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Blog entry #8: Telling the Story of the Baroque Using JSTOR: 8.10

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    The artist that I chose for this topic is Jan Vermeer. Jan(Johannes) Vermeer was a Dutch artist, who  lived  during the Baroque period. He was born on October 1632, Delft, Netherlands. He was famous for  his paintings during the 17th century. He was also famous for making 34 paintings, which one of the  most famous one was the Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer was represented as the artist of Delft for  his famous paintings. His paintings resembled a remarkable purity of light and form. Another one of  Vermeer's paintings Christ in the house of Mary and Martha could actually be recognized as an Italian  art even though its Dutch ( Zilva, C. S. “Jan Vermeer of Delft.”   The Burlington Magazine for  Connoisseurs ,  vol. 67, no. 391, 1935, pp. 178–178.   JSTOR , www.jstor.org/stable/866314.  Accessed  27 Nov. 2020). Vermeer's painting were so significant that the Italians put his paintings up in  the  Renaissance  art museum of Florence, Italy.      However, in Chapter 15 on
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Blog entry #7: Telling the Story of Early Modern England Using JSTOR: 7.8

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     On todays blog I chose to write about Henry VII , yes the father of Henry VIII, the first monarch of  the House of Tudor and the king who actually took initiative of England's internal and external  problems. Henry VII was born on January 28, 1457 at Pembroke Castle, United Kingdom. His reign on  England lasted 22 August 1485-21 April 1509. Unlike his spoiled corrupted son King Henry VIII,  Henry VII was a better king who outwitted his enemies using tactful manner and intelligence. He had  one goal for his country and Kingdom and that was transform it into a place of harmony, wealth, and  social success. Henry VII married Elizabeth of York and took part in the conflict between the  Lancastrians and Yorkists. The two factors that made King Henry VII have strong leadership of his  dynasty was his strength and financial position..."Two conditions which helped him establish his  dynasty and revive the efficiency of  kingship were the strength and financial position ( Kar,  Ja
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Blog entry #6: Telling Hamlet's Story: 6.21

     In the beginning of the story  Hamlet , Hamlet confronts his father's spirit who is also named Hamlet  too. His father explains that his brother Claudius, who is Hamlet's uncle betrayed and killed him from  behind (Act 1 Scene 5, Page 60-61). Now Hamlet makes a plan to kill Claudius and avenge his father's  death. So as a result he starts acting like a madman causing the people he knew to be worried towards  him. This leads to Hamlet accidentally killing Polonius, who he thought was Claudius behind the  curtains since they had the same voice (Act 3 Scene 4, page 131). Since Polonius was the father of  Laertes and Ophelia, this is going to result in a further conflict later on in the story causing Ophelia to  go mad and drown herself and Laertes starts having a lust for revenge against Hamlet for the loss of his  sister and father.      Furthermore, Hamlet decided to strike Claudius down while he was praying not paying attention to  what is behind him, but he postponed
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Blog entry #5: Telling the Story of the Renaissance in the North: 5.7

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      Albrecht Durer's career was a wood engraver. Durer was born in Nuremburg, Germany and he was  the  son of a goldsmith...Durer was a born in Nuremberg, the son of a goldsmith, Even as a child he  showed remarkable skill in drawing. His father apprenticed him to wood engraver" (Chapter 14, Pg.  336). Durer was imagining a new way of art where he can bring wood and paper together..."Woodcut  engravings are produced by designing on a block of soft wood, then cutting away the surrounding  wood to leave the lines of the drawing standing in relief. The blocks of the wood can then be coated  with ink and print an impression on paper" (Chapter 14, Pg. 336). This explains that unlike the other  artists where they only use paper to paint art, stone to create sculpture, or glass to fabricate images,  Durer used two materials wood and paper to design his art, which introduced a new technique to make  art. Not only Albrecht Durer was a talented artist, but he was a printmake
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Blog entry #4: Telling the Story of the High Renaissance Using JSTOR: 4.11

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      There are many artists of Italy who were praised by their artwork, well that is what we were told  and  read eventually, however there were plenty of artists that were criticized for their art for example  like Raphael as in Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino. One of the art that Raphael was criticized upon was  FIRE  IN  THE BORGO. A lot of modern scholars judged FIRE IN THE BORGO  for its lack of  narration and symbolism..."Modern Scholars have often judged Raphael's FIRE IN THE BORGO to be  a disappointment. It has been criticized for a lack of proportion, narrative, and structural coherence and  for its awkward Michelangelesque nudes (Raphael's 'Fire in the Borgo' and the Italian Pictorial  Vernacular)". So simply put the painting had no meaning and affection towards the modern scholars,  they couldn't find out what was Raphael's real motive behind this painting.      The FIRE IN THE BORGO was never mentioned in module 4, because module 4 only introdu
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The story of Machiavelli

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          Machiavelli states that a prince who occupies his own country should dominate all the  neighboring  countries and weaken the stronger countries in order stay in rule of their current state by  making sure no other countries try to invade their country and weaker countries will naturally follow  the stronger countries. Once the prince conquers all the countries he must make sure to govern them  like he governs his own states. Also, a prince's job is to solve all conflicts before it increases and gets  out of hand. These were the same tactics that the Romans used and this influenced Machiavelli to use  the same methods..."In the provinces they took over, the Romans followed these politics: they sent in  colonies, kept the less powerful occupied without increasing their strength, put down the powerful, and  did not allow powerful foreigners to acquire a reputation there (Machiavelli 9)". So Machiavelli's goal  was to plan ahead and solve the problem by conqueri
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