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Adam and Eve Eating the Forbidden Fruit and God Discovering Them, north doors trumeau relief, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy

Description: The relief decoration on the north doors of the Orvieto Cathedral show Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit and God discovering them. Large deeply-carved foliage runs across the top of the relief.
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Date: 1290/1330
Creator: Maitani, Lorenzo
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St. Catherine

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Date: 1505~/1510~
Creator: Riemenschneider, Tilman
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A Bishop Teaching

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Date: 1470~/1490~
Creator: Master of the View of Ste Gudule
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A Bishop Teaching

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Date: 1470~/1490~
Creator: Master of the View of Ste Gudule
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A Bishop Teaching

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Date: 1470~/1490~
Creator: Master of the View of Ste Gudule
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A Bishop Teaching

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Date: 1470~/1490~
Creator: Master of the View of Ste Gudule
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Bust of a Man Leaning on His Elbow

Description: The sculpture depicts an adult man resting his head on his right hand with his elbow resting on his left hand. The bust has a grainy texture, a brown natural color, and is not painted.
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Date: 1467
Creator: Lerch, Nicolas
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A God of the Sea

Description: The patina on the head is black and the man's gaze is straight up and to the subject's right. The man has a full head of longish hair and a mustache and beard. He appears about middle age. The head is mounted on a cylindrical pedestal base.
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Date: unknown
Creator: Donatello
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A God of the Sea

Description: The head is realistically rendered. The man has longish hair and a mustache and beard. The head is mounted on a cylindrical base and the man appears to be about middle age.
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Date: unknown
Creator: Donatello
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Young Saint John

Description: The marble bust depicts a young man looking to his left. The sculpture is not painted and is set on a marble base the echoes the silhouette of the bottom of the bust. The young boy's hair is curled and his clothing is depicted in detail.
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Date: unknown
Creator: Mino da Fiesole
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Dish (Coppa)

Description: The dish is decorated with blue, grayish black, greens, yellow, orange, white, with gold and ruby luster. A haloed figure of a woman wearing blue holds an infant, presumably the Virgin Mary and Jesus.
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Date: 1530
Creator: Andreoli, Giorgio
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English Renaissance Epithalamia

Description: The classical genre of marriage poems called epithalamia appeared in England in the late sixteenth century. The English epithalamia of the Renaissance form a closely related body of literature. This work will be a close analysis of this small body of English Renaissance poetry.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Corse, Larry B.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The History of the Trombone from the Renaissance to the Early Romantic Period

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to show the development of the trombone, in form and music, and its use in the orchestra through the times of Beethoven and Schubert. Since very little material has been presented concerning the history of the trombone, it is hoped that the illustrations and explanations contained herein will be a contribution toward a representation of music from different composers and periods. The music covered gives a picture of the use of the trombone from the Renaissance thr… more
Date: August 1952
Creator: Highfill, Richard
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Mandora

Description: The narrow body musical instrument has a highly carved body with two standing figures.
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Date: 1420~
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Claviorganum

Description: The two instruments, an organ and a virginal, are built into a single cabinet.
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Date: 1598
Creator: Laurentium Hauslaib
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The Aesthetics of Sin: Beauty and Depravity in Early Modern English Literature

Description: This dissertation argues that early modern writers such as William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, George Herbert, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell played a critical role in the transition from the Neoplatonic philosophy of beauty to Enlightenment aesthetics. I demonstrate how the Protestant Reformation, with its special emphasis on the depravity of human nature, prompted writers to critique models of aesthetic judgment and experience that depended on high faith in human goodness and rationality.… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Jeffrey, Anthony Cole
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Corporeal Judgment in Shakespeare's Plays

Description: In this dissertation, I examine the complex role that the body played in early modern constructions of judgment. Moving away from an overreliance on anti-theatrical texts as the authority on the body in Shakespeare's plays, my project intervenes in the field Shakespearean studies by widening the lens through which scholars view the body's role in the early modern theater. Through readings of four plays—Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale—I demonstrate that Shakespeare uses a wi… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Cephus, Heidi Nicole
Partner: UNT Libraries
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