But how does this portrait stand against his other female portraits? ... The Lady portrait has the subject looking off to the right, her left, of the painting, making us wonder what she is looking at. ... The Lady has been identified as Cecilia Gallerani. ... The Lady also has a more known symbolic meaning of purity. ... But why is it his most famous female portrait? ...
""When you've lived as long as I you"ll see that every human being has his shell and that you must take the shell into account"" (ln.1-2). This first line of this excerpt, from Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady, accurately depicts the most valid point in the essay. Madame Merle believes ...
In contrast with this peculiar Asian lady, Mrs. ... Such regularity, acting like a wave eddying from her head, entangles us into the depth of the portrait. ... The young lady is turning her back to us, but only for one moment. ... The yellow over-sized bonnet, which is the same size as the young lady's head, draws our attention. ... The Painters explicitly display two different styles -stillness versus liveliness- for these two portraits. ...
In both versions, the Lady of Shalott is a body of creativity. ... The Lady of Shalott is an artist of both the loom and of images. ... In addition, in this earlier version, the portrait of the Lady of Shalott is not the only concept described with more detail and adornment. ... In this version, the Lady of Shalott is awarded the last word. ... In the first version, the Lady is adorned with pearls and velvet; therefore, this decorated version of the Lady leaves the readers with a very specific and more concrete image of what the Lady of Shalott looks like. ...
The Squire's portrait contains thematic meaning along with satire and irony. ... "Of time, in hope to win his lady's grace", (Line 90) shows that he was concerned with his appearance to try and win a lady's liking. ... Chaucer also used irony in each of his portraits. ... The portrait of the Squire shows how much different he is in comparison to his father the Knight. The Squire's portrait also shows the thematic messages of irony and satire that Chaucer puts in. ...
She likes to leave the possibilities for her portraits open. ... This is especially obvious as she leaves her portraits untitled. ... In Sherman's second self-portrait she is lying on the floor with a cutout of the newspaper in her hand. This portrait also has many different ways it can be interpreted. ... The lady just moved in to her new home and has no furniture and that is why she is lying on the floor. ...
The speaker in the poem is an Italian duke who ordered the murder of his wife and is at the offset of the poem showing off the portrait to his future son-in-law. Browning lets the reader know in a roundabout way that the duke only shows the portrait of his late wife to select strangers. ... The speaker tries to convey to the people that he shows the portrait to that he is in control of everything that takes place in his household. ... He did not like it when Fra Pandolf, the artist who painted the portrait said: "Fra Pandolf chanced to say Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too m...
Andrea Marcial Professor Gina Rho English 111 18 Feb. 2015 Aung San Suu Kyi In the film, The Lady, is based on true historical events that happen in Burma. ... The Lady is an excellent movie to watch for many reasons. ... According to the "Lady review: Beeson biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi ," Mick LaSalle argues that "The Lady is a portrait in moral and physical courage, a sort of analysis of what constitutes greatness.... Work Cited The Lady. ... "Lady Review: Beeson Biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi." ...
I am actually glad that I was given this assignment because I read a short story of his called " The Oval Portrait," and come to think about it, it was about a man looking at a portrait of a beautiful woman, and he got so into it that he almost thought that she was real. ... So, now that I read that I know that the lady in the portrait was probably his wife, or his cousin, Virginia. And the man looking at the portrait and remembering it was probably actually him. ...
Lady Macbeth, the wife of the title character in Shakespeare's Macbeth, also uses seduction to get her husband to kill his king. ... It is the seduction by Lady Macbeth that pushes Macbeth over the edge and makes him decide to go forth with the killing. This excerpt shows some of Lady Macbeth's tactics. ... The Virgin Mary is a portrait of good. ... Back then, they held positions such as Lady of the House, and Queen. ...
He is young and lusty, takes great care of his outward appearance and is always busy of staying in his lady's grace. ... True, he has seen some military action, but it was to impress his lady not his lord god. ... However, the Squire from The Canterbury Tales does not settle into disputes for he is "In hope to win thereby his lady's grace-. ... Character is revealed in their portraits, their tales, and their behavior and remarks along the way. ...
The Medieval Church Cathedrals and Medieval Man Ideal geometric shapes in architecture have imparted a feeling of order and harmony since the Greeks. The Romans, using only geometry and the repeated use of the semicircular arch, later built and empire. The medieval flying buttress was born fro...
She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945. ... Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the First Lady through her active participation in American politics. ... The following chapters expand more on her trials and give details of Eleanor's life prior to becoming First Lady. ... This biography offers a clear, concise and moving portrait of Eleanor and hits all of the main points of her life. ... This reader would definitely recommend this book to anyone with an interest in learning about the woman people called "The First...
"The Rape of Lock" by Alexander Pope is the most perfect example of mock-epic genre. The poem functions as a satire on interesting facts of fashionable life. The Rape of the Lock was written because of a brawl between two Roman Catholic families, the Fermors, and the Petres caused by an irrelevant i...
Realism is a literary form of writing. It can be defined as "the faithful representation of reality" or "verisimilitude", which means genuineness or similarity. Realism also means a particular kind of subject matter, especially the portrayal of middle-class life. Studies of documented history an...
Thus, Las Meninas portrays the life of Princess Margarita and the portraits of King Philip and Queen Mariana appear on the painting. ... The Allegory of the Outbreak of War is an example of propaganda because it is trying to convey a political message, for example the lady in black on the left side of the painting depicts Europe, which has suffered from the miseries of war. ...
"The deformity in the portrait of Richard from the royal collection in Windser castle has recently been discovered to be a later alteration "the real Richard had no physical deformities- (Spinak). ... "Some historians speculate that Richard and Lady Anne had something of a childhood romance' long before they were married- (Spinak). ... Changing history, Richard played the role of a villainous lover who wood Lady Anne over the dead body of her husband Henry VI. ...
A Dutch warship brought the first cargo of twenty Blacks to Virginia in 1619. Millions of other Blacks were torn from their African homes and carried to the New World before the slave trade was ended. The Africans brought here against their will were not born slaves. In their homelands they we...
"Presently a small boy came walking along the path--an urchin of nine or ten. The child, who was diminutive for his years, had an aged expression of countenance, a pale complexion, and sharp little features. He was dressed in knickerbockers, with red stockings, which displayed his poor little sp...
Until his brothers' death, Henry was deliberately kept from the public eye. He was after all, the second son. Much more time was spent on Arthur's preparation to the throne, so Henry 's thrust into the spotlight became a shock. Henry was educated with intent of him joining the church, not on beco...
The artist thought that the Monarchs were sitters coming to get their portrait painted, but he was wrong, for they were inexperienced models wanting a job from him instead. ... The artist realizes after painting Miss Churm several times, " she could represent anything, from a fine lady to a shepherdess; she had the faculty and she might have had a fine voice or long hair- (James 749). ...
