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It survives in dozens of eyewitness accounts - from Muslim, Greek, and Latin perspectives-as well as printed pamphlets ponderous histories, and vivid woodcuts.” It’s interesting to note, the historical importance of the region and the significance of Turkey in current world-affairs. For instance, the country is currently involved in the NATO backed fighting in Syria, a once Sunni nation and very delicate…

The people of Europe responded to the Black Death with three types of fear. They isolated themselves from the sickness, tried to explain the sickness, and/or blamed someone for the plague. Avoiding the sickness seemed to be the most common reaction to the fear of the plague. Giovanni Boccaccio had said in the introduction to The Decameron “almost all of them adopted the same cruel policy, which was entirely avoid the sick and everything belonging to them.” He had said this about those who…

Raphael's famous painting The School of Athens is the most praised bits of artwork from the age of the Renaissance. The fresco was painted in the High Renaissance of Humanism and is the perfect encapsulation of the established classical spirit. Raphael's "School of Athens" is considered by numerous modern art historians to be irrefutably the masterpiece of the Renaissance. The school of Athens symbolizes the hypothesis that set the support for the modern thinking. In the three stories,…

Hiroshige, and started creating his oil painting. This makes his piece a form of Japonisme, as this means the influence of Japanese art on Western art (“Japonisme”). Van Gogh’s recreation slightly differs from Hiroshiges by using a canvas instead of woodcut, brighter colors, and brush strokes. To keep the standard canvas size, Gogh left a border and filled it with Japanese calligraphic figures that he got from other prints.…

The Renaissance was an age of Rebirth, from what leads to many different time periods such as The Scientific Revolution, and the Period of Exploration. The Renaissance was an era of rebirth specifically from the Middle Ages. The Scientific Revolution was a change in the ways of the knowledge of science and the Period of Exploration was a time period of adventure and finding new regions. During the Renaissance, there were a lot of significant changes resulting from this time period such as the…

Could a period that lasted for 300 years change a continent’s history forever? If yes, how? Developed in Italy, around the year 1350 to 1700, Europe fell into a period of realizing changes, intellectual excitement, art and literature blossomed, and groundbreaking scientific advanced. During this time, people in Europe experienced new interests, and this led them to identify another part of them. Peasants became less dependent, serfs gained their freedom, merchants and banker increased, literacy…

moved from Germany to Basle, Switzerland. Basle was an influential city and was one of Europe’s top book producers, providing the young artist with many opportunities including a connection to humanist Erasmus. Soon, he became successful in selling woodcuts, engravings, and illustrations for bibles. By 1526, religious events from the Reformation disrupted Holbein’s career. After evangelical preachers criticized religious images for becoming the main focus instead of devotion, art focusing on…

of his family, born July 10, 1914 in Riga, Latvia. Being born in a Lithuanian family, the family returned to Lithuania in 1918. Telesforas entered the Kaunas Art School after being encouraged by his art teacher in grade school. Telesforas studied woodcuts in Japanese when he took his brief visit to Paris. Telesforas worked in art his whole life after school, beginning with his part time job as an artist at Kaunas Textile Company. Later in 1942 he became a teacher at Vilnius Art Academy as well…

and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long-established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us." ~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from a woodcut broadsheet that accompanied the Die Brücke exhibition at the Seifert factory, Dresden, 1906 German Expressionists are artists who are apart of German Expressionism. German Expressionism reached its peak in the 1920’s; “it was a part of early…

Tessellations , Tessellations are a arrangement of shapes closely fitted together , especially of polygons in a repeated patterns without gaps or overlapping . They make really pretty designs if you do it right . Another word for Tessellations is “tiling”.Tessellations are catching to the eye and they are found in the regular everyday patterns such as , bathroom floors , backsplashes , turtle shells , honeycombs, raspberries, quilts and fish . “Tessellations are also widely used in the design of…