Alps

Most of the people have heard alp word, but most of them have not idea about the meaning of it especially if they are not from Europe, nor English speaker. Alp means elevated or high mountain. Alps are one of the highest point people have reached in this world. "The Alps form part of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Albania"( Aubrey, Diem). It is stretching approximately "750 miles long and more than 125 miles wide and cover more than 80,000 square miles" (Aubrey, Diem). With all of these information, the Alps became one of the most tour places in the world. French Alps are portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France. They are located in the Rhône-Alpes…

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Western Alps contain Mount Viso, which is 12,602 ft. (3,841m) high, and Gran Paradiso, which is 13,323 ft. (4,061m) high. Making the Gran Paradiso the highest mountain in Italy. The Second mountain group, the Central Alps, contain Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn (Monte Cervino), and Monte Rosa. The highest peaks of the ventral mountains are located within the bordering countries. Eastern Alps run west to east containing Dolomites and Mount Marmolada which is 10,968 ft. (3,343m) high. Italy is…

Winter or summer, the mountain ranges known as the Victorian Alps offer Aussies and visitors a unique opportunity to experience mountain life in all its splendor. The Australian Alps, being Australia's highest mountain range, borders eastern Vic, southeastern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory as well. As part of the Great Dividing Range, the Victorian or Australian Alps are also sometimes known as the High Country with highest peaked Mount Bogon rising at an elevation of…

1. Transhumance- the seasoned migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures. Example: Transhumance was practiced in the Swiss Alps, located in Switzerland. Seasonal droving of grazing livestock, such as cattle, occurred between the valleys in winter and the high mountain pastures in summer. Transhumance throughout the Alps has drastically impacted its shape. Without transhumance, the Alps would consist predominantly of forests. To this day, seasonal migration to high pastures…

The Alps are the youngest and highest mountain system in Europe. They stretch across the western and southern part of the continent in a broad arc. The mountain starts near the Mediterranean Sea on the border between France and Italy. Then it curves north and eastward through northern Italy, Switzerland Liechtenstein, southern Germany, Austria and Slovenia. This beautiful landscape is 1000 kilometers (621.371 miles) long and the widest section 260 kilometers (167.149 miles) wide. The Alps…

Poussin described his initial work on his new painting Hannibal Crossing the Alps as ‘thinking’. He told Cassiano del Pozzo he continued to give his commission ‘daily thought’: For the drawings for the honourable gentleman/your honourable self I am thinking [about them] every day, and I should quickly finish them/some.’ The words ‘I am thinking’ (j’y pense) is Poussin’s way of highlighting what he saw as his own exceptional intellectual efforts. And he assures Cassiano that tangible proof…

in New York. The subject in the foreground is an African American man mounted on a rearing horse in the style of Napoleon Bonaparte. The painting has a decorative, Baroque theme that looks very much like wallpaper in the painting’s background, reminiscent of luxurious French fabric. The background is also filled with tiny paintings of sperm which is Wiley’s way of parodying the style of art traditionally seen in Western portraiture which is filled with masculine figures. The whole painting is…

The piece Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005, is an appropriative work referencing J.L. David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps,1801 -a classical equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte. Historically, a portrait composition favours representing the white body. Even on the rare occasion, the model was a person of colour, the aspects of the paintings continued to favour whiteness. Christian and European cultural iconography was still overwhelmingly apparent in these portraits, and the…

"Napoleon Crossing the Alps" by Jacques-Louis David in the year 1801, is perhaps one of the greatest surging examples of Neoclassical art we have today. It is an oil painting on canvas whose saturated color shows an unusual amount of reverence to a mere man in charge of an army. Such exquisite detail and illumination in classical art was reserved for deities and heroes-- through this work it can only be assumed artist David equates Napoleon's strength with that of an epic figure or at the very…