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… was a place that all people, regardless of class, could belong to. As a source of unity, its influence on art and architecture was great during this time. As society drew away from the feudal system of the Romanesque period, a new spirit of human individ…

… discover why a confused, passionate 17 year old boy named Alan, has savagely blinded six horses with a spike. The discovery of this forms Peter Shaffer’s brutal play “Equus”. “Equus”, meaning horse in Latin, was performed by State Theatre of South…

… 10th century on, the earliest known Venetian glassware dates from the 15th century. Concentrated on the island of Murano, the Venetian industry dominated the European market until 1700. The major contribution of the Venetians was the development of…

… painting by Morris Bear Squire. It is titled “Buddha One.” In this piece, Squire first sketched the subject onto wood, then used oil paint, gold and silver leaf, mother of pearl, and crushed egg shells to accent the painting. He then went over the…

… he could do make money, from waiting tables to playing piano in a brothel to mopping floors. As Parks tells it, his first foray into photography came after he found a magazine left behind by a passenger on a train. A portfolio inside the magazine,…

… 6th century, when hill and pond gardens were introduced from China and Korea, where aristocrats gathered to enjoy poetry and games alongside a stream. Japanese monks further developed gardens into a high art over hundreds of years of temple gardening.…

… playwright that became well known in the late sixties and early seventies. He wrote many controversial poems and plays such as “Dutchman”, and poems such as the collection “A Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note…” Baraka dealt with many issues ranging…

… The story of art as a continuous effort does not begin in the caves of southern France or among the North American Indians. There is no direct tradition which links these strange beginings with our own days, but there is a direct tradition, handed…

… and On the Waterfront are two movies that make an attempt to explain organized crime, urban life, working people, and the role of government in the lives of people in the 1940s. These two movies share many similarities and differences form both…

… with a long introduction that shows us remarkable things about his character. He freely admits he uses the same tricks every place he goes, with the same sermon- "Love of money is the root of all evil." He shows…