Cupid

The pieces of work discussed in this piece all share a common 745 format, which the prime example is Cupid and Psyche, which shows that overcoming adversity to find love is worth the battle. The 745 formatting is common in most Disney films and often used in romance stories in which obstacles must be overcome to achieve happiness. The Tale of Tulisa depicts…

Augustus came to power in 27BC ‘the first Roman Emperor became a model for his successors including his use of mythical imagery’ ( p.134 block 2). During the middle and late Republic ‘it was fashionable for Roman upper classes to link themselves genealogically with the Gods and Heroes themselves’ (P143 textual sources) Livy said ,It adds dignity to the past, and if any nation deserves the privilege of claiming a divine ancestory, that nation is our own )’ p.17 textual sources)…

Thresholds 1, 2, & 3: In threshold 1, 2, and 3 the beginning of the Greco-Roman universe was never truly empty, there was nothing but Chaos. Chaos as it was called, was described as darkness and disorder. According to Greco-Roman theory, there were no gods present in the beginning- though in time, a god of nature separated light and dark, soft and hard, weight from weightless, etc. The godly being separated those spaces with gods that we know of today. Then, 4 forces appeared fire, light, air…

Group Members: Amirali Aghnami Zhobin Sadeghi Kevin Rush Wei Qiu Sarah Smurthwaite Art History 1 Professor Meyer 24 October 2014 Peace and Security Art and architecture throughout history has kept alive and allowed expansion of ideas, reality, and emotion. It not only sustained and expanded cultures, but is allowed people to have the freedom to express and honor heroes, religious figures, and the values that societies embraced which were courage, dignity, peace, and security. In art…

believed to have been commissioned for the marriage of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco, a member of the Medici family. The figure in the center, the Roman goddess Venus, is surrounded by a group of mythological figures, including Mercury and a blindfolded Cupid (“Botticelli’s Primavera”). Botticelli is also able to challenge the authority of the church through his painting the “Birth of Venus”. Commissioned by the Medici family and created in 1486, the “Birth of Venus” depicts the Roman goddess Venus…

that Titian was not only a master painter, but he had mastered the art of politics. Titian had done many things that w gone unseen prior to his existence. Venus and the Lute Player is in fact part of a series of six that he does. In each painting, Cupid is interacting differently, the landscape is changed, the musician is changed, and different symbolism is added to each. Venus and the Lute Player is an incredibly interesting painting to analyze. In every painting of the series, Venus is…

This wasn’t a secret because all the olympians know about it. Ares and Aphrodite had children out of this affair like Cupid and Harmonia, the goddess of harmony. He had many children, conceiving more mortal children than divine. Ares was also the father of the Amazons which are warrior women. Their mother was the nymph Harmony. Ares wasn’t one of the more popular gods,…

The “Father of English Literature” Geoffrey Chaucer, born in London around 1343, was the first poet to be buried in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey and largely influenced literature since he was the first to introduce English in his work while other court poetry was still written in Latin or French. Geoffrey Chaucer was the son of John Chaucer, a London wine merchant, who grew up in an able and wealthy family. He began to write poetry in the 1360s, when England had a peace treaty with…

Virgil, Vergil, or Publius Vergilius Maro was a Roman poet. He was best known for writing the poem epic “Aeneid.” “Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet, an estimation that subsequent generations have upheld.” [1] Virgil fame mostly surrounded by his unfinished poem Aeneid. He was born/lived the peasant stock life. His inspiration and love for the Italian countryside and the people of Italy helped shaped his poetry. Virgil was well educated in his knowledge for Greek and Roman…

her next generations. Her last set of famous kids were Eros and Himeros. They were being carried in the arms of Aphrodite when she arose from the seafoam. They are the gods of love, sexuality, and desire, and Eros depicts what most commonly know as Cupid, with a bow and arrow that will make people fall in love. Eros teamed up with his mother, Aphrodite to get Aphrodite’s father, Zeus to marry a mortal named Europa. Himeros is always depicted with his twin brother Eros, and the other Erotes.…