Baroque Sculpture: Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Masterpieces
General Features of Baroque Sculpture
Baroque statues played an important role in architectural decoration, both internal and external. Unlike the axially balanced Renaissance sculptures, they seem to perch on their stone bases, ready to leave at any moment. The faces are suffering, struggling, with tight lips or mouths open in a moan. Muscles are tense, throbbing veins appear under the skin, and even hair and beards, unkempt, capture a mood.
Movement became a real obsession of the Baroque sculptor.
Read MoreEnvironmental Pollution: Noise and Light Contamination
Environmental Pollution: Noise and Light
Measures to Reduce Waste Emission
- The use of technologies with low or zero emission of waste
- R & D programs relating to finding and implementing alternative energy sources and cleaner fuels
- Improving the quality and type of fuels
- Social measures of information
- Legislative measures
- Corrective measures
- Concentration and particle retention
- Gas cleaning systems
- The removal of pollutants through adequate chimneys
Noise Pollution
Noise is an excessive or untimely sound,
Read MoreUnderstanding Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition
Applied Linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related, real-life problems. The academic fields related to applied linguistics are translation, language technology, computer-assisted language learning, second language acquisition, educational linguistics, critical discourse analysis, language policy, situated language practices, rhetoric, and terminology.
Language Variation
Variation in language use among speakers
Read MoreArt, Architecture, Sculpture, Tattoo, and Graffiti: A Comprehensive Study
Principles of Art
Harmony: The principle of design that creates unity within a work of art.
Variety: The use of differences and changes to increase the visual interest of the work.
Emphasis: The focal point of an image, or when one area stands out the most.
Balance: The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.
- Symmetrical: Mirror
- Asymmetrical: No mirror
- Radial: Circle
Movement: The creation of action.
Rhythm: A regular repetition of elements that achieves an effect.
Proportion:
Read MoreThe End of Basque Autonomy: A Legal and Political Analysis
This is a first-hand legal text that was written by the courts and ratified by the King on the 29th of July 1876. The aim of this was to put an end to the Basque provinces’ autonomy.
Political Instability and the Fall of Isabella II
When O’Donnell died, his party, the Liberal Union, now directed by General Serrano, approached the progressives, aiming to put an end to Isabella II’s government. The progressives, under Prim’s direction, and the democrats, in favor of universal suffrage, signed the Ostende
Read MoreVAT on Intra-Community Deliveries and Distance Sales in Spain
Intra-Community Deliveries
Intra-Community deliveries refer to the supply of goods where the state of origin is Spain and the state of destination is another country within the European Union.
As a rule, Intra-Community supplies are exempt, requiring the concurrence of two circumstances:
- The purchaser is a business person who is identified for VAT purposes.
- In the destination state, a Community acquisition is subject to VAT.
The taxpayer is the party who delivers the goods, even if the delivery is made
Read MoreMorphostructural Units: Formation and Evolution
Morphostructural Units: Types
Types of Morphostructural Units
- Sockets: Formed on plains during the primary or Paleozoic era due to erosion of razed mountain ranges from that era’s orogenesis.
- Solid Ancient Mountains: Mountains formed in the Tertiary period by the re-emergence of a block from a plinth as a consequence of Alpine orogenic movements.
- Folding Ridges: Large mountain ridges that arose during the Tertiary orogeny due to the folding of sedimentary material, such as limestone deposited in
Legal Pluralism in the Late Middle Ages: Common and Private Law
Significance of the Relationship Between Common and Private Law
The statutory law (statute = customs, local legal life) should not be understood in isolation but in constant dialectic with the Ius Commune or common law. Private law is the same as own law, based on custom.
- Common Law: These are universal principles based on reason.
- In the 13th century, there was no legal system considered more valid than another. The so-called law was as legitimate as the common law. They were not exclusive.
- It was a
The 1848 Revolutions: Europe’s Democratic Uprisings
The Revolutions of 1848: The Springtime of Peoples
Progress in the 1830s fell short and no longer served the interests of the bourgeoisie. Converging in 1848 were the needs to expand the conquests of the bourgeois, liberal, and nationalist unrest caused by industrialization. The European revolutions were demanding democracy. The revolutionary crisis arrived in a context of economic hardship: bad crops caused soaring commodity prices, which in turn ended up affecting the demand for manufactured products.
Read MoreBaroque Rome: Fountains, Obelisks, and Papal Power
Baroque Rome: Religious Symbolism and Urban Planning
In Baroque Rome, focal points with religious connotations were emphasized through the strategic placement of obelisks and the two great Roman commemorative columns in the forum. Crosses were placed on the obelisks, symbolizing the triumph over ancient religions, and statues of St. Peter and St. Paul were placed atop the columns, signifying the triumph of the Church of Christ over the ancient Roman world. From the height of these focal points, a
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