Essays on Medieval Europe

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The Annunciation painting by Leonardo da Vinci The Annunciation painting done by Leonardo da Vinci has befuddled and intrigued many scholars for centuries. This forms one of Leonardo's early painting, and it depicts an influence of his mastery works. The architectural setting of the point opens the landscape of trees that...

Moulin Rouge is a French play which tells the story of a young author who falls in love with a movie star featured in the Moulin Rouge. The young poets defy his father's order and join the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantasy world in France. In the dingy...

A government ruling system is a set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized to exert its powers over its people. Louis XIV was born in 1638.He became a king at the age of four and was forced to flee from the French kingdom at...

Although people are struggling to find treatment for diseases like AIDS and cancer, the modern era is healthier compared to hundred years ago.  Human beings have come close to extinction through sicknesses like smallpox, Cholera, and Typhus. However, humanity has managed to withstand their effects and survive. A review of...

The renaissance is the revival period of art between the 14th and the 17th Centuries in the European history. Arguably, the period is bridged by the period of enlightenment to modern-day history. Eminent scholars have been attracted to the same subject of research.  Notably, the history of the architecture of...

In my view, the music of today is essentially ROMANTIC since almost every today’s music focusses on self-expression of emotion without considering the various rules of music. Romanticism has influenced almost every genre of today’s music because modern artists are trying to be more personal and emotional in their compositions....

The Mid-Century Artists The mid-century artists were initially not regarded as artisans since their art had been of the medieval past. After the rebirth of the original and classical forms of art, they came up as independent artisans and started being comparable to writers and poets. They developed a new aspect...

The term quattrocento is Italian for “four hundred”. In fine art, this term refers to the 15th century. Therefore, it embraces both cultural and artistic activities involving painting, architecture and sculpture between 1400 and 1500 in Italy. As quattrocento coincided with the Florentine Renaissance, this term is often seen as...

The classical phase and precisely the High Renaissance contains the Italian pieces of art done from the 1490’s to a better part of the 16th century. The greatest artists of the phase included Michelangelo, Raphael and many others whose works are famous and have been well-maintained over the years. This...

Jan van Eyck, a Flemish painter was recognized to be one of the greatest northern renaissance artists to have emerged during the 14th century, a period where the Byzantine art phrase was being traded for the realism period (Ridderbos, Bernhard, Anne Van Buren, and Henk 3). Throughout his paintings, the...

The term graphic design was coined by William Addison Dwiggins to refer the activities of designing books, by combining typesetting, illustrations and design. Most of the silk and spices used in European countries were imported from China and this is how paper got to Europe during the 11th century. It...