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10/31/23: Scandinavian Art Show

11/6/23: Video Art Around The World

11/29/23: Lecture: History of Art

12/1/23: Installations 2023 Indie Film Festival

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The GOLDEN GLOBE

Our project is centered on art throughout the Golden Ages. This includes Greek, Roman, Islamic, and lastly the Medieval Renaissance golden ages. Our intention is to find correlations between these times by means of technology, culture, and social advancements. Art is a very pivotal component to a society, by researching communities present within in each of these societies, we can make a general assumption as to why these “golden ages” actually occurred.

Jan van Eyck, The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin

A Signet of Persia's King Darius

Etruscan Tomb of the Leopards

Mithras Slaying the Bull, 200 C.E.

Emperor Severus and His Family, 200 C.E.

Praxiteles' Statue of Aprhodite, 4th Century B.C.E.

The Wolf Suckling Romulus and Remus, 5th Century B.C.E.

c.691 C.E. - The Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem

c.480 B.C.E. - Greek Against Persian in Hand-to-Hand Combat

c.1479-1480 C.E. - Portrait of Mehmed II

c.800 C.E. - Surah 21 of the Qur'an

Emily Fero
May 1, 2016
1 min read

"More than a holy book, the Qur'an represents for Muslims the very words of God that were dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel" (The Making of the West 251). It is stated that the last verses of the surah depicted here are created with ink, color, and gold on parchment. The use of gold in the text would have shown how wealthy a nation the Islamic Empire had become during this time period, and that its resources could be spent on other things as opposed to barely making by.

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