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    This essay focuses on Anthony Van Dyck and his influence during the baroque period, his portrayal of people through portraiture and the work that focuses on depicting religious and mythological paintings such as Daedalus and Icarus, around 1620. As well as exploring his life and influence through portraiture. The artist, Anthony Van Dyck known most notably for his impact within the baroque period, around 1621-72. Was known for his portrayal in religious works as well as his

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    during the Baroque era was regarded as a powerful form of communication that could invoke any emotion in the audience members. This philosophical belief was derived from a revival of the ideas of the Greco-Roman culture. As a result of these ideas, composers believed that they could also affect their listeners through the power of melody, harmony, rhythm, and stylistic details. The emphasis on communication was reflected in the major styles and components that were used throughout Baroque compositions

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    The period following the Renaissance Period, the Baroque era, lasted from 1600-1750. Throughout this historical age, “the foundations were laid for the following 300 or so years of musical expression: the idea of the modern orchestra was born, along with the opera (including the overture, prelude, aria, recitative, and chorus), the concerto, sonata, and modern cantata,” (History of Classical Music). These advances caused choral music to appear lackluster compared to the newly brilliant instrumental

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    Baroque Period Of Time

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    I stare up into the sky and wonder when my time will come. As I near the end of this life, I look back on the world I used to know. My final lesson will be one of memory as I tell you of the old world that existed during the Baroque period of time. Their world differed greatly from ours’. Today we have machines to do our work for us, but in their world they did not. Instead, they had to cast aside slothfulness and put their bodies to good use. If you truly want to know what their world was like,

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    When the Baroque era ended around 1750, we were introduced to an evolved musical world: The Classical Era. Beginning in 1750, revolution severely altered the way politics and social order were handled and discussed. Twenty-five years later in fact, we entered the American Revolution, and fourteen years after that, The French Revolution began. Around that time we were also introduced to Benjamin Franklin’s electricity discoveries and Edward Jenner’s discovery of small pox vaccination that would later

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    lead and contributed to by men, especially in the Renaissance and Baroque period. Even though art as a profession in these time periods was dominated by male artists, female artists did, in fact, make significant contributions to their respective art movements. This paper will discuss and compare the lives and works of two Italian painters: Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance period and Artemisia Gentileschi of the Baroque period. Sofonisba Anguissola Sofonisba Anguissola was

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    Puritan era enforced the closing of the theatres, but at the same time, poetry flourished with famous poets like John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor and John Dryden. The Baroque period of European Literature was based upon adding an artistic style of exaggerating motion in the dramatic expression. The ‘term’ Baroque can be defined as “A term applied by art historians to a style of architecture, sculpture, and painting that emerged in Italy at the beginning of the seventeenth century and then

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    The Baroque period refers to an era that started around 1600 and ended around 1750, and included composers like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel, who pioneered new styles like the concerto, the sonata, and the opera. Opera encouraged composers to devise ways of illustrating moods in their music; affecting the listener’s emotions became a major objective in composition during this period. Opera spread to France and England, and composers such as Rameau, Handel and Purcell began producing great works. “Joan

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    When looking at the Dances from the Baroque period, the music were composed in a simple style and its texture was determined by the complexity of the choreography and the importance of the event in which it were to be presented. The music was also homophonic with simple melody lines and clear phrase structure and rhythms. This eventually resulted in composers writing dance music intended to be heard in a formal concert setting. Even though composers created a division to instrumental music it was

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    During the Baroque period, propaganda uses art in order to convey the messages of religious issues; Counter Reformation for Roman Catholic church.1 In addition, in today’s society, it is used widely to achieve a desired result socially, politically, and economically.2 Through these examples of propaganda such as Gianlorenzo Bernini’s The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa for the Baroque period and a song about anti-immigration to America by “La Bestia,” and a poster about Obama’s campaign for the contemporary

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