Notre Dame de Paris

Renaissance music had a chordal quality with pleasing harmonies made up of thirds and sixths, creating a sweet sound. Renaissance music was very consonant and there was very little dissonance. The rhythm was regular and the pulse was not emphasized. Josquin des Prez’s “Ave Maria” is a representative piece of the Renaissance. It has imitative polyphony and homophony, there are separate vocal parts to the piece which interact with each other sweetly. The sweet harmonies are an example of…

Claude Monet learned how to paint and draw from other artists. He took lessons from Eugéne Boudin while he was young. Although they were born in the same place, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet were born in different places. Claude Monet was born in Paris, France and Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. Vincent van Gogh did not start painting until he was older, while he was a child he was serious and silent. Claude Monet started painting young and went to an art school, even…

Fashion and Architecture in the Middle Ages The era of knights in shining armor and princesses living in castles, or better known as the middle ages, a transitional period, took place between 300-1500 A.D. This era has been divided into different sub periods: The Byzantine Empire or The Early Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages. Preceding the middle ages was the fall of the Roman Empire, which led to the Holy Wars then causing a major shift in religion (Phyllis and Eurbank). Europeans began to…

When you head off to college, what are some of items that your parents provide for you? Go ahead think about it. Most students will say money, or forgotten possessions, or even the illustrious “gourmet” box of home cooked meals, yum. But when we compare the aspects of universities in the Middle Ages up to the Renaissance in terms of college life, we find that the lives of students in our age were more or less alike and different. Although the universities of the Middle Ages were restricted to…

In present-day times, "Goth" has been used to describe a unique subculture with its own style of music, fashion, and aesthetic. The dark, often gloomy Goth symbolism was influenced by Gothic fiction, particularly horror movies. Forget the association of the word "Gothic" to dark, ghostly pale people wearing black lipstick and fishnets. The original Gothic style was actually developed to bring happiness into people 's lives, and especially into their churches. Gothic style developed in Europe…

Since the 1890’s when film photography was first introduced, there have been a plethora of various film genres to surface and make their heydays. Each individual genre suited to meet the emotional needs of a specific type of person. As times changed so did the genres, but one thing stayed constant, the need for new films never died out. For the many centuries that followed the invention of film photography, people all around the world have gone to see films as a form of entertainment. Going to…

PB World Themes IA Did Napoleon betray the French revolution or further its ideals? Andrey Mertvyy PB World Themes 10 Mrs. Flak 3.16.16 1,542 Identification and Evaluation: This investigation will answer the question; did Napoleon Bonaparte betray the French Revolution or further its ideals? The French Revolution was an important part of European history, where many different people used the chaos of the revolutionary phase to try and gain control for themselves and many…

When planning a trip to Paris, there are certain expectations as to where you’re likely to go. The Eiffel Tower is at the tip-top of this very long list. Other items would include Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, possibly Versailles if you want to explore a bit. But one of the biggest draws is the magnificence of the Musée de Louvre. The Louvre is awe-inspiring, gorgeous, and gigantic. One tidbit I gathered on the boat ride through the Seine was that it was about a kilometer…

In the 1800’s, the word “romance” was not used as it is today. The American Scholar A.O. Lovejoy once observed that the word 'romantic ' has come to mean so many things that, by itself, it means nothing at all. Contradictory to the previous statement, F.L. Lucas counted 11,396 definitions of the word, and synonymous usage for ‘romantic’ show that it is perhaps the most remarkable example of a term that can mean many things in accordance to personal and individual needs (Introduction to…