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    Taylor Watts 9/18/17 HIST3243 Dr. D’Andrea Gender in Boccaccio’s The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian humanist writer and poet from Florence. He lived through the plague, and wrote an account of what he observed in his famous book The Decameron. This account is considered one of the most realistic and reliable portrayals of what life was like in Italy during the plague. However, most of the book focuses not so much on the plague itself, but on a group of young men and women and their

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    depictions of the original sin to disparage female sexuality, and depicting Mary as non-sexual to show that maternal and virginal femininity were the “correct' behaviour for women. An excellent example of the Madonna/whore complex in Renaissance art is Carlo da Camerino’s altarpiece, The Madonna of Humility with the Temptation of Eve. In the altarpiece, the Mary sits with Christ and is depicted as humble and virtuous, an idealized woman to demonstrate the role of women in the Church. Below Mary lies

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    Known as the Jimmy Fallon challenge, celebrities such as Madonna, The Game, Big Sean, and Seth Meyers have all donated over $10,000 to the relief. Aretha Franklin has also let 25-50 residents occupy rooms each night and have given them food at her hotel. She’s also holding health screenings at her father’s church

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    All of my life I have had a passion for music and fashion, and have always searched for ways to drench myself in domains that reflect a competitive and fast- paced industry. My interest in art, photography, and celebrity music videos, has often led me to the name David LaChapelle. But until I pursued a photography course last year I never knew the depth of who he was. American born David LaChapelle, is an outstanding contemporary photographer, music video director, film director and artist. His

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    Organization & Development What if you created a masterpiece that the whole world knew? Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael are some of the artists that did so. Artists from our day look up to them and use their techniques from long ago. Many artists in the renaissance types are some of the most well-known creators of all time. Donatello was a sculptor and a painter. He was a painter, though he is known for sculpting. He was an Italian sculptor that lived in the late fourteenth

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    with him. This is particular in scene one-act five, when Feste attempts to regain her trust with his intelligent humour. Clown. Good madonna, why mourn’st though? Olivia. Good Fool, for my brother’s death Clown. I think his soul is in hell, madonna Olivia. I know his soul is in heaven, fool Clown. The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul, being in heaven. Take away

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    Michelangelo was born in March, 1475 in Caprese. He was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and poet. He is one of the biggest contributors to the development of Western art today. He was also called “the divine one” and “The Renaissance Man”. Michelangelo’s ancestors before that were small time bankers. The bank that his family was working with failed and his father had to get a temporary governmental job. A couple of months after Michelangelo was born, his family moved back to Florence,

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    Derf's Cartoon

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    One example of this is Madonna, which Derf includes in the cartoon. Probably the intention of adding Madonna using a “booger”, which symbolizes a piercing, is to demonstrate that probably she is not really using that booger because she loves it but more because she wants to stay in actuality with her fans and media

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    Halen acquired the sound from the tune "Entire Lotta Love" for their fundamental feel. It would require a long investment to try and rundown the different groups that confessed to being affected by Led Zeppelin however they incorporate Metallica, Madonna, Red Hot ChiliPeppers, Audioslave, Alice Cooper, and Beastie Boys to give some examples. Basically Led Zeppelin had some kind of impact on an extensive larger part of prominent artists and gatherings. Brian May of Queen even said that Led Zeppelin

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    The Nude in Art History, which covers “sexual objectification, double standard of sexual behavior, and the Madonna-Whore Complex” talks about how women were and are portrayed in art. Many times women are seen as sexual objects (sexual objectification). This double standard on how women should be treated compared to men is a real issue, and art from the past really displays that issue. “Seeing comes before words” (Berger pg.7), a very powerful quote, Berger goes into saying that the way we see things

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