115 résultats pour "library"
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Édouard Manet
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Manet: Tradition and Innovation
French impressionist painter Édouard Manet shocked art audiences in Paris with Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on
the Grass; 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which depicts a nude woman at a woodland picnic.
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbeLe Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) by Édouard Manet was painted in 1863. When it was first displayed, therough brushwork and undefined areas of color were as distressing to the public as the nude woman who was neither aclassical goddess nor a symbol in an allegory. Manet claimed that the real subject of the painting was light, and it was thatphilosophy that gave birth to impressionism.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York After his father died in 1862, Manet...
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Paul Cézanne
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Peaches and Pears
Peaches and Pears (1888) by Paul Cézanne displays a sense of unity and continuity typical of the artist's many still-life
paintings.
the most transient natural effects as well as their own passing emotional states as the artists stood before nature. Under Pissarro's tutelage, and within a very shorttime during 1872-1873, Cézanne shifted from dark tones to bright hues and began to concentrate on scenes of farmland and rural villages. IV RETURN TO AIX-EN-PROVENCE Mont Sainte-Victoire by CézanneFrench artist Paul Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain near his home in Provence in southern France, onmany occasions. Ov...
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was known not only as a masterful painter but as an architect, sculptor, engineer, and scientist.
and conservation program made use of the latest technology to reverse some of the damage. Although much of the original surface is gone, the majesty of thecomposition and the penetrating characterization of the figures give a fleeting vision of its vanished splendor. The Virgin of the RocksThe Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci was actually painted twice. The first version, done in 1485, wascommissioned to be an altarpiece but was evidently rejected. That painting now hangs in the Louvre,...
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Seoul - geography.
higher learning in South Korea. All of South Korea’s top-ranked universities are in Seoul, including Chung-ang University (1918), Ewha Women’s University (1886),Korea University (1905), Seoul National University (1946), Sogang University (1960), Sung Kyun Kwan University (1938), and Yonsei University (1885). The National Museum features collections of Korean art and artifacts, and the National Science Museum showcases modern Korean technology. The National Library ofKorea, the country’s largest...
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Surrealism
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Surrealism, artistic and literary movement that explored and celebrated the realm of dreams and the unconscious mind through the creation of visual art, poetry, and
motion pictures.
Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (about 1505-1510).© 2008 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York./Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Dreams, according to Freud, were the royal road to studying the unconscious, because it is in dreams that our unconscious, primal desires manifest themselves. Theincongruities in dreams, Freud believed, result from a struggle for dominance of ego and id. In attempting to access the real workings of...
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House (architecture)
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Trulli in Alberobello, Italy
Alberobello, in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy, is noted for its unusual limestone houses known as trulli (from
Greek trullos, dome).
Fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, PompeiiThe Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy (built about 50 bc), featured a large hall with this mural encircling it. The mural ispainted in the Second Style of Roman painting. (Historians of art recognize four periods or styles in Roman wall painting.)The mural in the Villa of the Mysteries is thought to depict the initiation rituals of a mystery religion. For this reason, it hasbeen conjectured that the hall was used for cult rituals.Bridgeman Art Li...
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Atlanta - geography.
Prominent cultural and historical institutions in the city include the High Museum of Art (1983), designed by the noted postmodern American architect Richard Meier; theAtlanta Symphony; the Atlanta History Center, which maintains a history museum, historic houses and gardens, and extensive library and archives; NexusContemporary Art Center; the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center; the Apex Museum; the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University; the Clark Atlanta University ArtGallery; Fernbank Scie...
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Miami (Florida) - geography.
VI EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Colleges and universities in the area include the University of Miami, Florida International University, Barry University, St. Thomas University, and Florida MemorialCollege. Miami-Dade Community College, one of the nation’s largest two-year colleges, has six campuses in the region. Leading museums include the Historical Museumof Southern Florida, the Miami Museum of Science, the Miami Art Museum, the Lowe Art Museum on the campus of the University of M...
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Tansania - geographie.
in Tansania, die Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), erinnert, der Vereinigungstag (26. April), an dem die 1964 zwischen Tanganyika und den Inseln Sansibar und Pemba geschlossene Union, aus der das Land Tansania hervorging, gefeiert wird, der Tag der Arbeit (1. Mai), der Saba Saba- Tag (Tag der Landwirte am 7. Juli) und der Tag der Unabhängigkeit von Großbritannien (9. Dezember). Daneben feiert die tansanische Bevölkerung auch religiöse Feiertage des Christentums und des Islam, unter anderemauch Oster...
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Assyria - USA History.
villages and cities were ransacked and razed, but no attempt was made to annex their territories. In the course of time this pattern of conquest changed, and the Assyrian rulers began to make Assyria the center of a new empire by incorporating the conquered landsinto their domain, although probably not according to a conscious plan. Toward the end of the 10th century BC, for example, Adad-nirari II annexed the Aramaean state centering on Nisibis, east of the Habur River. His son, Tukulti-Ninurt...
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Philippinen - geographie.
Einwohner leben in Städten (2005). Das Bevölkerungswachstum beläuft sich auf 1,9 Prozent pro Jahr (2008). 3.1 Wichtige Städte Größte Stadt der Philippinen ist die Hauptstadt Manila mit etwa 10,4 Millionen Einwohnern (2003) in der Agglomeration. Die Stadt verfügt über den wichtigsten Hafen undist bedeutendster Produktionsstandort des Landes. Weitere wichtige Städte sind Quezon City (2,39 Millionen), das von 1948 bis 1976 die Hauptstadt des Landes war, Davao(1,40 Millionen), Cebu (662 000) und Za...
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Byzantine Art and Architecture
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Archangel Michael
This depiction of the archangel Michael, in Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy, is an example of ancient enamel art.
This Byzantine ivory relief shows Christ the Pantocrator, or ruler of the world, raising his hand in a gesture of blessing. Itcomes from the cover of a lectionary, or book containing portions of the scriptures, and dates from the second golden ageof Byzantine art, the late 10th century. The relief is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Mosaics were the favored medium for the interior adornment of Byzantine churches. The small cubes, or tesserae, t...
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Pakistan - geographie.
3.3 Religion Fast 100 Prozent der Bevölkerung bekennen sich zum Islam, rund 90 Prozent davon sind sunnitische, der Rest schiitische Muslime. Hindus und Christen bilden religiöseMinderheiten. Daneben gibt es Sikhs, Parsen und eine kleine Zahl Buddhisten. Die Verfassung definiert Pakistan als islamische Nation; seit den Verfassungsänderungen von1986 und 1991 ist die islamische Scharia oberste Rechtsquelle. Die Verfassung garantiert jedoch Glaubensfreiheit. 3.3. 1 Feiertage Weltliche Feiertage si...
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo (1475-1564), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and poet whose artistic accomplishments exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on
subsequent European art.
(17 ft) tall, was carved from a block of stone that another sculptor had left unfinished. Michelangelo drew on the classical tradition in depicting David as a nude,standing with his weight on one leg, the other leg at rest ( see contrapposto). This pose suggests impending movement, and the entire sculpture shows tense waiting, as David sizes up his enemy and considers his course of action. While David reveals Michelangelo's expert knowledge of anatomy (he had been dissecting corpses for about...
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Michelangelo.
(17 ft) tall, was carved from a block of stone that another sculptor had left unfinished. Michelangelo drew on the classical tradition in depicting David as a nude,standing with his weight on one leg, the other leg at rest ( see contrapposto). This pose suggests impending movement, and the entire sculpture shows tense waiting, as David sizes up his enemy and considers his course of action. While David reveals Michelangelo's expert knowledge of anatomy (he had been dissecting corpses for about...
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Japanese Literature
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Japanese Literature, literature of Japan, in written form from at least the 8th century
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to the present.
The Man’yō’sh ū contains about 4,500 poems, most of them composed in the Nara period (710-784). Some of the poems are far older, however, and some of the verses date to earlier collections that have not survived. The work demonstrates a gradual change from basic verses on simple subjects to more sophisticated expressions with a broad range of subject matter. This text also shows the development of poetic forms such as the tanka (short poem), a form structured around alternating lines of 5 an...
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Libya - country.
junipers and mastic trees are found in the higher elevations. Only a few large mammals are found in Libya. Wildlife includes desert rodents, hyenas, gazelles, and wildcats. Eagles, hawks, and vultures are common. E Environmental Issues Libya has undertaken a number of major irrigation projects intended to ease the country’s water shortage. The most ambitious is the so-called Great Man-Made River(GMMR), a massive 25-year irrigation scheme begun in 1984. The GMMR is a vast water pipeline system d...
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Algeria - country.
areas to fishing. National parks, including the giant Tassili N’Ajjer National Park in the eastern corner of the country, comprise a large proportion of the protected area. The effects of Algeria’s human population on the fragile landscape have been severe. The greatest ecological threats are deforestation and burning of scrub vegetation,conversion of steppe habitat to arable land, and soil erosion due to overgrazing and poor farming practices. Pollution of Mediterranean coastal waters is pervas...
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Bolivia - country.
E Plants and Animals Because of the wide variations in elevation, plant and animal species of nearly every climatic zone are found in Bolivia. A coarse grass, called ichu, grows on the largelybarren high plateau in the west. Para rubber trees, more than 2,000 species of hardwood trees, and vanilla, sarsaparilla, and saffron plants are common in the tropicalforests of the east. The llama, found chiefly on the Altiplano, is an efficient beast of burden. Alpacas and vicuñas also inhabit the platea...
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Tajikistan - country.
by more than 100 percent due to a high birth rate and improvements in medical care. During the early 1990s, however, the growth rate began to decline due to civilwar and emigration. A Ethnic Groups and Languages Tajiks constitute the largest ethnic group in Tajikistan, making up about 65 percent of the population. The peoples who live in Gorno-Badakhshan, located in the Pamirs,are classified as Tajiks, although their languages and customs are distinct. The largest minority group in the country...
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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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Philadelphia (city, Pennsylvania) - geography.
national trend of migration from eastern cities to the warmer climate of the Sun Belt. Whereas in 1950 Philadelphia contained more than 2 million people and ranked as the third largest city in America, the city's population plunged to 1,517,550 by 2000.In 2006, the city's population was estimated at 1,448,394. While the city proper was decreasing in population, the metropolitan area centered on Philadelphia grew. In 2006 the region had 6.2 million inhabitants. Philadelphiaranked as the nation’s...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina - country.
Serb military campaigns in 1992 and 1993 and Croat campaigns in 1993 and 1995 were aimed at expelling others from areas claimed by these groups. By the end ofthe war almost all non-Serbs had been expelled from Serb-claimed lands in eastern and northern Bosnia, and non-Croats from Croat-claimed lands in southwesternBosnia. In turn, most non-Muslims had left land under Muslim control in northwestern Bosnia. The largest cities had mixed populations in 1991, but the war and its aftermath made them a...
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Sydney (Australia) - geography.
blocks in the eastern suburbs and around railway stations elsewhere; and homes on large lots in the outer suburbs, especially those to the northwest. For publichousing, the state government built a number of high-rise apartment blocks in run-down inner suburbs after World War II (1939-1945). These housing projects weresoon deemed unsuccessful and were discontinued because they fostered crime and other social problems. More recently, public housing has taken the form of separateor semidetached ho...
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Folk Art
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Carved Native American Figure
This figure of a Native American trapper was carved from a single pine log (about 1850-1890).
that young Native American women were taught to weave by Ursuline nuns. The overall spirit of French-Canadian folk art is colorful, happy, and, at the same time,devout. B Anglo-Canadian Folk Art The English tradition in the Maritime provinces is strong in the decoration of utilitarian objects, in graining, marbling, and incising, and in ship carvings (both figureheadsand stern-board decorations). The emigration to Canada of many New Englanders during and after the American Revolution led to int...
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design - arts décoratifs.
Robot Braun MP 32 Dessiné en 1965 par G. A. Muller, ce modèle de mixeur est une application du design. Il allie fonctionnalité et pureté des lignes.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Le design concerne pratiquement toutes les industries humaines, de la fabrication de brosses à dents à la construction de ponts, en passant par la production d’avions et de toutes sortes d’outils et d’instruments manufacturés. Un train selon Loewy Les superbes trains en forme de missile, imaginés dans les années...
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Collaboration on a three-month governmental mission, set up in order to implement the material and staffing structures of the French Library. Estimation of costs and staff organisation of several departments. Presentation of reports in large meetings, from which the proposals were largely adopted. 1991-92 Management of the public relations group in the Ecole Polytechnique, involving the organisation of communication seminars in a TV studio and training for meetings, group work...etc 1991 Staat...
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canadien, art - beaux-arts.
Kane (Paul), Flottille Cinglant vers le lac Winnipeg, ces bateaux de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson convoient des fourrures, au long de la rivière Saskatchewan.Paul Kane, Flottille, 1850. Royal Ontario Museum,Toronto (Canada).Dept. of Ethnology, Royal Ontario Museum Après la conquête de 1759, les topographes de l’armée britannique réalisent les premières peintures de paysage. Georges Heriot et James Cockburn comptent parmi les plus intéressants de ces peintres-soldats. Kane (Paul), Campement O...
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Tiziano.
Baco y AriadnaTiziano pintó Baco y Ariadna en el palacio de Alfonso d'Este en Ferrara, entre 1518 y 1522. En la actualidad, el cuadro se exhibe en laNational Gallery de Londres.Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY Las dinámicas vibraciones de estas piezas tienen su paralelo en su obra de temática religiosa correspondiente al mismo periodo. Entre las primeras obras sobre este temadestaca la Asunción de la Virgen (1516-1518) sobre el altar de Santa María dei Frari en Venecia, que destaca por la maestr...
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estampe
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estampe, image imprimée au moyen d'une planche gravée ou dessinée sur un support quelconque.
Impression en taille-douce Le papier et la plaque de cuivre gravée et enduite d'encre ont été pressés entre deux rouleaux. La gravure apparaît maintenant sur le papier.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Après avoir gravé la planche de métal à l’aide d’un burin, l’artiste applique au rouleau une encre grasse sur toute la surface, en s’assurant que toutes les lignes en creux soient bien enduites. Cette opération effectuée, il essuie soigneusement la planche, afin de ne laisser de l’encre que d...
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Cetáceos - ciencias de la naturaleza.
OrcaLa orca es un gran depredador marino y entre sus presas están: peces, focas, leones marinos y ballenas. Las orcas tienen unaestructura social bien definida que gira en torno a la hembra dominante. Al igual que otros cetáceos con dientes (Odontocetos), lacomunicación entre los individuos está basada en la diversidad de sonidos que emiten estos animales. El silbido que se oye aquípertenece al calderón.Tom McHugh/Photo Researchers, Inc./Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornitholo...
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Harvard University.
VI PUBLICATIONS Undergraduate publications include the Harvard Crimson, a daily newspaper founded in 1873; the Harvard Advocate, a literary review; and a nationally known humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon. Among journals issued by Harvard’s graduate schools and affiliated groups are the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Educational Review, and Harvard Law Review. Harvard University Press, founded in 1913, publishes books of scholarly as well as general interest and medical and scien...
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Descubrimientos y exploraciones - geografía.
4 EDAD MEDIA Kublai Kan y Marco PoloEsta imagen francesa del siglo XV muestra a Kublai Kan, emperador de la dinastía Yuan de China, ofreciendo su sello de oro a losPolo. El famoso relato de Marco Polo sobre su trabajo al servicio de Kublai Kan fue el primer precedente importante de un contactoentre China y la Europa cristiana. El propio Kublai finalizó la conquista de China y se interesó por la cultura de este país.Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Durante la...
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New York City - geographie.
Zu Beginn des Nordamerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges (1776-1783) wurde die Stadt nach der Schlacht von Long Island von britischen Truppen besetzt, blieb aberZentrum des Widerstands gegen die Kolonialherrschaft. 1779 wurde New York Hauptstadt des gleichnamigen Bundesstaates. Nach der Fertigstellung des Erie-Kanals 1825 erfuhr New York als nunmehr wichtigste Hafenstadt an der nordamerikanischen Ostküste einen weiteren Wachstumsschub undwurde zu einem wichtigen Handels-, Finanz- und Industriezen...
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Arte gótico.
Catedral de SalisburyLa catedral de Salisbury es uno de los mejores ejemplos del gótico inglés. Se construyó entre 1220 y 1260, aunque la aguja sobre elcrucero y los arbotantes se añadieron en el siglo XIV.John Bethell/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Con la bóveda gótica los edificios pudieron adoptar formas variadas. Sin embargo, la planta común de las catedrales góticas consistió en tres o cinco naves longitudinales,un transepto, un coro y un presbiterio, es decir, una composición simil...
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Arte gótico - historia.
Catedral de SalisburyLa catedral de Salisbury es uno de los mejores ejemplos del gótico inglés. Se construyó entre 1220 y 1260, aunque la aguja sobre elcrucero y los arbotantes se añadieron en el siglo XIV.John Bethell/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Con la bóveda gótica los edificios pudieron adoptar formas variadas. Sin embargo, la planta común de las catedrales góticas consistió en tres o cinco naves longitudinales,un transepto, un coro y un presbiterio, es decir, una composición simil...
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Expressionism
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Auguste Rodin
Regarded as the foremost sculptor of the 19th and 20th centuries, French artist Auguste Rodin captured both dynamic
movement and inner psychological states.
Improvisation 28 (second version)Improvisation 28 (second version) was painted by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in 1912. Kandinsky used energeticcolor and form to express the spiritual content of his work. He was also a musician and saw a connection between thevisual arts and music, which he attempted to convey in paintings such as this one.© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris./Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York A new phase of German expressionism called Die Neue...
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Arte chino.
Recipiente de bronce de la dinastía ShangEl bronce que aparece en esta fotografía fue modelado durante el gobierno en China de la dinastía Shang, es decir, entre los siglos XVy XI a.C.Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum La civilización Shang (1766-1122 a.C.) nació directamente de la revolución neolítica (4000-2000 a.C.), una época de gran importancia en la antigua historia de China. Eneste periodo, con el comienzo de la agricultura y de la domesticación de animales, aparecieron los primeros asentamientos....
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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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Descubrimientos y exploraciones - geografía.
4 EDAD MEDIA Kublai Kan y Marco PoloEsta imagen francesa del siglo XV muestra a Kublai Kan, emperador de la dinastía Yuan de China, ofreciendo su sello de oro a losPolo. El famoso relato de Marco Polo sobre su trabajo al servicio de Kublai Kan fue el primer precedente importante de un contactoentre China y la Europa cristiana. El propio Kublai finalizó la conquista de China y se interesó por la cultura de este país.Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Durante la...
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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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Romanticism
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Romanticism, in art, European and American movement extending from about 1800 to 1850.
and the composition so dynamic that the effect is of chaos engulfing the immobile and indifferent figure of the dying king. IV GERMANY Two Men on a SeashoreTwo Men on a Seashore (1835) by German artist Caspar David Friedrich can be interpreted as a symbolic expression ofthe artist’s Christian faith. The sea is a symbol of death and the rocks on the beach stand for faith and the future. Themoon symbolizes Christ. This drawing in pencil and sepia ink closely resembles in its design a painting by...
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Titian
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Titian (1477?
Pesaro (1519-26), Titian effected a crucial change in Renaissance sacre conversazioni (paintings of the Virgin enthroned among saints) by placing the Virgin, traditionally at the composition's center, halfway up its right side, and by painting behind her in diagonal recession two giant columns that soar out of the picture'sspace. This new scheme was widely adopted by later artists, such as Paolo Veronese and the Carracci family, and, with its evocation of movement and infinity, it openedthe w...
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Cetáceos - ciencias de la naturaleza.
OrcaLa orca es un gran depredador marino y entre sus presas están: peces, focas, leones marinos y ballenas. Las orcas tienen unaestructura social bien definida que gira en torno a la hembra dominante. Al igual que otros cetáceos con dientes (Odontocetos), lacomunicación entre los individuos está basada en la diversidad de sonidos que emiten estos animales. El silbido que se oye aquípertenece al calderón.Tom McHugh/Photo Researchers, Inc./Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornitholo...
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Oregon - geography.
B Rivers and Lakes The Columbia River forms most of the Oregon-Washington boundary, and with its tributaries this great river drains a large portion of Oregon. From the point where theColumbia first touches the state, at Wallula Gap, the river runs in a shallow gorge, deepening as it approaches the Cascades. This part of the river once had manyrapids and falls, but is now navigable by large vessels because of dams and locks that have been built along much of its length. An important tributary o...
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Oregon - USA History.
B Rivers and Lakes The Columbia River forms most of the Oregon-Washington boundary, and with its tributaries this great river drains a large portion of Oregon. From the point where theColumbia first touches the state, at Wallula Gap, the river runs in a shallow gorge, deepening as it approaches the Cascades. This part of the river once had manyrapids and falls, but is now navigable by large vessels because of dams and locks that have been built along much of its length. An important tributary o...
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Paleolithic Art
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Cave Painting, Lascaux
This portion of a cave painting in what is now Lascaux, France, was done by Paleolithic artists about 13,000 bc.
Venus of WillendorfThis so-called Venus figurine from the area of Willendorf, Austria, is one of the earliest known examples of sculpture,dating from about 23,000 bc. The figure, which is carved out of limestone, is only 11.25 cm (4.5 in) high, and wasprobably designed to be held in the hand. It is believed the Venus may be a fertility symbol, which would explain theexaggerated female anatomy.Ali Meyer/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Paleolithic art usually is classified as either figura...
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Roman Mythology
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Roman Mythology, the religious beliefs and practices of the people of ancient Rome.
Aeneas and AnchisesAccording to mythology, Aeneas was a Trojan prince. After Troy fell to the Greeks during the Trojan War, Aeneas traveledto Italy and met and married a woman in the kingdom that occupied the region that would one day become Rome.Through this marriage, Aeneas was the direct ancestor of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome. In thispainting he is carrying his father, Anchises, on his back while fleeing from Troy. This painting by Lionello Spada is in theLouvre Museum...