Compare And Contrast The Loves Of Paris And Parin

In 19th century France, the Neoclassical art style arose, influenced by the classical artistic style of Greco-Roman society. Around this time, France encountered many political, social and economic changes brought up mostly by the lower class French citizens. Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential Neoclassical artist during this time. Commissioned by both Nobles and lower class citizens of France, he created artworks such as the Oath of the Horatii (image 1), the Death of Marat (image 2), and Napoleon Crossing the Alps (image 3). David's art represented the ideas of thinkers of that time rather than just the ideals of that time. The purpose of David's art was to gain the support of French citizens through artistic propaganda in order

Lovett, my art history professor, a true inspiration, opened my eyes to a whole new world of rich ancient history, culture, and expression. From the beginning of time, art was utilized as a medium to tell a story, and ever since, society has turned to different medias of art- sculpture, print, conceptual performance, installations, drawings, oil on canvas, and paintings- to reflect on the current situation and express themselves. For instance, a chaotic era of war reflected in Weary Herakles, a bronze Greek Late Classical sculpture (Peloponnesian wars), the politically rebellious bravado evident in Goya’s Third of May, Romantic prints, or in Delacroix’s Lady Liberty the People, and even the religious power struggle between the Protestants and Catholics, apparent in the exuberance of Giacomo de la Porta’s Il Gesu, a Baroque Catholic church, or in Lucas Cranach’s Allegory of Law and Grace, a Northern Renaissance metal print. My greatest accomplishment in this class was designing an art exhibition featuring works from ancient to modern times, all linked by one common theme, Rebels in the History of Art. The gallery contained revolutionary works such as Giotto’s Arena Chapel, Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters, Manet’s Olympia, Duchamp’s Fountain, Monet’s Saint Lazare Station , Kandisky’s Improvisation 28, and other groundbreaking works. Moreover, the story behind each artwork has motivated me to further explore the art world in college as I intend to not only pursue

Claude Vignon’s work called David with the Head of Goliath, is an interpretation of the artist Caravaggio’s original masterpiece, which shows art’s familiar paradigm, every painter paints himself. His motivation for creating this piece was from visiting rome in 1610, he was influenced by Caravaggism, which was art inspired in the style of Caravaggio. “Some art historians regard him as a precursor of Rembrandt.” Painted circa 1620-1623, it is an oil on canvas, made in Paris, France, 133.7 cm x 98 cm (52 5/8 in. x 38 9/16 in.). “Vignon was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator, and, in 1623, was one of the most respected, productive, and successful artists in France, in which his patrons were king Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu.” He was born into a wealthy family and started art lessons when he was a young boy. A theme could be religious rebellion against others who were seen as powerful such as Goliath, and were not fit to be in power.

Love waxes timeless. It is passionate and forbidden and a true head rush. Marriage, on the other hand, is practical, safe, a ride up the socioeconomic ladder. In "The Other Paris," Mavis Gallant weaves the tale of Carol and Howard, a fictional couple who stand on the verge of a loveless marriage, to symbolize the misguided actions of the men and women in the reality of the 1950s, the story's setting. By employing stereotypical, ignorant, and altogether uninteresting characters, Gallant highlights the distinction between reality and imagination and through the mishaps and lack of passion in their courtship mockingly comments on society?s views of love and marriage.

The characters Romeo Montague and Paris from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare are alike and very different in many ways. Things the have in common are: money, status and personality. Differences between them are age, family position, character traits, and finance.

Each of the goddesses promised to give Paris something in return for giving her the apple. Hera offered Paris power and the richest kingdom on earth. Athena promised to make him a great hero and to give him wealth. Finally, Aphrodite promised a marriage to the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta (Joe "Trojan War"). Paris immediately chose Aphrodite to be the fairest, causing much discord for the others. He quickly set off to Sparta to fetch Helen; however, she was the wife of the Spartan king, Menelaus. When Paris reached Sparta, he saw that Menelaus was not there and he proceeded to abduct Helen. Menelaus was infuriated by this deviousness. He called upon all of Helen’s old suitors who had promised to keep her honor. These suitors did not truly want to go to war, in fact, Odysseus feigned insanity and

During this style in both countries the sculptures and paintings had a feel of historicism, morality and antiquity. When it comes to the feature of historicism figure 23.4 of The Death of Germanius by Thomas Banks is a good example due to the fact that he tries to emphasize logic and credibility with the authenticy of his scene being as real and historical as possible, in comparison to figure 23.28 of The Death of Marat by David which was made to be used as propaganda so it wasn’t as informative and historical than Banks sculpture. In the morality aspect of this style women artist made influential pieces in both countries, however, England’s artist Angelica Kaufmann painting in figure 23.5 of Cornelia Presenting her Children as Her Treasures shows more a deeper meaning and background story with a well known historical figure compared to French’s piece in figure 23.29 of Marie-Louise Lebrun of her Self-Portait with Daughter which does tell a story as well but not quite as enriched as the other. When it cones to the difference in the Neoclassicism period from French to England in the architecture feature the focus in French were more for the exterior and playing with shapes using geometry to create uniqueness while England Architecture was based on antiquity and more had more of an interior

The two characters of Romeo and Paris are extremely different individuals with their own values and opinions. Both of these men are in love with Juliet but at the end of the play neither of them are able to be with her because they have died. But, the two characters do die for, in a way, similar reasons which is that they both love Juliet. This is one of the characters similarities even though they do not posses much in common with each other. Paris dies on account of because he loves Juliet he confronts Romeo at her tomb thinking that he is there to disrespect Juliet's body because of his banishment and his "hate" for the Capulets. In doing so Paris falls at the hand of Romeo and dies. Romeo does die in a different way but also because he

Within Marie de France’s lais are found multiple complications within a love plot, and when the reader reaches the end of the tale, all of those difficulties are magically overcome. The idea of love strengthening while enduring hardships is a central plot in Marie de France. Within Marie’s stories such as “Guigemar”, “Le Frense”, and “Lanval” there are love stories that seem to overcome insurmountable complications. Rather, they seemed likely to lead to a tragic ending. However, through the power of love and what seems to be a magical force, everything is resolved and the couples whisk away to live their lives together, or experience another similar magical ending.

Throughout history people can see many of the developments and differences among cultures, through the artworks that were produced. This essay will carefully analyze, evaluate, and compare four distinct works, from different time periods and cultures. The works to be compared are: The Woman from Willendorf, The Bust of Nefertiti, Figure of A Woman, and Young Flavian Woman. Throughout this paper the style and function of each individual work will be explored, along with the cultural ideas presented in each piece.

King of Ithaca, Odysseus, began this epic journey by partaking in the Trojan War. When the goddess Eris placed a golden apple with “to the fairest” inscribed on it, things spun out of control. The goddesses asked a young boy from Troy to judge their beauty. Each goddess promised Paris something if he voted for them. Aphrodite promised him that he would have the most beautiful woman in the world to be his wife. He awarded the apple to Aphrodite and she gave him Helen of Sparta. Helen although was to be married to Menelaus. Menelaus rallied all of the Greek Kings to bring Helen back.

Groseclose focuses on studying the artwork’s use of lighting and the identity of the subjects, their postures, and facial expressions. Also, she interprets the painting

Romeo and Juliet are the most thought of characters in the play that experience tragedy, but Paris could be considered one as well. Juliet does not love Paris back, Paris does not know that Juliet is already married, and Paris dies are all reasons that Paris is a victim of tragedy in this play. The first reason Paris's story is tragic is that Juliet doesn’t love him back. In the story, Juliet urges, "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of yonder tower" This line implies that she would rather jump off of a tower than marry him, in other words, she does not want to marry him.

David was a supporter of the French Revolution and this may be his political influence on the painting even though Napoleon was a son of the Revolution as well.