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Peinture flamande (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)
En 1639, Van Dyck épouse une aristocrate angla ise, Mary Ruthven . Il meurt peu après la naissance de sa fille. • Ses thèmes -A ses débuts , Van Dyck réalise des compositions religieuses ou mythologiques dans la veine de Rubens . Mais ce sont ses portraits de monarques et d 'aristocrates dans le plus pur style baroque qui feront sa gloire. • Ses œuvres les plus célèbres - -La Princesse Mary Stuart et Je Prince Wtlliam d'Orange , 1632 (Rijksmuseum...
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Renaissance, musique de la - musique.
Cette évolution eut un effet considérable sur le nombre d'emplois offert aux musiciens de talent et sur leur statut dans le monde de l'art. Ils furent en mesure de revendiquer un statut et d'obtenir des avantages, notamment financiers (parfois énormes), qui leur permirent de s'élever au-dessus du statut d'artisans. Des compositeurs comme Josquin des Prés ou, plus tard, Adrian Willaert (chef de musique de la basilique Saint-Marc, à Venise, entre 1527 et 1562) devinrent des « dieux de la musique »...
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Renaissance, musique de la
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Renaissance, musique de la, musique européenne élaborée pendant la Renaissance.
Cette évolution eut un effet considérable sur le nombre d'emplois offert aux musiciens de talent et sur leur statut dans le monde de l'art. Ils furent en mesure de revendiquer un statut et d'obtenir des avantages, notamment financiers (parfois énormes), qui leur permirent de s'élever au-dessus du statut d'artisans. Des compositeurs comme Josquin des Prés ou, plus tard, Adrian Willaert (chef de musique de la basilique Saint-Marc, à Venise, entre 1527 et 1562) devinrent des « dieux de la musique »...
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caravagisme - peinture.
persévèrent qu’un temps dans le sillage du maître italien. L’influence caravagesque est également manifeste chez le Lorrain Georges de La Tour. L’introduction de son emploi original du clair-obscur est peut-être due à un séjour en Italie — bien que sa présence n’y ait pas été attestée — ou à la fréquentation d’artistes flamands imprégnés de l’œuvre du maître, voire tout simplement à la découverte d’une œuvre comme l’Annonciation du Caravage (conservée à l’époque en la cathédrale de Nancy). 5....
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Native American Literature
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Leslie Marmon Silko
Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko is perhaps best known for her first novel, Ceremony (1977), a coming-of-age
story about a young man of mixed Native American and white ancestry.
SequoyahNative Americans did not use a complex written language before the immigration of Europeans to the Americas. In theearly 1820s the Cherokee leader Sequoyah developed an alphabet and written language for his native tongue. ManyCherokee learned the new written language readily, and in 1828 they published the first Native American newspaper,written in both Cherokee and English.THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Before Native Americans came into contact with Europeans, many tribes supplemented the spoken...
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Ethnic Groups in Canada - Canadian History.
Ontario and the Atlantic provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island). Most of the Irish live in rural areas of NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, and Québec. The Welsh are by far the smallest group among the British Canadians, and they have also settled inthe Atlantic provinces and Ontario. B Culture The language spoken by British Canadians is mostly English, but some Welsh speak their own Celtic language and some Scots, Gae...
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British Empire .
B1 The Seven Years’ War During the Seven Years’ War in Europe (1756-1763), Britain made large imperial gains at the expense of France. The North American segment of the Seven Years’ Warwas known as the French and Indian War. It was launched by the British against French possessions in North America in 1754, and in 1758 the British captured theFrench fortress of Louisbourg, which gave them access to French territory in the St. Lawrence Valley. In the following year Québec was captured, marking t...
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History of United States Business.
their lives. But the rewards were worth it; a few lucrative voyages and a merchant could buy a townhouse, a carriage, perhaps a summer retreat. The merchant couldclimb the social ladder and circulate among the powerful in this highly materialistic society. This prospect of riches and the honor that accompanied them made Americancolonists willing to engage in highly speculative enterprises, such as shipping flour to the West Indies or importing goods from England by the thousands without beingcer...
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History of Astronomy - astronomy.
Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead at noon. On the same date and time in Alexandria, Egypt, the Sun was about 7 degrees south of zenith. With simple geometryand knowledge of the distance between the two cities, he estimated the circumference of the Earth to be 250,000 stadia. (The stadium was a unit of length, derivedfrom the length of the racetrack in an ancient Greek stadium. We have an approximate idea of how big an ancient Greek stadium was, and based on that approximationEratosthenes was...
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Native Americans of North America.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
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Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...