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…(french essay on the book entitles "Le Cid") Le Cid Le Cid était l'oeuvre qui renda Corneille un des meilleurs écrivains de l'histoire de la littérature française. Ses pièces ont été écrites sous l'influence du Baroque et du Classicisme…

…for an English Raphael seem to support the general charge against Georgian painting on the first half of the XVIIIth century. But Walpole’s verdict was coloured by his dislike of the latest phase of the English baroque. At least a few of the finest portraits were…

…to the throne, overthrowing Ivan VI. Lavish baroque palaces, an increase in western culture, and the taking of Berlin from Prussia in the Seven Years War characterized her reign. Again, Russia seemed to be establishing itself as a powerful society. However…

…own artists," he wrote. "I don't care how long it takes". He went to Bayreuth to see whether its baroque Margravian opera house, which then had the largest opera stage in Germany would answer his requirements. He immediately decided it wouldn't…

…Heinrich Schütz is the most important composer in the early Baroque period and the most important German composer up until the time of J.S. Bach. He is the first to command the respect of other composers on an international level and to achieve…

…rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues…

…the daring of the Gothic cathedral, the solid calmness of the romanesque , the pomp of the baroque. . . THE GRAVE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY (200-300) The Third Century saw Rome in very deep crisis. The relationship between Christianity and the roman…

…conditions in Rome were in constant turmoil, but in the fifteenth century the city became a center of the Renaissance. many artists and architects served the papal court, and Rome, as it is today, is largely a product of their work. Noble and baroque monuments…

…of a much larger space, where the real and the painted worlds become difficult to separate. His trompe l'oeil ('fool-the-eye') approach was continued by many mural painters during the following two centuries, especially in the vast illusionistic baroque ceilings…

…to the clarity of the overall structure of form. Neoclassicism includes the use of a modified sense of tonality, usually enlivened with a large amount of chromaticism, and the use of formal schemes from the baroque and classical eras. The most prominent…