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    The Isenheim Altarpiece was made by Matthias Grunewald. It took many years to complete the isenheim Altarpiece. Grunwald actually went off of someone else work and built from their work to create his own. These painting in the Isenheim Altarpiece are references to things that have happened in the Bible. The Isenheim Altarpiece was created in 1512 to 1516. The Isenheim Altarpiece was made for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim. “The monks at the monastery cared for peasants and social pariahs

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    convey a message and emotion providing the art meaning. A way art has become influenced in religion is by making statues of Jesus on the cross and have been painted for centuries to portray the sufferings of Christ. The crucifixion, portrayed by Matthias Grunewald in 1515, has been the fundamental symbol of the Christian religion, recalling the crucifixion of Jesus. On the cross, Jesus Christ is crowned and vested as a king, and the marks of his suffering are much less prominent. In The Catholic Faith

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    “The Crucifixion” is a representative painting of the renaissance. This painting was made by the artist Matthias Grunewald in the year 1512 and it is now located in the Unterlinden Museum in France. I think we should bring this painting to our museum because it can teach people about the Renaissance. This because the painting shows perspective, contrast, beauty and religion, which are characteristics of the renaissance arts. Perspective is shown because you can see the cross is set in the front

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    Matthias Grunewald was one of the greatest, if not the greatest German painter to come out of Germany. Matthias changed his name from what was originally ‘Mathis Gothardt’ to what everyone knew him by now Matthias Grunewald. Grunewald was born in Wurzbrug, Germany in the year 1470, decades ago from present day life, and he died in August the year of 1528. Matthias was a great artist, he was mainly known for his religious art works, and religious masterpieces. Matthias seemed to ignore the renaissance

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    The Cross Crucifixion

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    the Cross What could be the difference between the art influences within 100 years? Mattias Grünewald and Peter Paul Rubens are artists from two different eras. Both were influenced their work with the Catholic religion. The two have painted very similarly alters that are both of the crucifixions of Christ. They both show how much pain and agony with the way they portrayed their Christ. Mattias Grünewald a German artist born in 1475 in the city of Wurzburg, Germany. He was widely known as the greatest

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    The orchestra was made entirely of students from the university and they performed pieces such as Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92, Claude Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane and Paul Hindemith’s Symphony: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) with Adam Glaser as conductor. The performance of Debussy’s symphony was particularly moving and featured a harpist Alix Raspé who recently graduated from the school. Of the few times I have attended classical events, my time listening

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    Written in 1934, Mathis de Maler is one of the most famous works of the German born composer, Paul Hindemith. Hindemith was born in 1895 as the son as an artisan and maid in a city named Hanau. He was one of the most well known German composers of the early 1900’s, and a leading musical theorist. He regarded the composer as a ‘craftsmen’; this meant writing music for social needs as opposed to composing to satisfy ones soul and urge to express their self. Hindemith was a violinist and was known to

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    powerful influence of realism in art. It gave rise to the radical death iconography. Matthias Grunewald was an impressive German painter whose paintings were of Gothic tradition. They were filled with spiritual exuberance and daunting beauty. His work was meticulously executed and therefore, wealthy cleric and prosperous burghers were eager to commission him for his paintings. In the Iseheim Altarpiece, Grunewald depicts in fine detail with precision, a tormented decaying body of Christ riddled

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    A. What dramatic event in 1517 brought about the Reformation? On October 31, 1517, a plump, young professor & Augustinian monk named Martin Luther (1483-1546) tacked/nailed a list of 95 complaints about the Catholic Church on the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral. Written in Latin, the complaints were mostly attacking the doctrine of indulgences. Indulgences were forgiveness of punishment for sins, usually obtained either through good works or prayers along with the payment of an appropriate sum

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    What I found in the video, Cosmology and Belief, that I really have not thought about is there is a reason to the site planning and the architecture built on the location. An example of this, is El Castillo by the Mayans, which shows their self conscious attempt to depict ideas such as belief system, cosmology, and how the world is structured. El Castillo is a man-made mountain, the interesting meaning about the mountain is it stand for an access to the heavens. The location of this source is near

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