and Kleitius] Fracois Vase * Euphronios –Death of Sarpedon * Exekias –Achilles and Ajax; Suicide of Ajax; Dionysis in a Boat * Polykleitos –Doryphoros * Classical (480-320 BCE) * Kalikrates
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The Context of Romanticism Vishwa Gulati English(hons) IIIrd year 10/0832 Introduction Romanticism is an art form that has been around since ancient times although it is more formally recognized as an artistic style in early nineteenth century. The term Romanticism applies to many different forms of art‚ including literature. When using the term in relation to the art‚ there is usually an emphasis on the passionate or violent. There are also fewer rules then other styles and the artwork can be created
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Chapters 1 and 2 Notes Chapter 1 Living with Art Megaliths are large stones that are surrounded by a circular ditch. The monument is presumably the marking of graveyard and once was accompanied by other monuments. The Neolithic era is known for the uses of new tools and constructive materials such as hardening clays using a flame. Pottery was used to create bowls‚ food jars‚ cups‚ and a variance of other objects. Each culture characterizes art in its own way. Artists perform tasks such as create
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Quasheioh Dukes Professor Tony American Literature 4 March 2013 Romanticism is the only literary movement exhibits a wide variety of art‚ literature and intellect in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This movement has been a topic of ample disagreements over its defining ideologies and aesthetics. It can best be described as a large network of sometimes competing philosophies‚ agendas‚ and points of interest. In England‚ Romanticism had its greatest influence from the end of the eighteenth
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A Guide To Frankenstein! A Guide To Frankenstein! GENRE: * Gothic: “It can be useful to think of the Gothic in terms of certain key cultural and literary oppositions: barbarity versus civilisation; the wild versus the domestic (or domesticated); the supernatural versus the apparently ‘natural’; that which lies beyond human understanding compared with that which we ordinarily encompass; the unconscious as opposed to the waking mind; passion versus reason; night versus day.”
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American Art and Architecture Two opposite forces have coexisted in American art since the establishment of the first colonies. On the one hand‚ American artists have been aware of their European cultural heritage and of continuing innovation in Europe; on the other hand‚ they have had to adapt European forms to the exigencies of their native situation. This interaction between rival forces is hardly unique to American art--all art grows within a tradition--but what distinguishes the American
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