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Da Vinci through the Mona Lisa painting became the first painter to use an aerial perspective to depict a sitter before an imaginary landscape in a portrait. The enigmatic and mysterious woman is seated on an open loggia as the picture portrays each side of the picture containing dark pillar bases. There is a vast…

Myths are a “body of beliefs, fables, or legends belonging to a people, usually involving spiritual tales that reflect the philosophy of the culture” (Comstack, 2014). The important function that myths serve in society is telling why good and evil exist and the consequences of behaving outside of cultural norms. “Joseph Campbell described the hero…

Julius Caesar was the great leader of the Roman Empire. He was a tragic hero with a tragic flaw. Many thought he was well suited for his position, but his fellow politicians thought otherwise. The tragedy of Marcus Brutus should be of great importance because his jealousy showed disloyalty and how friends can be traitors,…

Nature of Abstract Art (1937) by Meyer Schapiro was written as a direct response to Alfred Barr’s essay on Cubism and Abstract Art. In his response, Schapiro critiques Barrs formalist view point. Barr was one of the first historians to create a visual flowchart to map out the history of modern art but his assumptions…

Chinese contemporary ink art later the 1990s has experienced extraordinary artistic conversion, with a multidimensional elaboration of Chinese ink painting on the course to modernization. As ink painting has become contemporary, the method of conversion has been completely and conclusively transparent one, and collecting of the significant Chinese contemporary arts has now developed, allowing for…

Armand Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville and Édouard Manet, the “Kearsarge” at Boulogne Armand Guillaumin was an impressionist and lithographer born in Paris, France in a working family that later moved to Moulins in Bourbonnais where he spent his childhood days. Armand started working at the age of 15 at his uncle’s…

Abstract Art history is a knowledge about development of how artist work like panting, monuments, temples, culture have developed and reached to this time. In this paper will gives information about Greek and Roman art civilization. If we look at the present time roman civilization have given birth to politicians, writers and its footprint is…

Greek culture laid the foundation for the Roman Empire. The Roman people wanted to be like the Greek people. For example the Romans made a sculpture of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. The Romans recognized the Greek art and architecture to be very well done. Since the Romans likes these traits of the Greek they used…

The circumstances surrounding the composition of Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” explain his use of “The darkest evening of the year” (L.8) which is closely related it to the greater theme of perseverance in the face of hardship. Frost wrote this poem, in November (Frost Chronology) 1923; on the same…

Among Poe’s most intriguing tales is “The Cask of Amontillado,” first published in Godey’s Lady’s Book in November of 1847. A surface reading of that story reveals only a simple description by Montresor (the narrator) of how he kills another man who was called, ironically, Fortunato, Montresor exploits Fortunato’s vanity concerning the connoiseurship of wine;…