Essays on Orsay

1566, oil on wood

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium "'THE CENSUS AT BETHLEHEM'". Google Cultural Institute, https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/zQKyGcrY3z1hKQ. The Census at Bethlehem (also known as The Numbering at Bethlehem) by Pieter Bruegel is a part of the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium as Bruegel was Flemish renaissance artist. The painting can be seen in great detail through Google Cultural Institute, which is very handy because, similarly to Bosch, Pieter Bruegel includes a lot of details and a diverse number of actions going on. Because of that the viewer may be looking at a painting for a long ...

Nymphs and a Satyr" and "The Dance."

Art has different forms and has different meanings for artists and art lovers. At times, the subject matter or painting style of two distinct artists brings forward similarities and contrasts of individual art period or art movement. The paper will discuss the formal treatment and iconography of “Nymphs and a Satyr" by Adolphe-William Bouguereau and "The Dance" by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It focuses on what they were used for and if they communicate a message and what is the cultural context behind. Adolphe William Bouguereau was born in France in 1825 and studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where ...

It has been a well-known fact that prostitution has been one of the oldest professions in the history for women. This profession does not only apply to specific women from another culture but rather this covers the lives of the women throughout the world. From the medieval times up to the late 19th century, prostitution became the booming industry reserved for women with no formal education, no family, and worst no dowry to gain a potential husband. Throughout their lives, women who worked as prostitutes had hard lives and often in poverty. Only very few of these women had ...

Among the most celebrated artists of the Impressionist movement, Edgar Degas was also one of the most prolific, leaving behind a wide range of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works (Pioch, 2002). In a Café or L’ Absinthe was created in 1873, it measures 36 1/4 x 26 3/4 inches and is a characteristic painting by Degas (Pioch, 2002). The artist used oil on canvas for the creation of the work, which depicts an objective scene from a Parisian Café of the end of the 19th century, the time Degas lived and worked (Musée d’ Orsay, 2006).

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