monuments program. “Who cares about art?” Lt. Frank Stokes says instinctively as he attempts to persuade Franklin Roosevelt to allow him to take a group of soldiers into war-torn Europe to protect and recover priceless works of art‚ including the van Eyck brothers’ Ghent Altarpiece and Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child‚ from the escaping Nazis. Hitler took little concern for human lives but fairly a lot for art; he planned to take the whole of Europe’s
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Interpreting Multiple Interpretations Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Double Portrait is a painting that has intrigued viewers and scholars for centuries. Many scholars have contemplated the identity of the two sitters as well as the symbolism related to everything else in the room. Compared to Van Eyck’s other works‚ the delicate and detailed paintings appear to share a common thread of painting a scene that contains many items that would make it more realistic of a setting. The scene depicted seems likely
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The Annunciation in Santa Croce is the first work to reflect Donatello’s new tendencies following his stay in Rome. "It was put near the altar of the Cavalcanti Chapel. For this he made an ornament in the grotesque style‚ with a base of varied and intertwined work‚ surmounted by a quartercircle‚ and with six putti; these garlanded putti have their arms round each other as if they are afraid of the height and are trying to steady themselves. Donatello’s ingenuity and skill are specially apparent
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"Of all religious subjects‚ that of the Annunciation is closest to the artist as a Christian. The subject is described only by Luke‚ patron saint of painters‚ who was popularly believed to have been a master of their craft as well as a physician."1 Flemish painting was founded in the Low Countries at the start of the fifteenth century. The Low Countries‚ consisting of what is now Belgium and Holland‚ as well as the provinces of Artois and Hainault‚ and the cities of Arras and Cambrai.2 "No
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Homework Assignment – Week 2 Chapter 3 1. Write down the formula that is used to calculate the yield to maturity on a 20-year 10% coupon bond with $1‚000 face value that sells for $2‚000. Assume yearly coupons. $2000 $100/(1 i) $100/(1 i)2 $100/(1 i)20 $1000/(1 i)20 2. If there is a decline in interest rates‚ which would you rather be holding‚ long-term bonds or short-term bonds? Why? Which type of bond has the greater interest-rate risk? You would rather be holding
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In my own definition‚ fragmentary realism is pieces of artworks put together to tell a story. Jan Van Eyck did the artwork that was described in lecture that display fragmentary realism and it is Called Ghent Altarpiece painted in 1432. There are 12 different pictures grouped together to make a story in his work. In the upper center of the painting there is God the Father‚ Jesus on his left hand side and Mary the mother of Christ seated at his right hand side. At the upper end of the painting there
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In your own words‚ explain how Donatello has told the story of The Annunciation in sculpture and why contemporaries were so impressed with his achievement. Donatello is considered to be one of the most influential artists of the 15th century. A member of the innovative group of painters‚ architects and sculptors that revolutionised art in Florence at the beginning of the 15th century‚ he succeeded in becoming perhaps the most successful in his field due to his understanding of the
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the impressionists. A most notable work of art from the tour was “The Annunciation” by Master of the Retable of the Reyes Católicos. This oil on wood panel painting was created in the late 1500s‚ during the High Renaissance period of the art historical cannon. It portrays the biblical event found in the Gospel of Luke in which the archangel Gabriel announces to Mary that she is pregnant with Jesus‚ the son of God. “The Annunciation” is a religious painting and is an example of the many great works of
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Fra Lippo Lippi Introduction Fra Lippo Lippi " is probably one of the " lyrics with more music and painting " mentioned by Robert Browning in a letter to Milsand of February‚ 1853. In April of the same year‚ Elizabeth Barrett describes him engaged in " digging at Vasari "‚ whose Le Vite de ’ Pittori was probably the main source for the poem and many others about Italian painting. " Fra Lippo Lippi " has always been one of the best known and most famous poems of Browning‚ for several
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Symbolism and the Multiple Meanings in Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding Portrait Throughout the Renaissance‚ many talented artists tried to express deep symbolism in their paintings‚ but no one came close to the ability of Jan Van Eyck. His paintings were so accurate and realistic that it was necessary for him to paint his miniaturists with a single strand of hair‚ on a brush. Jan’s Arnolfini Wedding Portrait (1434) is so photo-realistic that it has been debated for decades of it’s legality of
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