John Locke and Isaac Newton were the major intellectual forerunners of the Enlightenment. Print culture was a culture in which books‚ journals‚ newspapers‚ and pamphlets had achieved a status of their own. The Enlightenment flourished in this. The most influential philosophe was Voltaire. He wrote Letters on the English. The book praised the virtues of the English‚ especially their religious liberty‚ and criticized the abuses of French society. Voltaire said Muhammad and Islam represented simply
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The Teapot It is intriguing to imagine that the evolution of such an extraordinary artifact started as a necessity alongside the development of tea. It was required that some sort of vessel was needed for both brewing and drinking of these dried‚ crushed leaves. The teapot has transformed itself in so many ways through the ages making each individual structure unique. Whether they were produced in ceramic or porcelain the finer details of teapots have accompanied the time period in which they
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a high-ranking government official and her grandfather was the influential Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard. She and her sister Edma began painting as young girls. Despite the fact that as women they were not allowed to join official arts institutions‚ the sisters earned respect in art circles for their talent. She was born into a family that‚ according to family tradition‚ had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime‚ Fragonard‚ whose handling of color and expressive
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is falling apart around them. Heffernan is known for her lush‚ colorful‚ and mystical style artworks and many of her paintings display an assortment of styles. The artists paintings are reminiscent of paintings done by Heironymus Bosch‚ also of the Rococo‚ and Romantic
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Art is portrayed in so many different views. When looking at each piece of art and its cultural background I was interested to see more. I enjoyed each piece of art and the inspiration behind it was even more eye opening to me. There is a historical perspective behind each piece of art and we as people have not taken the time to see how art was started. I have never looked at art in such a serious way until now‚ being able to see such a wide variety of art and how each piece was created was very
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Baroque style period Baroque is a period of artistic style that started around 1600 in Rome‚ Italy‚ and spread throughout the majority of Europe. baroque period‚ era in the history of the Western arts roughly coinciding with the 17th century. Its earliest manifestations‚ which occurred in Italy‚ date from the latter decades of the 16th century‚ while in some regions‚ notably Germany and colonial South America‚ certain of its culminating achievements did not occur until the 18th century. The
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How fashion professionals are inspired by history and culture? It has long been claimed that fashion is a repetition of well-forgotten old. For centuries‚ designers drew inspiration from ancient cultures and traditions‚ ancient civilizations‚ mythical gods and exotic countries. Often the Greek goddesses‚ who have long manipulated the arts and war‚ intervened also in fashion. For years the dresses are current‚ familiar from mythology and the movies with mythological themes - naked shoulder‚ enchanting
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as very opposite they share many similarities and we continue to learn and grow from them. Lets go back… To a new era‚ widespread and influential for paintings and the other visual arts‚ a reaction against the sensuous and frivolously decorative Rococo style that dominated European art from the 1720s on. Beginning in the 1760s‚ Neoclassicism arose‚ reached its height in the 1780s and ‘90s during the French Revolution and lasted until about the 1850s. Neoclassicism was impacted by the exploration
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David was the virtual art dictator of France for a generation. Extending beyond painting‚ his influence determined the course of fashion‚ furniture design‚ and interior decoration and was reflected in the development of moral philosophy. His art was a sudden and decisive break with tradition‚ and from this break "modern art" is dated. David studied with Vien‚ and after winning the Prix de Rome (which had been refused him four times‚ causing him to attempt suicide by starvation) he accompanied
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Neoclassical history painting‚ subjects drawn from established relic. (Age of Reason‚ examination) The story happens in the second century BCE‚ amid the Republican time of Rome. A lady guest has been exhibiting her gems and afterward demands to be shown those of her host. Cornelia shifts to her children and announces that these are her valuable gems. In this painting Cornelia epitomizes the "great mother”. The estimation of Cornelia’s maternal devotion is underlined by the way that under her adoring
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