Iconography

great oppression and violent nature disasters in the present day, Louisiana remains strong. Although there are clips of Louisiana’s cultured city, New Orleans, in “Hold Up” and her various interludes, that is not the sole setting of the visual iconography. Beyoncé incorporates visual glimpses of places such as parking garages in “Don’t Hurt Yourself” and backwoods in “Sorry” along with swamplands and plantations to go along with the tale of an African American’s life in America. Beyoncé uses…

and warfare. She is sometimes compared to be a wiser and less blood thirsty version of Ares, the god of war. The two glaring features of Ernesto Gazzeri’s statue are the warlike helmet and the flaunting of physical features. Based on the lack of iconography…

It is no different in Copan as we find one of the finest, most intact examples of Early Classic Maya architecture, The Rosalila Temple. This paper will discuss the Rosalila’s iconography and how its preserved architectural expression conveys a complex cosmological message. It sets itself as the heart of Copan and the Cosmos. We will see how this temple not only emphasizes the Sun God, K’innich Ahau but also displays the spiritual…

are executed. In my previous paper on the Primavera I saw how Zirpolo could view the painting in a feminist style. With both of the articles that I am writing about in this articles there is a connection between a series of documents as well as iconography. While it is interesting to see two separate viewpoints, I think it is as interesting to see how two different people compare using the same resources. Both “Talking with Goddesses: Ovid’s Fasti and Botticelli’ Primavera” by Charles Burroughs…

kilometers north from the larger site of Yaxchilan, under which Bonampak may have been a dependency. The site dates to about AD 790 and is home to one of the few extant and complete murals of the Maya Classic Period. Bonampak’s architecture, art, iconography, and epigraphy are an important resource for understanding Maya society in the Classic Period by presenting a historical narrative of the lives of the Maya elite, documenting their ceremonial life, warfare, and courtly rituals. Bonampak is…

1:1--- After considering the four roles of the artist that author Henry Sayre notes; I believe that the most important role for Andy Warhol 1963 is to make a visual record of the people, places and events or their time and place. I believe that Warhol was making a records of a specific time in the events of May 1963 Birmingham, Alabama when the police employee dog to attacks and fires hoses against the demonstrators led by martin Luther King Jr. I believe he used the red, white and blue colors…

The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck is an oil painting that was transferred from wood, panel, to a canvas. It was completed between 1434 and 1436 and it currently resides in the National Gallery of Art in D.C., where I visited it. It is believed by experts that this painting is part of a triptych, a work of art that is divided into three sections that are together and have artwork in both the inside and outside, although there has been no actual evidence that proves it. The painting is very complex…

make the setting appear to be in more divine location rather than on earth, but as we look towards the focal point we can pinpoint the most apparent difference - the portrayal of the Virgin Mary. Cimabue closely follows the traditional Byzantine iconography…

A well-known scholar of the Renaissance period, Charles Dempsey has written an engaging article on the various sources of Botticelli’s Primavera. Once again, this article begins by discussing the individual identities of the figures represented, with particular reference to their role as deities and personification of the spring. According to Dempsey, the painting can be read as the stages of the season, with distinct attributes as well as a collective identity. The breakdown of the months of…

I chose to write a compare and contrast for my final on Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” during the period of Venetian Renaissance and Romantic artist Francisco Goya’s “The Nude Maja”. My major is fashion design, so I was drawn to write about these works of art because these two paintings depicted both females’ sensuality which is probably the most popular subject matter in the western art history for centuries. These two works are particularly important because the “Venus of Urbino” is most often…