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The baptism of Pocahontas was commissioned in 1837 and was installed in 1840 in the U.S Capitol. This painting is of the ceremony of Pocahontas being baptized in an Anglican church around 1613 or 1614 in Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was given the name Rebecca as her Christian name. At the time this painting was occurring, Chapman’s son died and then two weeks later his daughter was born prematurely and died hours later. Not only was he dealing with two tragedies, he was also under an…

Moulin de la Galette was painted by Pierre Auguste Renoir, completed in 1876. Bathers at Asnieres was painted by Georges Seurat, completed in 1884. Both paintings were created by French painters Moulin de la Galette and Bathers at Asnieres are similar by color scheme but differentiate by detail and mood. The technique of the artworks contrast noticeably. The Moulin de la Galette has no open space. They cover the canvas with people, all doing different things. Some people are dancing, while…

The oil painting Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market created in 1614 by Frans Snyder depicts a large size, naturalistic scene of a shopkeeper and his game in a Flemish marketplace. The painting is 83 ½ by 121 ¼ inches, which gives it an imposing scale. Snyder’s depiction of a scene from the everyday life of a Belgium in the 1600s is made realistic through a close attention to small details that would typically go unnoticed, as if to bring the viewer into the painting.…

Walking into the Princeton University Art Museum, the first gallery displays an exceptional acrylic on canvas, Tan Tan Bo. The painting stands as a huge work of art almost covering an entire wall. The vibrant colors of the work drew my eyes to the radiant painting. The grand size and the colors of this work popped out to me and made me stare at it for a while. Its complexity with so much happening almost everywhere you look catches your eyes and makes you wonder. In a gallery surrounded by…

My inspiration for my art piece was “Minoan Queens”, better know as the “Ladies in Blue. “Ladies in Blue” is a Minoan fresco painting that was discovered in fragments during the excavation of the Palace of Knossos in Crete, Greece. To be more specific, it was Buon fresco, or “true fresco”. It was 61½ inches by 40 inches and it is thought to have been created around 1525-1450 B.C. As we have learned in class, this Cretan palace was full of murals and fresco paintings. Like many Minoan paintings,…

1. Mario Echazabal worked for Chevron, through independent contractors, for over twenty-four years. When he applied to work directly for Chevron in 1992, they withdrew the offer after discovering the liver disease being exacerbated by working in the plant. However, they continued to allow him to work in the plant through the independent contractor for another four years. When Chevron offered Mr. Echazabal a job for the second time in 1995, they once again discovered the liver disease,…

The artwork I have chosen is the non-representational work of art titled, Dark Continent III. The media used is acrylic on paper and it is 42x 30 in. It is a work of art created by the artist, Robert Colescott in 1989. Colescott was an African American artist born on August 26, 1925 in Oakland, California. He died on June 4, 2009. The exhibition was a very large and spacious room with dim lighting. And a light shining down on the works of art, almost like a spotlight. The exhibition is very…

This is the most commonly cited source that is proposed to have been used for this composition by Titian and appears in the front to Arthur Pope’s analysis of the painting for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where the painting resides. This text provides the most vital pieces of information; that the painting shows Zeus in the form of a bull who has seduced Europa with his beauty and kindness, only to run off with her against her will. This source is further connected to Titian because, in…

Created in 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act was the first legislation allowing the government to enforce regulations on trusts that interfered with free trade and market competition. Named after U.S. Senator John Sherman of Ohio, the act allowed government to establish proceedings against trusts in order to disassemble these organizations. Trusts had created many problems in the free market such as establishing monopolies over certain industries. This lead to extremely high prices and low supply…

Wedding Portrait or Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, Jan van Eyck’s 1434 oil painting on wood panel, is among the most famous paintings in Renaissance art. This painting not only is a double portrait but also visually certifies the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini, an Italian merchant, and his betrothed in their Flemish home in Bruges. Van Eyck’s composition is filled with elaborate detail and complex symbolism. The use of oil paint instead of tempera paint allowed van Eyck to create the illusion…