Engraving

Imagine it’s 1774 and you just found out that King George III has passed a new law to punish everyone for the 150 people who dumped tea in the harbor, and all the town meetings are canceled for the next six weeks! This act was called the Coercive Act, the King came off as being a bit dramatic because it’s not like all of Boston dumped tea in the harbor, only a small portion so it’s like getting punished for something a sibling or other family member did which most people tend to find unfair.…

form of first and third paintings are both from western country, and the second and the fouth painting is the original traditional Chinese painting. To use the different form to illustrated the painting, combine the mutiply cultures. The copper engraving of “The Battle of Oroi-jalatu” is hard to make, so it need detailed lines to construct a three-dimensional space. It is different with the traditional Chinese paiting, the use of the line is more complicatedand reified.The painting in “Painting…

The Knight & Heroism Often when we think of the Middle Ages, we think of the medieval knights that existed in that era. These knights often followed the Code of Chivalry. The Code of Chivalry was an important aspect of knighthood. “The Code of Chivalry dictated that a Knight should be brave and fearless in battle, but would also exhibit cultured knightly qualities showing themselves to be devout, loyal, courteous and generous” (Medieval Life and Times). A knight was expected to follow this…

they were not betrothed to. Their love would be denied as spiritual love, but declared as the more “earthly” love John Donne writes about. Denying their society’s rules and being with their love would earn them a place on Peter Bruegel the Elder’s engraving of Lust. They would be portrayed as their emotion getting the better of them leading them into trouble. Not only would Hermia and Thisby encounter problems after refusing a patriarchal system, Titania does as…

An engraving by famous English engraver H.B. Hall in 1778 titled “Valley Forge” depicts American revolutionaries in the dead of winter. Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington stand stoically above their soldiers, who are huddled next to a small fire in the dead of winter. It is the Revolutionary War, which started three years prior, in 1775, and won’t end for another five, in 1783. All the soldiers depicted in the engraving may have their own unique definition…

As far as his favorite mediums goes, his most used were paintings, copper engravings, and woodcuts. When it came to his favorite subject matter, Albrecht had a large range from portraits, self-portraits, altarpieces, and a wide variety of religious pieces. In an article about one of Albrecht’s most popular paintings, Four Apostles…

The Africans in the engraving are wearing minimal or no clothes; with slaves digging and others slaves running to dump buckets of sand. The image depicts the African slaves as being the inferior to the European soldier. Later, in 1796, the art work called Group of Negros,…

AGRIPPA L.F. COS TERTIUM FECIT. This means Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, three time consul, made this. Below the main engraving is a more compact one that indicates the restorations made to the building which were made by Septimius Severus and Caracalla in 202 CE. The Exterior of the Pantheon consists of two important and crucial parts, the porch which is very Classical Greek…

several people were dead and many were wounded. After the tragic event, Paul Revere made an engraving that was cycled throughout the thirteen colonies. The engraving shows British soldiers firing into a group of what is presumed innocent Bostonians. This engraving sparked lots of anger within the colonies, as the colonists now saw British soldiers as bloodthirsty, ruthless murderers. Looking back, the engraving was biased to some degree, but the message still was clear. Revere wanted to show the…

minutes trying to decipher the artistry and imagine how long it took to engrave something so beautiful thousands of years ago. The vividness of what looks to be tapestry like engraving around the cylinder and on the top looked effortless. The story I read depicted that of the Trojan War from Homer's Iliad. Friezes (the engravings) as they refer to seemed life like and can be distinguished extremely easily. At the base the cylinder are three engraved legs. The legs look like talons from a bird…