Diego Velázquez

From a very young age, Salvador Dali understood that he was different from other people. An extremely shy young boy – insecure to a point – he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and when the attention arose, he reveled in it. From his early years until his death, Dali at home when he pushed a friend off of a cliff, to his years in art school when he flung himself down a flight of stairs, to his obsession with thinking he remembered being in the womb and being birthed, to his…

The State Art Museum of Florida, known as The Ringling , was once owned by one of the wealthiest men of the Roaring twenties, John Ringling. This museum is located in Sarasota, Florida and houses some of the most prominent works of art representing the culture and time of Europe back then and still continues to grow to this day. It opened it doors to the public in 1931, which was two years after the death of John’s wife Mable, hoping it would “promote education and art appreciation, especially…

battle, Cortes managed to defeat the Aztecs in less than two years, making it one of the greatest military campaigns in history. Hernan Cortes was an ambitious and calculating Spanish conquistador who in 1519, set sail from Cuba at the request of Diego Velazquez, the governor of Cuba for Mexico as part of the expansion of the Spanish empire. He was also intent to spread Christianity among the indigenous people of this unexplored and mysterious part of the world.…

Rouben Mamoulian’s Blood and Sand most closely resembles The Adventures of Robin Hood’s style of different rules for the discrete phases of the film and assertive color design. The defining rule for the beginning of Blood and Sand is restraint: setting Juan Gallardo apart from his world through color. The first shot tracks from a poster of a matador, to a wall-mounted bull’s head, finally resting on a wide-awake Juan. This pithy sequence tells the audience everything about Juan’s vision of…

As conqueror of the Aztec Empire in Mexico, explorer of Guatemala and Honduras, and leader of the first expeditions to California, Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés contributed significantly to the establishment of European domination in America. More particularly we see his contribution to Spanish prominence in both Central and South America. His conquests helped shape the origins and history of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Spaniards initially occupied the New World in order to…

The picture “Las Meninas” which was created by Diego Velázquez is a well-known work of art, and for good reason. It’s considered one of the relatively few masterpieces due to both the complexity and the quality of the art. The artist may have known the people and characters he is representing within the painting, and the room used may also have been a known location to the artist. The painting uses distinct differences in value to bring focus to certain points. Emphasis seems to be on the…

Tourism is one of the largest growing industries in the world due to globalization. The term tourism was first coined by Thomas Cook to explain travel by the European Railway, which marked the beginning of modern tourism. Travel has become an easily accessible and relatively affordable mode of transportation for the sole purpose of recreation and entertainment. Using the lens of anthropology, numerous ethnographers have addressed questions regarding our global state. In the plethora of new…

island immediately. Therefore, Cortés equally sought the value of Velasquez spirit and mimicked the desire of leadership. The fallout of Cortés and Velasquez can be told with many versions. Cortés’s refusal of marriage to a sister of the wife of Diego Velasquez landed him exiled from the land he had helped establish. Hernando was incarcerated and placed on a ship back to Spain under the order of Governor Velasquez. Following multiple escapes attempts and plans, the order of peace was given…

Introduction After the reformation of religious and scientific revolution, European started emphasizing science and rationality, always holding a skeptical attitude to doubt everything and challenge the authority. The most influential German philosopher, Leibniz Voltaire, broke through the past conservative, repressive pattern of the society, highlighting individuality and freedom of speech. Baroque was breed under such convergence of conservative and freedom. Baroque period refers to 17th…

After 54 years without any diplomatic relationship between Cuba and the United States, Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro started to relieve the tension between these two countries in 2015. Cuba, an island in Caribbean, is inhabited by 11 million people and occupies 42,804 square miles. Locating at the entrance to the gulf of Mexico, Cuba separates the east from the west and the developed north form the undeveloped south. Cuba was one of the last American colonies to achieve independence…