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Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Bust of Louis XIV
The bust of Louis XIV is a marble portrait by the Italian artist Bernini.
The king's head is tilted upwards and slightly to the right; his hair falls gracefully over his shoulders. Displaying such characteristics, the sculptor associates Louis XIV with the sun. The gesture symbolizes the ideal monarch that represents, firmness, benevolence, and equity. The bust still remains at Versailles.
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Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Napoleon Crossing the Alps is the tittle given to the painting of David.
He was considered as the official painter of Napoelon I.
This painting represents an idealized view of the Napoleon while he crosses the Alps with his army through the Great St. Bernard Pass in May 1800.
Through the painting, we are invited to see the determination and control of the Emperor. -
Verdi: Nabucco
Nabucco is an Italian opera with four acts composed in 1841 by Verdi. This opera is based on biblical stories and follows the plight of Jews who are oppressed and assaulted by the Babylonian King Nabucco.
Verdi composed this opera to draw a parallel between the conditions of the Jewish with the suppressed Italians under the Austrian Empire. Verdi is calling for a united Italiy.
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"We want you"
"Lord Kitchener Wants you" was a 1914 advertisement by Alfred Leete which was developed into a recruitment poster by the English governement. On the poster, we can see the British Secretary of State for War pointing at the viewer calling him to enlist in the army and fight againt the Central Powers. In a way, this poster is quite significant because it makes people feel directly concern with the events at that time. -
Hitler at a Nazi Convention in Nuremberg
The Nuremberg Rally was an annual rally of the Nazi Party in Germany. This picture is from the year 1935. It was called the "Rally of Freedom" referring to the reintroduction of compulsory military service. These events served to establish the Nazi propaganda.
During the event, Hitler was seen as a "Chief", who could unite Germany and at the same time enroll youths in his ideology. -
Nazi film propaganda
Der Ewige Jude or The Eternal Jew is an antisemitic German Nazi propaganda film directed by Fritz Hippler. The film contrasts the Nazi ideal of a pure race, superior, with the Jews, an inferior, alien, parasite community that should be eliminated.
This film under the Nazi regime shows how much Hitler's regime was able to use all forms of art productions such as film, poster, performance, and music to advance his project of the "final solution".
