67 résultats pour "corbie"
- 1636 Reprise de Corbie.
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- Anschaire (saint) Bénédictin français (près de Corbie, 801 - Brême, 865).
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Arthurian Legend
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King Arthur
Legend and lore surround the life of Arthur, a medieval king of the Britons.
Merlin and ArthurIn the tales of Arthurian legend, Merlin is an aged magician who helps bring King Arthur to power. Some authors alsodescribe Merlin as the young king’s tutor.Corbis Arthur is conceived when King Uther Pendragon falls in love with a married woman, Ygraine, and arranges for the magician Merlin to transform him into the likeness ofYgraine's husband. The husband, Gorlois, dies in battle, and Arthur's parents marry soon thereafter. Arthur Receiving ExcaliburAccording to legend, soon...
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Hessen.
Orten ist von Wiesen und Wäldern geprägt und ein reizvolles Ausflugsziel.Bob Krist/Corbis Über den Kellerwald, den Vogelsberg und die Rhön verläuft die Wasserscheide zwischen dem hessischen Einzugsgebiet der Weser und dem des Rheins. Den Norden undOsten entwässern vor allem Fulda, Werra, Eder und Weser, den Süden und Westen Rhein, Main, Lahn und Nidda. Das Klima wird durch den Gegensatz der Beckengebiete und der Bergländer bestimmt. Klimabegünstigt ist die Hessische Senke, die wärmer und nieders...
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Iliad
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The Abduction of Helen
The Trojan War began with the abduction of Helen, the beautiful wife of the king of Sparta, by the Trojan prince Paris.
Ajax Defends Greek ShipsThe Greek hero Ajax wields his spear in defense of Greek ships as Trojan warriors try to set the wooden vessels on firewith their torches. This encounter, shown in a late-18th-century illustration, occurs in Book 15 of the Iliad, an epicattributed to Greek poet Homer that recounts events from the Trojan War.Corbis Paris offers to fight a duel with Menelaus to settle the conflict. After an exchange of blows, Paris’s protector, the goddess Aphrodite, intervenes to save him....
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Latin American Architecture
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Oldest Cathedral in the Western Hemisphere
The oldest cathedral in the Western hemisphere is the Cathedral of Santa Maria la Menor, constructed between 1512 and
1541 in Santo Domingo, now the capitol of the Dominican Republic.
Colonial FortressThe imposing fortress of San Felipe de Barajas, in the foreground, was built in the mid-17th century to defend the colonialport settlement of Cartagena. Modern day Cartagena, Colombia, can be seen in the background.Dave G. Houser/Post-Houserstock/Corbis The use of architecture and urban planning as tools of European conquest is a recurrent theme in Latin American history. King Philip II of Spain ordered town plannersto use a grid or checkerboard plan for the layout of new towns...
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Film Noir
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Lynch's Blue Velvet
The motion picture Blue Velvet (1986) brought wide acclaim to American director David Lynch.
Double IndemnityBarbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray are featured in Double Indemnity (1944), a story of lust and greed in the film noirtradition, directed by Billy Wilder. The film’s events are related in flashbacks by protagonist Walter Neff (MacMurray), whomakes a dying confession about a plot to kill a man for his insurance money.Bettmann/Corbis Another common aspect of film noir is the femme fatale, a seductive woman who lures the protagonist into actions that ultimately lead to his downfall...
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Native American Art
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Native American Art, the visual works crafted by indigenous people of North America, starting after their arrival on the continent thousands of years ago and continuing
until the present.
artists in the Ohio area cut delicate flat forms from sheets of mica in the shape of birds, human figures, and large hands. They also carved quite natural-looking birdsand animals on stone platform pipes. These figures sat on the pipe’s flat base, or platform, and on some pipes they were part of the pipe bowl. Prominent people ofthese cultures were buried with a wealth of ornaments, such as jewelry of shells and copper, and headdresses elaborated with animal forms. The period of Mississippian cu...
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Indian Art and Architecture
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Art on the Indian Subcontinent
This map highlights places in India and Pakistan where prominent examples of Indian art and architecture have been
produced.
Sun Temple of KonarakThis 13th-century relief depicting a wheel of the chariot of Indian sun god Surya is situated in the Konarak temple. Thetemple, dedicated to Surya, is situated at Puri in the Gulf of Bengal.Keren Su/Corbis The arts of India expressed in architecture, sculpture, painting, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, and textiles, were spread throughout the Far East with the diffusion ofBuddhism and Hinduism and exercised a strong influence on the arts of China, Japan, Myanmar (formerly known...
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Children's Literature
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Kate Greenaway's May Day
The delicate skill and graceful simplicity of English artist Kate Greenaway's illustrations delighted children and impressed
thinkers, including art critic John Ruskin.
With the development of vernacular literature, particularly after the invention of printing, more children's books appeared. The publications of the first English printer,William Caxton, included the Book of Curtesye (1477), a collection of rhymes that sets forth rules of conduct for a “goodly chylde.” Eight years later Caxton printed Le Morte d'Arthur (1469-1470; The Death of Arthur ) by English translator and compiler Sir Thomas Malory, which became the basis for later treatments of the A...
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Greek Mythology
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Temple of Apollo at Didyma
The Greeks built the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey (about 300 bc).
A1 The Creation of the Gods According to Greek myths about creation, the god Chaos (Greek for “Gaping Void”) was the foundation of all things. From Chaos came Gaea (“Earth”); the bottomlessdepth of the underworld, known as Tartarus; and Eros (“Love”). Eros, the god of love, was needed to draw divinities together so they might produce offspring. Chaosproduced Night, while Gaea first bore Uranus, the god of the heavens, and after him produced the mountains, sea, and gods known as Titans. The Tita...
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Jazz
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Joshua Redman
Saxophonist Joshua Redman, a graduate of Harvard University, became a fast-rising star in jazz in the 1990s.
performed a highly produced, jazz-inspired form of blues that was popular in traveling minstrel shows and vaudeville. Thisexample is from the song “St. Louis Blues,” written by American composer and trumpet player W. C. Handy in 1914 andrecorded by Smith in 1925."St. Louis Blues" performed by Bessie Smith, from The Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Cat.# Riverside RB-005) Riverside Records under master license to Fantasy, Inc. All rightsreserved./Frank DriggsCollection/Archive Photos Jazz is ro...
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Modern Art
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American Gothic
American Gothic was painted by the 20th-century American artist Grant Wood in 1930.
while at the other side a woman in black appears to mourn the end of her participation in the dance. Click on the buttonsto learn more.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. In view of this diversity, it is difficult to define modern art in a way that includes all of 20th-century Western art. For some critics, the most important characteristic ofmodern art is its attempt to make painting and sculpture ends in themselves, thus distinguishing modernism from earlier forms of art that had con...
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protestantisme - religion.
pour financer la construction de la basilique Saint-Pierre à Rome. Moine augustin et professeur de théologie à l’université de Wittenberg, Luther ne se satisfait pas del’enseignement catholique traditionnel sur la question du salut. Il élabore la doctrine de la justification par la grâce divine au travers de la foi. Il juge la foi négligée par unethéologie catholique qui a placé sur le même plan l’efficacité des « bonnes œuvres ». À ses yeux, la vente abusive d’indulgences découle de l’importanc...
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Marruecos - geografía.
17,8 ºC y la nieve cubre los picos de las montañas durante la mayor parte del año. Las precipitaciones en forma de lluvia se producen principalmente durante los meses deinvierno, siendo abundantes en el noroeste y ligeras en el este y sur. La precipitación anual es de 860 mm en Tánger, de 430 mm en Casablanca, de 280 mm en Essaouira yde 130 mm en el Sahara. 2.2 Recursos naturales La agricultura es el principal recurso económico de Marruecos, pero también son significativos sus recursos minerale...
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Angoulême, Festival international de la bande dessinée d' - bande dessinée.
Claire Bretécher Dans la série des Frustrés, parus dans l'hebdomadaire le Nouvel Observateur à partir de 1973, l'auteur de bandes dessinées Claire Bretécher croque avec humour et causticité les travers d'unesociété française, notamment bourgeoise, pétrie de rigidités inavouées, d'hypocrisie et de contradictions : les espoirs nés du vent de liberté soufflé par les événements de 1968 se transformenten effet dans les années 1970 en désillusions, voire en aigreur de ne pouvoir assumer un mode de vie...
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Argentina (república) - geografía.
Lago Argentino, provincia de Santa CruzLos 1.415 km2 de la superficie del lago Argentino, en la imagen aérea, se extienden por el sector suroccidental de la provincia deSanta Cruz. Una parte considerable del mismo, la correspondiente a la de sus brazos y canales, forma parte del Parque nacional LosGlaciares. En ella se localizan algunos de los heleros más impresionantes del mundo, como el Upsala, el Spegazzini, el Ameghino y,sobre todo, el Perito Moreno.Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis Los principale...
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Mythology
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Mythology, the body of myths of a particular culture, and the study and interpretation of such myths.
usually define a myth as a story that has compelling drama and deals with basic elements and assumptions of a culture. Myths explain, for example, how the worldbegan; how humans and animals came into being; how certain customs, gestures, or forms of human activity originated; and how the divine and human worlds interact.Many myths take place at a time before the world as human beings know it came into being. Because myth-making often involves gods, other supernatural beings, andprocesses beyond...
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Asian Theater
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Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.
III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...
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American Literature: Drama
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American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.
American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...
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Theater
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The Art of Theater
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Theater at EpidaurusAncient Greek dramas were performed in open-air theaters like this one in Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed byPolyclitus the Younger in 350 bc. A festival of ancient Greek drama is still held in the summer in this 14,000-seat theater.Roger Wood/Corbis Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; in fact, the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron , meaning 'seeing place.' Throughout the history of world cultures, actors have used...
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Guillaume D’Orange (cycle de)
manuscrits postérieurs, dits « cycli ques » parce qu'ils constituent l'his toire complète d'un hypothétique Guillaume d'Orange et de son lignage. Ce personnage aurait eu pour loin tain modèle historique· un. Guillaume devenu comte de Toulouse, qui, pour s'être illustré dans la tutelle politique du jeune roi Louis, fils de Charlema gne, et dans la défense des frontières pyrénéennes contre les musulmans, serait vite entré...
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histoire, peinture d'
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Géricault, le Radeau de la Méduse
Tout en s'inscrivant dans la lignée des grands tableaux d'histoire de l'école de David, cette oeuvre est unique par son ampleur, l'audace de sa composition et la puissance morbide de ses couleurs.
Fresques romanes de l'église de Saint-Savin Constituant le plus grand ensemble roman français, les exceptionnelles fresques de l'église abbatiale de Saint-Savin sont classées au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco. De par leur iconographie,elles développent les quatre cycles de la pensée chrétienne : biblique, évangélique, hagiographique, apocalyptique.Gian Berto Vanni/Corbis Dès le haut Moyen Âge, les sujets tirés de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament constituent le seul horizon des peintres, qui décl...
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Primatice, le - dessin & gravure.
Le Primatice, la Sainte Famille Francesco Primaticcio, dit le Primatice, la Sainte Famille avec sainte Élisabeth et saint Jean-Baptiste, 1541-1543. Huile sur ardoise, 43,5 × 31 cm. Musée de l’Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg.Alexander Burkatowski/Corbis Artiste prisé et polyvalent, le Primatice est appelé par les membres les plus influents de l’entourage royal pour la décoration de leur propre propriété. Il travaille ainsi dans l’hôtel parisien de la famille de Guise, à l’abbaye de Chaalis pour Hippo...
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anthropologie - anthropologie.
Bronislaw Malinowski Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Les premières grandes théories concernant l’évolution de la civilisation humaine furent formulées au XVIII e siècle par des philosophes des Lumières, tels Turgot et Condorcet. Ces idées, qui à certains égards anticipaient sur la théorie de l’évolution, se heurtaient aux explications bibliques de la Création ainsi qu’au dogme théologique selon lequel les sociétés non-européennes constituaient des vestiges de groupes auxquels la grâce de Dieu...
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Rheinland-Pfalz.
Koblenz am Zusammenfluss von Rhein und MoselSeine Lage an der Konfluenz von Rhein und Mosel, den beiden bedeutendsten Flüssen im Westen Deutschlands, hat Koblenz vieleVorteile gebracht. Seit seiner Gründung im 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. – die Römer errichteten hier zum Schutz des Rhein- undMoselübergangs das Kastell Confluentes – war Koblenz ein bedeutendes Handelszentrum. Am Deutschen Eck, der Landspitze amZusammenfluss von Rhein und Mosel, steht ein monumentales Denkmal Kaiser Wilhelms I. Am recht...
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Madagascar - geografía.
Cascada en MadagascarLos ríos de Madagascar que corren hasta el océano Índico son cortos y rápidos y con frecuencia descienden desde las tierras altas encascadas. En la imagen, una de las cascadas que se pueden encontrar en el Parque nacional Ranomafana.FPG International, LLC Los mayores ríos de Madagascar son: Betsiboka, Tsiribihina, Mangoky y Onilahy; todos ellos nacen en las tierras altas cerca de la costa este y fluyen hacia el oeste hasta elcanal de Mozambique a través de fértiles valles. E...
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Gusano cilíndrico - ciencias de la naturaleza.
Ancylostoma duodenaleEl anquilostoma Ancylostoma duodenale es una especie de nematodo, o gusano cilíndrico, parásito de los seres humanos. Posee en laboca unas placas afiladas con las que se fija al revestimiento del intestino, desde donde succiona sangre para alimentarse,provocando una enfermedad, cuya gravedad es muy variable según el grado de infestación, denominada anquilostomiasis.Lester V. Bergman/Corbis Las filarias son también nematodos parásitos que pueden infectar a la especie humana p...
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Robin Hood
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Robin Hood
The legendary hero Robin Hood is a popular figure from English folklore.
Errol FlynnIn 1938 Australian-born motion-picture actor Errol Flynn won the heart of Maid Marian and defeated his evil foes as RobinHood in The Adventures of Robin Hood.Corbis Some people believe that Robin Hood was an actual person, usually identified as Robert Fitzooth, the earl of Huntington. Others think that Robin was not a real personand that the stories about him developed for historical and cultural reasons. In medieval England, peasant masses struggled to make a meager living while a re...
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Richelieu (Armand Jean du Plessis.
les princes protestants à rendre les biens ecclésiastiques qu'ils avaient sécularisés, Richelieu poussa le roi de Suède, Gustave-Adolphe, dans le conflit et contribua ainsi au déclenchement de la guerre de Trente Ans. Quand celui-ci, après de brillantes victoires, fut tué à Lützen et que les princes protestants furent sur le point de succomber, Richelieu, qui s'était assuré l'alliance de la Hollande, de la Suède, des princes de l'Italie du Nord et le concours de l'armée du duc Bernard de Saxe-We...
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Verdi, Giuseppe - compositeur de musique.
Boris Christoff Le Bulgare Boris Christoff (1919-1993), doté d'une magnifique voix de basse et d'un jeu de scène remarquable, fut l'un des plus grands chanteurs d'opéra de sa génération. Il interprète iciPhilippe II dans Don Carlos de Verdi, rôle qu'il reprit plusieurs fois dans sa carrière, avec un succès jamais démenti.Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Homme de théâtre, Giuseppe Verdi approfondit les relations entre livret et musique et s’inspira des grands classiques shakespeariens comme du dr...
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Achilles
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Thetis Dipping Achilles in the Styx
The sea nymph Thetis is seen dipping her son Achilles in the River Styx to make him immortal.
Priam Reclaims the Body of HectorThe relief sculpture on this ancient Roman sarcophagus, discovered in northwestern Greece, depicts an event fromHomer’s epic poem the Iliad. In this scene Priam, the king of Troy, reclaims the body of his son, Hector, from the Greekwarrior Achilles, who has killed Hector in battle. Hector’s recumbent body is seen in front of a chariot.Chris Hellier/Corbis Achilles fought many battles during the Greeks’ ten-year siege of Troy. When the Mycenaean king Agamemnon sei...
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Cuba.
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Cuba : drapeau et hymne
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Plantation de tabac dans le Pinar del Río (Cuba)Lors de la révolution menée par Fidel Castro à Cuba, en 1959, les propriétaires terriens ont été chassés des grandes plaines du pays.Leurs domaines ont été nationalisés et convertis en plantations de canne à sucre, de café, d'agrumes et de tabac. Cette exploitationde tabac est située dans la vallée de Viñales, dans la région du Pinar del Río, cœur de la culture du tabac cubain.Richard Bickel/Corbis La côte septentrionale est rocheuse et escarpée, à...
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Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
American playwright Arthur Miller began writing plays while a student at the University of Michigan.
devoted his life to the pursuit of “success.” His misguided philosophy has ruined the lives of his wife and two sons. When Loman is too old to travel, he loses his job. In aseries of scenes, brilliantly dramatized by the playwright, Loman relives his experiences. Eventually his mind begins to fail, and he commits suicide. Although Miller generally wrote in a realistic style ( see Realism), much of Death of a Salesman is conveyed expressionistically ( see Expressionism) through Willy Loman’s mi...
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Egyptian Mythology
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Egyptian Mythology, specifically, the religion of ancient Egypt.
PtahThe Egyptian god Ptah was, among other things, patron of the arts and of artisans. He was worshipped at Memphis, theancient capital of Egypt. This statue of the deity dates from the 18th dynasty and is in the Egyptian Museum of Turin,Italy.Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis In addition to those already named, the important divinities included the gods Amon, Thoth, Ptah, Khnemu, and Hapi, and the goddesses Hathor, Mut, Neit, andSekhmet. Their importance increased with the political ascendancy of the lo...
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Rembrandt
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Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch baroque artist, who ranks as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art.
of his collection of art and antiquities, taken before an auction to pay his debts, showed the breadth of Rembrandt's interests: ancient sculpture, Flemish and ItalianRenaissance paintings, Far Eastern art, contemporary Dutch works, weapons, and armor. Unfortunately, the results of the auction—including the sale of hishouse—were disappointing. These problems in no way affected Rembrandt's work; if anything, his artistry increased. Some of the great paintings from this period are The Jewish Brid...
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Puppets
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Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy are characters in an English hand puppet show that first appeared in 1662.
Rod puppets are controlled by rods attached to their limbs, heads, and bodies. Although the traditional rod puppets of Belgium and Sicily are worked from above, likemarionettes, most contemporary rod figures are operated from below. In theaters, rod puppeteers are frequently concealed from view by drapery or stage flats (fabric stretched across frames). On television and in films, rod and hand puppeteers usually hold their figures either above their heads or in front of their faces. In the lat...
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África - geografía.
genetistas, debido a que sus poblaciones de animales salvajes están aisladas de las del resto del país por las paredes del cráter. Éstese localiza dentro de la Zona de Conservación Ngorongoro, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad, que también incluye la gargantade Olduvai, donde se han encontrado restos de algunos de los primeros antepasados del ser humano.Nicholas Parfitt/Tony Stone Images El relieve africano se caracteriza por su horizontalidad debido a la presencia de vastas y onduladas meset...
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Homer
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Homer
According to tradition, the Greek poet Homer is believed to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two great epics of
ancient Greek literature.
The Return of OdysseusAfter the Greek warrior Odysseus returns from the Trojan War to his home in Ithaca, he kills the uninvited and unwantedsuitors of his wife, Penelope, who believed him to be dead. Odysseus’s astonishing skill with the bow convinces Penelopethat he is indeed her long-absent husband. This anonymous engraving is of an unknown date.Corbis The Odyssey narrates the return of the Greek hero Odysseus from the Trojan War. The opening scenes depict the disorder that has arisen in Ody...
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México (república) - geografía.
Las llanuras costeras son en su generalidad zonas bajas, llanas y compuestas por materiales arenosos, aunque en las costas del Pacífico ocasionalmente son interrumpidaspor pequeñas serranías. Baja California, península larga y estrecha que se extiende a lo largo de 1.200 km al sur del límite noroeste del país, está atravesada por la sierrade la Baja California, continuación de la cadena costera del Pacífico, en Estados Unidos, que constituye el sistema surcaliforniano. La península de Yucatán, q...
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Rock Music
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Carlos Santana
Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana became a superstar in the late 1960s with a string of hits and an appearance at the
famous Woodstock rock festival in 1969.
point (a single pitch sustained through a progression of chords), and the parallel movement of chords, derived from a technique on the electric guitar known as bar-chording. Many elements of African American music have been a continuing source of influence on rock music. These characteristics include riffs (repeated patterns), backbeats (emphasizing the second and fourth beats of each measure; see Musical Rhythm: Pulse and Meter ), call-and-response patterns, blue notes (the use of certain...
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Indian Literature
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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Indian author Arundhati Roy poses with a copy of her acclaimed first novel, The God of Small Things (1997).
Mathura BuddhaMany of the earliest texts of Indian literature were religious writings of Buddhism. This Buddha figure carved out ofsandstone is from Mathura, a city in northern India that was at the center of Buddhist sculptural activity from the 2ndcentury bc to the 6th century ad.Angelo Hornak/Corbis The sacred Vedas were composed in Old Sanskrit by Aryan poet-seers between about 1500 BC and about 1000 BC. The Vedas are compilations of two major literary forms: hymns of praise to nature deit...
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Pottery
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Pottery, clay that is chemically altered and permanently hardened by firing in a kiln.
basket, or a clay or plaster form. Liquid clay can be poured into plaster molds. A pot can be coil built: Clay is rolled between the palms of the hands and extended intolong coils, a coil is formed into a ring, and the pot is built up by superimposing rings. Also, a ball of clay can be pinched into the desired shape. The most sophisticatedpottery-making technique is wheel throwing. The potter's wheel, invented in the 4th millennium BC, is a flat disk that revolves horizontally on a pivot. Both...
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Deutsche Literatur (Sprache & Litteratur).
Walther von der VogelweideDer mittelhochdeutsche Dichter Walther von der Vogelweide (um 1170 bis etwa 1230) ist einer der herausragenden Minnesänger desMittelalters. Mehr als 100 Lieder sind in verschiedenen handschriftlichen Textzeugnissen überliefert. Über Walthers Leben ist wenigbekannt, vermutlich stammte er aus dem Österreichischen. Sein Werk umfasst Lieder zu den Themenbereichen Liebe, Politik undReligion. Seine Liebeslyrik folgt dem Konzept der „hohen Minne”.Bettmann/Corbis Das seit dem T...
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Corrigé
disponible
Le Guépard => titre de l’œuvre ; désigne aussi le personnage principal, le Prince Don
Fabrizio Corbera de...
Corrigé disponible Le Guépard => titre de l’œuvre ; désigne aussi le personnage principal, le Prince Don Fabrizio Corbera de Salina – aristocrate qui assiste au déclin de son monde, de sa classe sociale. En quoi ce personnage peut-il être comparé à un guépard ? I- Un physique très animal A- Un personnage viril • Le titre de l’œuvre => nom d’un anima • Virilité. • Taille imposante > homme dont la puissance est souvent représentée à travers son physique imposant. • Ses mains sont comme de grosses...
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coréen, art - beaux-arts.
Nous en savons davantage sur l’histoire et l’art de la Corée à partir du IIe siècle av. J.-C., durant la période des Trois Royaumes, époque durant laquelle la Chine domine la partie septentrionale de la Corée tandis que la région méridionale demeure autonome. L’art développé dans les trois États de Koguryo (dans le nord), Paekche (dans le sud-ouest) et Silla (dans le sud-est) contribue en grande partie au développement artistique de la Corée. Le Paekche, pauvre en ressources minérales, perpétu...
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Coran - résumé.
Premières pages du CoranSur les pages de ce manuscrit enluminé sont inscrites les premières lignes du Coran, le livre sacré de l'islam. Le Coran contient lesrévélations qu'a eues Mahomet à partir de 610 apr. J.-C., qui furent partiellement portées à l'écrit, en langue arabe, avant sa mort.Les musulmans considèrent que les textes qui le composent sont les paroles de Dieu transmises par l'archange Gabriel à Mahomet. LeCoran est récité pendant les prières et utilisé comme guide spirituel.Paolo Koch...
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bande dessinée - bande dessinée.
3 LA BANDE DESSINÉE AMÉRICAINE 3. 1 Les pionniers McCay (Winsor), Little Nemo in Slumberland Petit garçon plongé dans le pays des rêves, Nemo vit chaque nuit des aventures merveilleuses. Amoureux d'une jeune princesse, la fille du roi Morphée, il découvre des contrées insolites etgrandioses en compagnie de Flip, un garnement masqué affublé d'un cigare. La série connaît dès ses débuts un succès considérable et devient rapidement l'un des plus grands classiques de labande dessinée américaine.Win...