Rogier van der Weyden, one of the most well-known and influential Netherlandish painters of the fifteenth century, was born in the city of Tournai in Belgium in about 1400. A son of a cutler, after completing his apprenticeship with Robert Campin, he moved to Brussels where he was made the official painter to the city. […]
Date: March 4th, 2025
Compare and contrast the work of two contemporary women illustrators or artists. Situate their work in a social and historical context and examine how their work addresses questions of gendered identity. In this essay, I will examine the work of Ana Mendieta and Jenny Saville, two contemporary women artists from two separate movements in history; […]
Date: March 4th, 2025
Market segmentation can be defined as the process of breaking down the total market for a product or service into distinct sub-groups or segments where each segment may conceivably represent a separate target market to be reached with a distinctive marketing mix. Segmentation and the subsequent strategies of targeting and positioning start by recognizing that […]
Date: March 4th, 2025
Many people believe prejudice and discrimination mean the same thing .In fact there is a very important difference between them. Prejudice is an attitude, whereas discrimination refers to the behaviour or action. If someone dislikes a given minority, but does not allow this dislike to effect their behaviour then the person shows prejudice but not […]
Date: March 3rd, 2025
Mona Lisa is a 16th-century painting made from oil and popular wood. Due to the painting’s mystique and technical mystery, it is one of the world’s most famous paintings. Mona Lisa is also known as La Joconde or La Giocondo was made by a “Renaissance Man”, an Italian artist known as Leonardo Da Vinci (Sassoon, […]
Date: March 3rd, 2025
The Biblical character of David has been the inspiration for many works of art throughout history. The young David, as Goliath’s adversary, has been sculpted by such artists as Verrocchio, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Bernini. Although all of these sculptures are comparable in some aspects, the ones by Donatello and Bernini present significant differences. Donatello was […]
Date: March 3rd, 2025
The Deposition from the Cross The Deposition from the Cross is a Jacopo Pontormo’s oil on wood painting which placed at the Capponi Chapel altar in the Santa Felicitac church in Florence. The Deposition is one of the classical prospects that portray the life of Jesus in the medieval art. And as a result of […]
Date: March 3rd, 2025
Nudity vs. Nakedness The nude figure is the most volatile subject in the history of painting. The artist’s treatment of the nude dictates whether her gaze addresses the viewer with a coy obliqueness or a confrontational directness. The figure has the ability to condemn, invite, and often perform both simultaneously. Through the viewer’s inverted projection […]
Date: March 3rd, 2025
The Role of Citizen Science in Monitoring Marine Biodiversity and Environmental Change The asterisk indicates that for the purpose of this paper, the term citizen science is used to mean three distinct but inter-dependent categories of citizen science — citizen (1) observatories, (2) monitoring and (3) extension — which are all needed to monitor marine biodiversity […]
Date: March 3rd, 2025
‘Big Brother’ is a fictional character in George Orwells dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, which tells the story of one man’s attempt to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives. In the society that Orwell describes, everybody lives under complete twenty-four hour surveillance by the governing authorities. Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the […]
Date: March 3rd, 2025
