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… but crowds go wild at the very mention of his name. Girls swoon each time he flashes his bare torso on screen (which is quite often). Gossip rags work overtime fishing out juicy tidbits from his personal life: a brawl here, an alleged affair there.... …

… by men , that they can not express themselves or reveal their spirit and soul needs , even in the field of writing , when women attempt to write they were hindered by social dictates of their position as women, because writing was taken as a masculine…

… on March 6, 1475, at Caprese, in Tuscany, to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. The same day, his father noted down: "Today March 6, 1475, a child of the male sex has been born to me and I have named him Michelangelo. He was…

… famous painter and sculptor A male born in 1881, died in 1973- Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous painters of the 1900's. As the son of a professor of art, Picasso's talent for drawing was recognized at an early age.…

… Cristofori in the early 18th century. Construction A musical instrument consisting of a number of wire strings stretched over a metal frame, which are hit by felt-covered wooden hammers operated by a keyboard. the grand piano, or vertical, as in…

… this world in 1960 and grew up in New York. His mother was Afro-Puerto Rican, father was Haitian, and both were middle class citizens. He didn't try to keep his background from the public, and did not exhibit shame or the need to reverse negative stereot…

… to Titian and two other examples, each form a different time frame, examine the depiction of the nude as a reflection of concerns, attitudes and beliefs of the respective artists' time Titian, Ingres and Manet all have painted nude but through differe…

… -Mark Rothko- Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was born in Dvinsk, Russia, on September 25, 1903, the fourth child of Jacob Rothkowitz, a pharmacist, and Anna Goldin Rothkowitz (4). Rothko and his family (Jewish) immigrated…

… village of Rohrau, near Vienna, on March 31, 1732. When eight years old he was accepted into the choir school of Saint Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, where he received his only formal education. Dismissed from the choir at the age of 17, he spent the…

… He was not always an artist, his earliest career was in mathematics and physics, but by the 1960s he had discovered a new hobby in photography. By 1970 this hobby became his life's work as he switched from science to art. He studied the profession…