Academic papers on Art & Architecture

Goya And Ingres, A Comparison
This 5 page paper provides a comparison of the portraits of Don Pedro, Duque De Osuna by Franscisco De Goya Y Lucientes (Goya) and the Comtesse DHaussonville by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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An eight page paper which considers some of the similarities and differences between the Italian and Russian Futurist movements of the early twentieth century, in terms of their political and artistic aims and the extent to which they influenced...
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An Interpretation of Irish Art
This 8 page paper considers a surreal post war painting by Patrick Hennessy, examining how it may be interpreted both in an exhibition setting and for its own meaning. The writer then examined how the painting may be interpreted in line with the...
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The Development of Roman Mosaics in Britain; First to Forth Century AD
This 8 page paper considers the way in which the style and construction of mosaics developed during the period. The writer explains this using many example of mosaic work that has survived, including mosaics form Fishbourne Roman Palace and form...
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Joseph Cornell, Life And Work
In modern thought, fetish becomes the object and fetishism the obsession with an object. This 14 page paper explores the work of Joseph Cornell as it relates to his life, the dadaist and surrealist movements and to the use of symbols and fetishes....
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World War I and Australian Art
This 10 page paper provides an overview of the correlation between the issues relative to World War I and the impacts on modern art. This paper integrates a specific view of the impacts of the War for Australian artists, and creates a significant...
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The Relationship of Jacopo Sansovino and Michelangelo
This 4 page report discusses by a Florentine who called himself Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570) who was responsible for much of the great architecture of 16th century Venice. The paper considers the works of Sansovino in relationship to the great...
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Two Views /The Architects of the Pyramids
A 6 page book review that compares and contrasts two books on Egyptian art and architecture -- Temples of the Last Pharaohs by Dieter Arnold of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Pharaohs' Master-Builders by Henri and Anne Stierlin. The writer...
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Team Zoo; Japanese Architects
This 10 page paper considers the formation, ideas and style that permeate though this Japanese co-operative of architect studios, all of which originated from students of the Waseda University. The paper gives a general background and then looks at...
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Frank Lloyd Wright
A 6 page paper which examines the celebrated architect
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Modernism -- Pollock, Frankenthaler, Warhol, and Greenberg
This 6 page report discusses modernism which is an example of artists were reacting against the isolation and the destruction of war, itself, and were looking for the healing and unification found within the process of the artwork. This report...
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A paper which looks at the similarities between Bernini, the foremost artist of the High Baroque period, and Gimaud, one of the most prominent members of the Art Nouveau movement, in terms of their interpretation of their respective cultures and...
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Laocoon and His Sons
This 5 page paper provides an overview of the sculpture Laocoon and His Sons, a representative piece of Greek sculpture. This paper integrates a view of the work, including the iconography and the way in which the subject matter is represented. ...
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Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
A 7 page research paper that examines the life of C.L. Wolfe, a nineteenth century art collector who was the only woman co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which she left her considerable art collection. The writer discusses women and...
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Michelangelo and the Medici Family
A 12 page paper which examines the relationship between the famous artist/architect Michelangelo and the Medici family. The Medici family commissioned Michelangelo to produce many architectural structures and pieces of art. Some of the endeavors...
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