“Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light” at theAteneum Art Museumplaces medieval and Renaissance art beside the work of modern masters, highlighting the Gothic themes that connect them. Per astatementfrom the museum, all the artworks on display “deal wit...
Including examples like Renaissance art, 19th-century impressionism, or modern street art will make your essay more persuasive. And the more specific, the better! If you have a particular artist you admire, or even an individual work you find especially compelling, find a way to incorporate it...
St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Publishing dubbed Richie Frieman a “Modern Day Renaissance Man” due to a career that spans life as an author, illustrator, artist, entrepreneur, screenwriter, cartoonist, and even a champion professional wrestler. He is a #1 best-selling and award-winning au...
in Humanities from York University and has been featured in Forbes, Viva Magazine, Fluent in 3 Months, Daily Stoic, Learning How to Learn, StoryLearning and has delivered one of the most popular TEDx Talks on memory improvement. His most widely read books include The Victorious Mind and the ...
I’ve recently done a course on the Renaissance period, and that was fascinating because it was an area that I knew very little about, and so I’ve been seeking out these pictures, the Titians and the Tintorettos in the National Gallery.The response of this group to art was one of ...
In 2022, ill-informedheadlinesclaimedBeyoncésaved house music with the release of the euphoric GRAMMY-winning single "BREAK MY SOUL" and albumRENAISSANCE. House musicdidn't need saving, but it did reach a wider audience and become the sound of the summer while sparkingimportant conversationsremindi...
During the Renaissance period (1485-1660), poets got even more creative. They developed new structures and forms of meter. Playwrights like William Shakespeare and Thomas Marlowe incorporated poetry in their plays, in what is known as verse drama. Structures and styles, as well as adding layers...
Works by household names like Leonardo da Vinci have sold for stunning amounts, with the Renaissance polymath’s“Salvator Mundi” fetching $127.5m in 2013. Even that was beaten by Rembrandt’s “Pendant portraits” in 2013, after a member of the Rothschild banking family sold it to a consor...
Renaissance Art and Artists During the Renaissance, artists were no longer regarded as mere artisans as they has been in the medieval past. For the first time, artists emerged as independent personalities, comparable poets, and writers. They began to express their ideas even though the art stil...
There’s no single definition of “early music,” though since the American early-music movement ignited in the 1970s, it’s hewed largely to a European tradition, from the murky Medieval period through the explosive Renaissance and into the...