... then being expelled from the beautiful Garden of Eden. Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" (1642) on the other hand, is not a biblical story, it's not really a story at all it's just a painting showing a gathering of military importance. Michelangelo's payment for his work came from the pockets of the Catholic Church unlike Rembrandt who's pay came from the pockets of the wealthy men ... whom he painted in this work. Michelangelo painted a story where the characters have appeared more than once in the painting and made it a closed composition meaning that the whole story is contained in the f...

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... had greatly affected More's spirituality. Religion was emphasized since the monasteries were very orthodox and only took care in preserving their religion. 2.) The painting had also contradicted secularism because it was centered on the commitments of God who was supposedly the source of all life. They are showing the importance ... nature an interesting topic since he encouraged his kids to do research on it or observe it. He was sparking their inquisitiveness. 3.) In the family painting, the More family is shown reading about math, music, and astronomy. They are shown to be having int...

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... of paintings, if not all, were purely centered around themes relating to God and the Church. At the start of the Renaissance, that all changed. Painters like Leonardo DaVinci started painting things such as the Mona Lisa (Document A) which focused more intensely on the human form and expression. In the Middle Ages, paintings were usually unrealistically created, but still keeping Christ ... as the main subject. For instance, in the late 1200's a painter by the name of, Duccio di Buoninsegna created a painting titled, Madonna Enthroned Between Two Angels. (Document A) In this painting, t...

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... because I don't know what's going to happen. This is a certain suspense that is derived from uniqueness that cannot be gathered from something that is not unique. When I first saw the painting "Epiphany- by the Italian Giotto di Bondone, my mind took me back to that Catholic Church where I spent that scary day of my six-year-old life. The ... painting depicts the birth of Christ in all its realism. Though there are angels that fly atop the painting gloriously, the people that surround Christ looked pained as if they had just been suffering. I had never seen the birth of ... my first ex...

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... worry about making their paintings realistic. This trend did not continue into the Renaissance, which is clear in the obvious inconsistencies between the two paintings shown in Document A. The second painting, The Mona Lisa, shows that the Renaissance changed the mindset of man through the great detail shown, which proves that he paid attention to, and appreciated, man and his beauty ... more. Artists now painted man for the sake of painting a beautiful individual rather than painting an individual for the purpose of conveying some sort of biblical message. The emphasis on the individua...

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... started by many rich Italian cities, such as Florence, Ferrara, Milan, and Venice. Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on different things, such as painting, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. These things gave rise to a new type of scholar, the humanist. Humanism was a subject concerned with humankind and culture. They studied ... various things such as Latin, Greek language, literature and philosophy. Music and mathematics were also studied as well. The Renaissance gave way to new forms of painting, art and sculpt...

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... started by many rich Italian cities, such as Florence, Ferrara, Milan ,and Venice. Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on different things, such as painting, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. These things gave rise to a new type of scholar, the humanist. Humanism was subjects concerned with humankind and culture. They stutied ... various things such as Latin, Greek language, literature and philosophy. Music and mathmatics were also studied as well. The Renaissance gave way to new forms of painting , art and sculptu...

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... . After her mother tried to hit her Sadie flees from the kitchen into the street. The Jackson's house doesn't look like the other houses in the street. That's because of a painting on the front side. It shows a mural of William of Orange. On the street Tommy and Sadie meet Steve and Linda who want to go to Mrs McConkey's shop to ... orange paint which they hide under the bed when they come home. At night they both get outside with the paint to go to the Catholic area. When they are painting the wall with "GOD BLESS KING BILLY, NO POPE HERE" and try to run away, Sadie is caught by Brian. ...

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... products became important commodities as capitalism developed. The Baroque artist began to specialize even further, no longer the universal man of the Renaissance, but concentrating on a particular medium. Artist began painting primarily landscapes, his need for a dealer increased, and they had to find a market for their work. Romantics challenged the idea that reason was the one path to truth, judging it ... ...

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... are not only viewing a masterpiece but also extracting a part of our world's history. Many Baroque period artists were influenced by many of the discoveries in their time and when viewing a painting one is not only taking in beauty but also apart of history. Today's art does not take on the same propagandistic function as it did in the seventeenth century. The ... ...

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... into their paintings, challenging the way things have been done in the past. These artists also added abnormal figures or altered the proportions in paintings. This is displayed in Parmigianino's painting, Madonna of the long neck. During this time the Catholic Church was in a transition period moving from their recent reputation and becoming a well-respected organization. During this reform, an autobiography ... ...

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... in. the ceiling had to be two hundred feet. The ceiling is painted an off white, the same as the walls. In the center of the ceiling there is a huge painting that is the stairway to heaven. I found out that the paintings on the ceiling is a mural of Jesus, Peter, Gabriel and all the other angles that meet you at the ... ...

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... . The book goes into depth about the Dead Sea scrolls and the deception the Church has had on past history. As I said before, the Holy Grail is a woman. In the painting The Last Supper there are 12 wine glasses not one chalice, so the saying, "Jesus took the cup of wine, sharing it with His disciples" is false. There was no ... ...

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... are not only viewing a masterpiece but also extracting a part of our world's history. Many Baroque period artists were influenced by many of the discoveries in their time and when viewing a painting one is not only taking in beauty but also apart of history. Today's art does not take on the same propagandistic function as it did in the seventeenth century. The ... ...

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... of death became more morbid after the Plague. A fair example can be found on a wall of the cemetery close to Camposanto (Pisa Cathedral) in Pisa. Like Pieter Bruegel, The Elder's painting, "Triumph of Death", 1562 (attached), this fresco by Francesco Traini, is also called "Triumph of Death", 1350 (Roy T. Matthew and F. DeWitt Platt, The Western Humanities, Second Edition, Mayfield Publishing Company ... ...

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... of death became more morbid after the Plague. A fair example can be found on a wall of the cemetery close to Camposanto (Pisa Cathedral) in Pisa. Like Pieter Bruegel, The Elder's painting, "Triumph of Death", 1562 (attached), this fresco by Francesco Traini, is also called "Triumph of Death", 1350 (Roy T. Matthew and F. DeWitt Platt, The Western Humanities, Second Edition, Mayfield Publishing Company ... ...

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... had, its influence was felt in the dramatic writing of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the German playwright, and the philosophical writing of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The Baroque had a big impact on painting in Italy, the Low Countries, France, England, and Spain; but its influence was greater on German sculpture where it was assimilated by the alpine woodcarving tradition which produced altarpieces that ... ...

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