Heinrich Wölfflin

Fifty years after Jeremy Bentham’s initial defention of utility, the German economist Hermann Heinrich Gossen introduced the term marginal utility and the law of diminishing marginal utility. The term marginal utility is defined as “the pleasure or pain from an additional unit or ‘dose’ of a good.” The introduction of marginal utility to economic thought and vocabulary was revolutionary, reducing the need to measure total pleasure or pain because “Even if marginal utilities were measured on a cardinal

There are many allusions used to help develop traits of ambition, intelligence and vengeful for Victor Frankenstein and his creature. Victor as a young boy is interested in the natural philosophers such as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus. Agrippa first sparked his interest and even though his father told him that “it is sad trash.” (Shelley 24) he continued to research and read his books. Victor mainly ignored his father’s comment as his father just glanced at the book and made

At first Siemens downplayed the affair saying that it was only a matter of a few millions Euros. However within a month their own estimate skyrocketed up to an amount of 420 million Euros. Furthermore Klaus Kleinfeld the then recently installed CEO, denied awareness or involvement. Siemens’ first statements were exemplary of an ill-suited cursory attempting to downplay a developing scandal prematurely. This tactic appeared egoistical and lacked moral responsibility. It also damaged stakeholders’

When is the proper moment to think? Is it better to think before, during, or after an action? The writer, Heinrich von Kleist, argues that one should think after an act. He uses the example of a wrestler, “The athlete, at that moment when he is holding his opponent in his grip, simply has no recourse but to act spontaneously, on inspiration; and if he begins to calculate which muscles to contract and which limbs to move in order to throw him, he will always draw the short straw and be thrown himself”

Fortunate and merciful; yet brutal and poignant. Heinrich von Kleist’s The Earthquake in Chile (1807) was indeed a story of love, but also contained a definite twist of ferociousness. In Isak Winkel Holm’s “Earthquake in Haiti: Kleist and the Birth of Modern Disaster Discourse,” Holm portrays two different interpretations of Kleist’s story. He believes that the earthquake could mean the beginning of a siege of disaster or a merciful act for Josefa and Jeronimo’s love. The two analyses are different

Creativity flows from our fingertips and consumes our bodies, allowing us to express our thoughts and feelings in a constructive healthy way. Life would be drab without creativity. Creativity brings people together and forces them apart in a beautiful and wretched process all at the same time. It amazes me how people can be nurtured in similar environments yet still have such unique and vast ideas and ways they express creativity. From this humanities class I have learned multiple ways on how artists

The style that followed the Renaissance is usually called ‘Baroque’. ‘But, while it is easy to identify the earlier style by definite marks of recognition, this is not so simple in the case of Baroque.’ Baroque is considered to be ‘one of the great periods of art history’, and it is generally identified as being developed by Caravaggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini and Annibale Carracci. The Baroque period developed in Europe in around 1600, and it can be seen partly as a reaction against the intricate and

Creativity flows from our fingertips and consumers our bodies, letting us erupted our unsaid thoughts and feelings in an constructive healthy way. Life would be drape without creativity. Creativity brings people together and forces them apart, hindering their relationship for the love of art, a beautiful and wretched process all at the same time. It amazes me how people can be nurtured in similar environments yet still have such unique and vast ideas and ways they express creativity. From this humanities

reflective work; in it we are able to find emotion, inner thought, life events, culture, nature, time periods, etc. Above all, this allows us to recognize the defining characteristics and methods that many artists employ to appeal to our senses. Heinrich Wolfflin, an art historian, went about categorizing art according to whether it appeals primarily to the emotion or to the intellect. By examining for such styles through their characteristics in the paintings The Madonna and Child with Saints Louis of

The Italian Renaissance Throughout history many art movements have emerged that artists and styles are classified under. One large contributing movement over the time period from about 1450 to about 1600 was known as the Italian Renaissance. However, what a large portion of people do not realize is that the Italian Renaissance was actually two main movements during that period of time. Each movement had key artists and a variation in style from the other movements. These two movements