picked are “Pieta” by Titian and “Lamentation” by Giotto Di Bondone. Titian was born in Cadore, Italy in 1485 and died in 1576. He was an Italian painter during the Renaissance who painted works for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Pope Paul III, and King Philip II of Spain. Titian was a leading Italian painter that everyone admired. Most of Titian’s portraits displayed fresco, equally skillful landscape backgrounds, mythological, and religious subjects. His interest in color is what made him stand…
trade and wampum together. in 1637, the settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts attacked a Pequot village. the Pequot resistance was over at the end of 1637 King Philip’s War- In 1657, three Wampanoag indians were executed and their leader King Philip was almost arrested for the death of a Christian Indian. Later, more Wampanoags were shot for robbery and this started the war. The Indians invaded New England and killed a twentieth of the colonists but England cut off food to them and sold…
In England during the 1500s, there had been only male monarchs and the females were only given the title of being Queen through marriage. However, in 1135 when Henry I had died, a female had the first chance to become Queen. Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I was going to be Queen of England, “not in the conventional sense of a king’s wife, but in the unprecedented form of a female king” (Castor, 2010). However, Matilda lost the crown of England to King Henry I’s nephew Stephen because he was…
Protestants. This kind of extreme hatred of Protestants which is propagated by individuals such as John Foxe truly garners Mary the title of Bloody Mary. Mary only further exacerbates the anxiety of the people by continuing to be married to Philip of Spain a Catholic noble who is so disliked by the people of England that a rebellion started just to prevent their marriage years earlier. In the eyes of the people Mary is both trying to stamp out Protestantism, and is bringing the country under a…
and grape products for grain. Since they were located on the coast, Greece had a strategic point for trade and cultural diffusion. Athens became a rich commercial center and Greeks had a money system. They had city-states with identities and cultures. They were considerably independent and were always competing with each other. Sparta was militaristic and agricultural while Athens was cultural, political, and commercial. In Sparta, women had more rights than in other areas. They had adult male…
Theory of Quality Philip B. Crosby stated that: There has never been a case where the cost of repairing a bad product was cheaper than doing it right the first time. He established Philip Crosby Associates in 1979 to develop and offer training programmes and published his first book 'Quality is Free', which sold about one million copies. The essence of Crosby's quality theory is embodied in what he called the 'Absolute of Quality Management and the Basic Elements of Improvements'. Philip B.…
Decreased cost iii. Improved productivity iv. Increased market share v. Stay in business vi. Provide more jobs and more jobs W. E. Deming (1986) in his book 'Out of the Crisis' offered fourteen key principles for transforming business effectiveness - among which included:…
Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…