Sarah Cooper's Liberty Leading The People

The painting depicts one of the most decisive victories of the American Revolution. Prior to the battle American morale was very low, even Washington was becoming doubtful. The continental army was forced out of New York and pushed across most of New Jersey on a desperate retreat induced by many British victories. The British troops that occupied the small town of Trenton were convinced that American morale was much too broken for any sort of attack… Washington had other plans. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

The painting depicts real people doing everyday things, like studying. Classical Antiquity was greatly displayed through another painting it depicts a normal person holding a balance. In the Middle Ages this would have been frowned upon because they discouraged the making of realistic paintings (Follett software). Realistic paintings would not have been introduced to the Renaissance without the humanists studying classical antiquity.

The painting depicts one of the most decisive victories of the American Revolution. Prior to the battle American morale was very low, even Washington was becoming doubtful. The continental army was forced out of New York and pushed across most of New Jersey on a desperate retreat induced by many British victories. The British troops that occupied the small town of Trenton were convinced that American morale was much too broken for any sort of attack… Washington had other plans. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

These paintings were created after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 which gave slaves their freedom from their master and certain rights as human beings. Now thanks to this decree these former slaves can do activities that were never allowed to do by their masters like reading or going to carnivals which are depicted in the painting without the fear

In this painting there is the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. The committee is made up of John Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. John Hancock, was the President of the Continental Congress. This painting has portraits of 42 of the 56 signers and 5 other patriots. All the portraits of the individuals in this room were paint from life meaning everyone sat there until the painting was done.

The science of oil painting came to it's full fruition in the nineteenth century. The palette now included dazzling colors which could electrify a painting. First a student of Cabanel's and later influenced by Mariano Fortuny y Marshal, Regnault was one of the rising stars of the Romantic movement. He lived a passionate life, traveling to the Middle East even though he was broke, hanging out in Spain as it rose up against Queen Isabella the Second, he loved excitement and adventure.

The scenery seems to be exactly like that of a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. The art shows an extended family of parents, grandparents and children sitting around a table for a meal. An elderly woman in apron-which I assume is grandma-is placing a huge juicy looking turkey at the center of the table. There are also fruits and other small dishes on the table. Grandpa is on his feet at the end of the table staring at the juicy turkey. The family members are on either side of the table and speaking happily. There is also a gentleman whose gaze is directed at the viewer and the dining table also extends beyond the image. There are also two important texts in the image. On the top of the painting is the text “ours to fight for” and at the bottom is the title of the painting “Freedom from

The Surrender at Yorktown was a pivotal moment in the freedom of The United States, and was the creation of the identity and nationality known as American. America was built on freedom which means in turn, so are Americans. The United States today continues to fight for freedom; from all sorts of groups of people. In the painting, these people seem to be from the Middle East.

This painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze illustrates the crossing of the Delaware River, lead by General Washington, with his soldiers from the continental army. Even though this painting was painted years after the war of independence, it was a time period when art was booming in the Americas, and it captures everyone’s emotions and details clearly in the painting.

“Comparison of the Arts” by Leonardo da Vinci compares several different art forms, mainly sculpture and writing, in a unique and intriguing way. It was very interesting that Da Vinci chose painting as his most prized art. In his time, he was an affluent producer of many types of invention, scientific research, writings and paintings. Yet, he has such passion for painting that every other kind of art that he was involved in seemed to pale in comparison to the emotion he felt and portrayed while painting. I personally felt persuaded to also love painting at a higher level than I had before. Leonardo da Vinci is one of my favorite historical figures mainly because of his scientific influence and inventions but after seeing his own passion I felt a renewed sense of wonder at the ability humans must have the ability to see the world around them and recreate it in their own light.

Historian Edmund Morgan wrote that "the rise of liberty and equality in America was accompanied by slavery" (5). Although it may sound absurd now, he spoke from the observations of the time he lived in. The 19th century was a time of development and new inventions in the United States. The American industry was just beginning to blossom, the economy was rising due to plantations in the south, and the demand for free labor was increasing. According to Census, in 1860 there were approximately 4 million slaves living in the United States, nearly all in the south(3,4). The slaves worked anywhere from the fields to inside households. Unlike other impoverished citizens in the community, the majority of the slaves never had a chance at freedom; it was lifelong bondage. In order to understand slavery better I am going to look at a few things. My main idea is to look at daily life, however daily life was different for slaves depending on if they were men or women, what kind of work they did, or even where they were working

For example of Neoclassicism which happened in opposition to Rococo. The arts started to aim for the political issue. “With the revolution, French painting resumed its moral and political purpose and embraced the style known as neoclassicism. (National Gallery of Art, n.d.)” For another example, “Romantic art express the artist’s persona directly with man and nature, and does not solely reason but also emotion and instinct.” (McCoy, n.d.) Liberty Leading the People painted by Eugène Delacroix is very typical Romantic art. This oil painting was drawn about the French Revolution, especially freedom in France. In the past, this kind of idea or thought never allowed because the art was only used for the religious purpose.

Delacroix had significant sympathies for the Greeks in their time of distress, but he was also interested in the poet George Gordon Bryon, who was seen as a national hero by the Greeks . Delacroix’s influence by the Greek style can be seen in his artwork we will further discuss

While Eugene Delacroix utilized expression in his forms, he did not employ abstraction. Abstraction is defined as the freedom from representational qualities in art, Delacroix availed forms in a representational manner. His figures were considered realistic, this is in accordance to the fact they closely resemble the natural form of a human body. The figures depicted in Delacroix’s composition are not examples of the artist's own interpretation of the human form but rather the natural appearance.

In the center of the painting is Plato on the left and Aristotle on the right. These two are showing the two parts within philosophy, Timaeus and Ethics. The other philosophers on the sides are ‘corresponding to the separate schools of thought within the two major divisions, each carrying on the philosophical arguments for which they were famous (Fleming, 304). Plato: (428-c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher and one of the most creative and influential thinkers in Western philosophy. Plato founded the Academy in Athens, the institution often described as the first European