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Could you give us ONE way in which each painting reflects its time period?
Caravaggio's painting is reflective of the Baroque era of its creation because it is more intimate and psychologically complex than Michelangelo's treatment of the same subject. Caravaggio's painting reflects the era's increased focus upon the inner life of individual, rather than on spiritual life in a social context. There are only a few people in the frame of Caravaggio's work. The figures and the spotlighting of Saul's face and arms draw the viewer's attention upon Saul alone. The gazers do not seem to understand what has transpired, and what has taken place within Saul's character. Michelangelo's work shows God acting like a human being in a very physical manner. His work reflects the Renaissance's confidence in the ability of humankind to portray and understand the divine. Saul's conversion is rendered in an active, physical manner, in a way that is clearly seen by the collective sea of humanity in Michelangelo's picture. But Caravaggio's treatment shows how the Catholic faith affected by the Reformation's new focus on the soul's interior life.
Question: Why are we shown the rear of the horse so predominantly?
Life is ordinary -- even during seismic events there is always humor, ugliness, and the everyday -- and the rear ends of animals. A horse in the Bible had the same basic anatomy as a horse today! The perspective is slightly distorted, to reflect Saul's own confused view of the world, and also the two other protagonists' view of Saul. They do not see what has happened to Saul's soul, only that a man has fallen off of his horse. Saul does not look dignified, because he has fallen off of his horse, and looks like a drunken man, thus the back view of the animal reinforces this perception in the eyes of the viewer. The undignified position of Saul and his horse also reminds the viewer of Saul's undignified life before he was converted to Christianity. Before Saul was converted, he persecuted Christians, and he only because a saint after he was struck off of his horse in an undignified way.
Saul Kripke starts his work by expressly emphasizing the purpose of his argumentation. The paper is a "puzzle about names and beliefs." The first section of the paper deals with the philosophical background that will help put the puzzle in a proper framework. Kripke discusses Millianism and Fregeanism as two philosophical currents that attempt to understand semantics, the meaning of names and what names actually confer to an individual or
It was more important for Saul to be baptized than to eat and therefore, spirituality is more important that even physical life. Next, the Book of Acts stated "He stayed some time with the disciples in Damascus. Without delay he proclaimed Jesus publicly in the synagogues, declaring him to he the Son of God. All those who heard were astounded." (Acts 9.20-21) It is no wonder that those who heard Saul,
Saul Kripke, The ProdigySaul Kripke is hailed as the greatest living philosopher in the analytic philosophy tradition. He has made major contributions to the fields of logic, philosophy of language, modality, and truth (Carneades). His brilliance over the course of his career shows how and why this has been the case.Kripke was born in 1940 in Long Island, New York, and was the child of a rabbi and a Jewish
Paul The Apostle Paul (formerly Saul of Tarsus) is arguably the most influential member of the early Christian church outside of Jesus himself, because Paul's teaching and missionary work laid the social and theological foundations for the worldwide religion known as Christianity. Not only did Paul expand and refine Jesus' message, he carried this message to a much wider audience than ever before, preaching to Jews and Gentiles alike while traveling
Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976 for, among other things, the ability to give values a place side by side with facts in literature, unlike realism. The import of his work was seen as creating awareness that only the right values can give human kind freedom and responsibility, necessary foundations for building of faith in the future and a desire for
Perhaps that is Augie's final flaw - to remain the eternal optimist even when there is nothing to be optimistic about. If he has learned his lessons well from the other characters in the novel, then he will know if his life will turn out successfully, and that he does not have to fit into the perfect model of the American male to still succeed and be happy in
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