Annunciation

Lost In The Forms, Forever In The Intelligence During the Renaissance period in life, a man by the name of Leonardo Da Vinci was doing many things that helped change the views of man. Leonardo was born out of wedlock between a respected notary and a peasant woman in 1452. During his child and teen years, Leonardo was under the care of a sculptor by the name of Andrea Del Verrocchio, who helped him kick off his art career. Like all people, Leonard had his fair share of thoughts and opinions, he…

Mrs. Koontz, Last year, when I signed up for Speech and Composition, it didn’t seem like much of a difference than the classes Speech and Fundamentals of Writing. However, I know now that I made the right choice to have a year round class than just a separate units for each topic because I practiced and attained valuable skills such as communication and 10th grade level writing simultaneously instead of a semester at a time. My time spent in your classroom has prepared me for the classes I…

The Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas and Passacaglia for solo violin and continuo are a collection of sixteen works written by Heinrich Biber and dedicated to his employer and patron, Archbishop Maximilian Gandolph of Salzburg (Chafe, 1987; Clements, 2001; Holman, 1999). Consisting of three groups of five short works (The Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries) and a longer stand-alone work, the sonatas and unaccompanied passacaglia together represent the fifteen mysteries of the rosary, a Catholic…

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata is the most important Catholic place of worship in the city of Otranto. The cathedral, built on the ruins of a village, a Roman domus, and an Early Christian temple, was founded in 1068 by the Norman bishop William. It is a synthesis of different architectural styles including Byzantine, Christian, and Romanesque. It was consecrated on 1 August 1088 during the reign of Pope Urban II from the papal legate Roffredo, archbishop of Benevento. In August 1480,…

The Renaissance is among the most prominent and influential historical time periods in all of art history. Derived the from the French term for “rebirth,” the Renaissance was a renewed interest in the ideas, culture, forms and perspectives of the ancient civilizations of Greek and Rome. As the Renaissance flourished in different regions of Europe, the social, political, and cultural factors of the regions culminated in discrete styles. Although there were similar overarching principles, there…

Duccio and Giotto paint, arguably, their most influential pieces during the first decade of the twelfth century . Giotto is commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni in Padua to fresco the Arena Chapel to reconcile himself with God over the sins of his father’s usury. In contrast, Duccio is commissioned by the Church fathers of Sienna to paint a panel altarpiece for the Duomo . Giotto utilizes his private patronage to develop new principles of dramatic narrative while Duccio sticks to the Bible stories…

They moved to trading derivatives – in 2000, Enron's derivatives-related assets increased from $2.2 billion to $12 billion. They had deals in areas such as weather derivatives, water services, metal trading, broadband supply and power plant. Soon enough, Enron had more contracts than any of its competitors and could predict future prices with great accuracy. Enron seemed to always have steady, high profits. Behind the scenes, however, there was much more to it. Starting with the Vahalla scandal…

A birth announcement should be a proclamation that should bring happiness and joy. Instead, an annunciation of a baby being a girl has become dangerous. In India and many other parts of the world, thousands of girls are victims of abuse, negligence, and murder, simply because they are girls. Similarly, to genocide where a specific group is deliberately exterminated, gendercide is a sex-selective killing where men or women are victims disproportionately (Carpenter). The war against women in India…

The Temple Expiatori of La Sagrada Familia (abbr. La Sagrada Familia), uses iconography, a formal composition, and numerology to create a monumental moment to teach and tell the story of the New Testament to Christians of all backgrounds. La Sagrada Familia, whose design is attributed to Antonio Gaudi, is a modernisme (a style of Catalan Architecture that has ties to Art Nouveau and Neo-Gothicism) minor basilica located in Barcelona, Spain. The use of multiple iconographic scenes and symbolic…

One of the most influential and well known people in the history of humanity was a man who combined invention, art, nature, and science together in a way that would revolutionize how life and creation were perceived by everyone. Leonardo Da Vinci was responsible for these contemporary contributions that changed art and science for ever. Hundreds of revolutions had occurred before his time, however the way he perceived the world allowed him to experience life in a very different way from every…