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and two workmen crossing a bridge. It is said that if you look closely at the farthest bridge in the background there are also two African Americans fishing. Like many other wealthy Florentines, Filippo Strozzi owned at least one African slave (“Madonna and Child”). Filippino Lippi also uses the technique of atmospheric perspective, a technique of rendering depth or distance in painting by modifying the tone or hue. There appears to be mountains in the distance as well as a building. I loved the…

appeal has always been the key to success. Sex sells and the musicians who have taken advantage of their sexuality and chosen to portray themselves in an unconventional manner are the ones who have really stood out over the years, including Elvis, Madonna, and even Miley Cyrus. The 1950s introduced America to a new style of music called hokum blues that featured black artists who used double entendres in their lyrics (Covach, Flory 70). Examples include Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog” and Big…

TV INFLUENCES- Fifty Years of Fashion by Valerie Steele p.118- Yuppie culture may have helped to be defined by popular TV shows such as Dynasty, a popular obsession and 1980s nighttime TV series. End paraphrase. The show garnered worldwide popularity, coinciding with the increased demand of cable within the households in Western culture. The show exhibited the lifestyle of the wealthy, wearing luxurious designer garments, perhaps responsible for furthering the ‘wealthy’ appearance trend of the…

For a long years, many artist have been creating, looking for, criticizing, and enjoying art. A lot of artist have been famous by their art, like Vincent Van Gogh or Leonardo da Vinci. And now I’m going to introduce 3 artists, which are Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Piranesi, and Dominique Ingres and explain 3 arts from each artist. First artist is Sandro Botticelli. Who is Sandro Botticelli? He was a famous Italian Painter on the early renaissance. Renaissance is the art that influence by…

nothing out of control in his pencil strokes. But, in these drawings you see other make-ups or layouts within them. In particular, in “Mother and the Child” Michelangelo was moving the legs of the infant , and the the placings of the extremities of the Madonna. These changing compositions key in to the fact that he either wasn't happy with one choice or could not decide on which one to choose. Neither composition really having more emphasis on which choice, or a final chosen one. The chiseled…

Sexual relationships are highlighted in the stories. The Decameron is expressed on salacity of women. For example, in the first story on the Third Day , Masetto, who hears that there is a job as an orchardman in an abbey.Masetto learning that a part of the job's responsibility is to satisfy the priestesses of the abbey sexually, acts as if he is deaf for cheating the abbess ,so that she employs him and he foolishly believes that his lust is more than the lust of all the abbey filled with…

cable was “Video Killed the Radio Star.” Teens and adults alike loved to watch the music videos of their favorite artists and started dressing like the cutting edge fashion shown in the videos. MTV showcased many talented artists, like Madonna and Michael Jackson. Madonna had a great influence on the way girls dressed. Her image influenced people to be scandalous, and shameless and most teenage girls idolized her. Michael Jackson was named “The King of Style”. He wore leather jackets, a single…

The term was coined by Sigmund Freud and refers to a common male view of women in which they are considered to be either a “virgin/madonna” or a “whore”, but nothing in between. The virgin figure is sometimes, but not always, a literal virgin, she is the woman who is faithful to her man, and has wifely and motherly qualities such as being submissive, passive, compassionate and caring…

Some differences took place between 1970's and 1980's music. An alteration has needed to embed some new genre. The rock or merely rock music is a contemporary musical genre aimed to encompass each of the various derivative genres of rock and roll. Usually interpreted, among many other instruments are added occasionally, with guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of the genre also use keyboard instruments, for example, saxophone, piano, Synthesizers. This platform usually has a strong obstacle,…

Rinaldo’s wishes to have her summoned to her death because of it leads to a court trial in which Madonna is honest and admits to her affair. Madonna argues “ask my husband whether or not I have ever refused, whenever and however many times he wished, to yield my entire body to him” (Boccaccio, 464). This statement similarly explains how women were portrayed as inferior to…