... animal paintings inside. These were painted in the Upper Paleolithic era, before agriculture and domesticated animals. In this era, there were other types of art other than cave paintings; sculptures of corpulent women, called venuses, were also made of red ocher, a type of clay mixed with iron oxide ... architecture used lots of arches like the Romans, and Gothic architecture used lots of pointed arches, called "Gothic arches."" Next we find art in the Italian renaissance. Giotto was a painter in this time. He invented modern painting. He is best known for his frescos on a church in As...

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... possibly the best-documented catastrophe in Antiquity. Because of it, we know now how the Pompeians lived because they left behind an extensive legacy of art, including monuments, sculptures and paintings. Pompeii lay on a plateau of ancient lava near the Bay of Naples in western Italy in a region ... sunny climate. It is in the houses where wall paintings are founded, and, believe it or, not Pompeii owes its fame to the mural art preserved because they were "hermetically sealed by hardened lava and slime from all destructive atmospheric influences"(Kraus 156). Because of that, the house...

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... B. Demille created a movie about her life making her "the wickedest woman in history " (1). According to George Bernhard Shaw she was an emotionally disturbed sex kitten; to the painters of the Renaissance she was a helpless victim; to the poets of Romanticism she was a terrifying femme fatale, and to Arabic historian Al- Masudi she was a scholar and a sage (1). Cleopatra's personality was one of ... over the throne. During his possession of Egypt he founded a new capital and named it Alexandria after himself (6). Alex admired the Greek culture considerably, therefore causing the source...

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