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Written by William Shakespeare
This is his longest and most popular in literature and is his most performed, by the Royal Shakespeare Company. -
South India, probably Madura area, early 17th century, ivory
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by Miguel de Cervantes. This has been onsidered literature’s first great novel Spain's Golden Age and serves as a foundation for Western literature. It is considered among the best of literatures ever written.
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by William Shakespeare. The is one of Shakespeare’s ocre tragedies he has written, being considered one of the most important.
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by William Shakespeare. This is the shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies. It is set in Scotland, and it exemplifies the damaging physical and psychological effects of political desire in stature on wanting power to have power, per se.
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by Daniel Arnaudet Légende, French.
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by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Still Life of Flowers; contains lilies, tulips, roses, and carnations, are have been painted with almost perfection with proportion to science.
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Jean-Baptiste Besard, Branle- Branle gay, Joos de Momper II
by Jean-Baptiste Besard
Played the Lute during the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Died in 1617. -
by Anthony van Dyck
Portrays the seduction of Antiope by Jupiter. Satyrs and nymphs which form two opposites at the most extremes in Greek mythology. They are joined by their instinctive natures. -
by Salomon de Brosse. In Paris, built between 1615 and 1620.
This was supposed to be the home for Marie de Médicis, mother of Louis XIII of France. -
By Artemisia Gentileschi, of Florence, Italy. She is considered to be the finest female painter of the Baroque period. In the Book of Judith, she is said to have seduced the Syrian general and beheaded him.
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Cessez mortels de soupirer by Pierre Guedron
French singer and composer, dominated music under Louis XIII. Died 1620. -
by Peter Paul Rubens, Commemorating the French queen Marie de’ Medici, by way of secular and mythological means.
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Ave Maria
by Cornelius Verdonck
Flemish, Played Italian and Netherlandish music during the late Renaissance. Died 1625 -
by Pieter Claesz, The Vanitas Painting, Still Life, 1630
These images were common in Medieval art. These were very morbid and reflected the death and decay as an obsession and a constant inevitable reminder during this time. -
by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
A female human having a hideous face and snakes in place of hair. Anyone looking into her face would turn to stone. She was beheaded by Perseus, who continued to use this ability as a weapon, carrying her head. -
by Adam Lenckhardt -ivory Carving,Baroque style
Cleopatra was the last acting pharoah before the Roman Empire was established. -
by Miguel Berrocal
This was made by only viewing pictures of the Cardinal, and then sent to him. -
Near Paris, by François Mansart.
Considered to be one of the greatest architectural structures in France. -
Nos esprits libres et contents by Antoinne Boesset
French, composer of secular music. Died 1645. -
by Nicolas Poussin
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Title page of a 1647 printing of The Westminster Confession of Faith. Drawn up by the 1646 Westminster Assembly as part of the Westminster Standards to be a confession of the Church of England. This was for those reformed to Christianity in the Presbyterian Churches of Scotland.
