Title | Creator | Date | Era | City | Country | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme | |
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Black Stallion | Director: Carroll Ballard | 1979 | Sardinia | Italy |
Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature. |
Man and nature in harmony. At least this is the theme of the first half of the movie. See "Description" and "Context" info below for more on this comment. |
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Niobe | Sculptor: unknown | c. 200 BC | Rome | Italy |
Human action is beautiful. |
Life is movement. |
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Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally) | Composer: Alfredo Catalani | 1892 | 1851-1900 | Milan | Italy |
Longing is the overall emotional tone of the music. The lyric gives reason to this overall tone. |
Sadness at having to leave forever the place where you were happy once. |
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Wisdom and Strength | Painter: Paolo Veronese | 1580c | 1500s | Venice? | Italy |
Sumptuousness is good, and the human form is good. |
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Three Graces | Sculptor: Antonio Canova | 1814 | 1800s | Italy |
The female human form is beautiful, graceful, ideal. |
Quiet repose and sisterly love. The piece exudes a quiet elegance and peacefulness amidst the complex three-dimensional composition. The inclusion of "sisterly love" is less certain, except that taking into account the mythological background of the piece. It can be argued that one should not take that into account, so perhaps that should not formally be included in the theme. |
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Old Man with a Young Boy | Painter: Domenico Ghirlandaio | 1490 | 1400s | Florence | Italy |
Human companionship or family closeness is real. |
Quiet familial love. (A grandfather (perhaps) gazing upon a grandson, and vice versa, in a clear moment of happy communion.) |
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Monster, The | Director: Roberto Benigni | 1994 | 1991-2010 | Italy |
Just laughter and more of the same. |
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Laocoon (Laocoön and His Sons) | Sculptor: Agesander | 1st century BCE to 1st century CE | 500 BCE - 1 CE | Rome | Italy |
Life is a desperate, agonizing struggle. |
The heroic but agonizing defeat of Men. This sculpture certainly represents at the same time the heroic nature of men but cast into an impossible situation that can only be tragic. |
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La Gomena (Towing a Boat) | Painter: Ettore Tito | 1909 | 1900s | Italy |
There is great effort in life, and a woman can be the master of it. This painting is a curious combination of romantic heroism and 19th century genre naturalism. It has a visual dynamism and dramatic content that is strongly romantic, yet the subject is the prosaic task of pulling a boat out of the water. |
The will and the power of a woman. Implacable determination. |
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Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo (Royal Church of St. Lawrence) | Architect: Guarino Guarini | 1680 | 1600s | Torino (Turin) | Italy |
The world is perfected. The joy of seeing complexity that is simplicity, i.e., that the rich complex vision arises from simple elements which because of their arrangement provide layers of visual thrills. |
Complex, soaring geometric order. |
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3 Idiots | Screenwriter: Chopra Vidhu Vinod | 2009 | 1991-2010 | India |
Life can be fun and productive and exciting. As is true in some other Bollywood features, this story and the ideas behind it about pursuing the good life, has an honesty and clarity and benevolence that is not part of the U.S. movie scene. |
Be what you want to be; follow your passion in life |
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Tzena Tzena Tzena | Miron - Parish: | 1941 | 1900s | Israel |
Joyous celebration |
Joyous celebration |
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Euphronios Krater aka Sarpedon Krater | Vase Painter: Euphronios | 515 BC | Greece |
Exquisitely beautiful hardship. |
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Riace Bronze A | Myron?: | c.460 BCE | 500 BCE - 1 CE | Greece |
Man is strong and indomitable |
Intelligence, Pride, Strength = Man |
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Chariot of Apollo | Sculptor: Jean Baptiste (1630-1700) Tuby | 1668-1670 | 1600s | Versailles | France |
The world has thrilling powerful men of action. There are no limits to what can be achieved. |
Elegant, physical power. The fantasy ability to fly through water and air with grace and ease. |
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Eiffel Tower | Designer: Gustave Eiffel | 1889 | Paris | France |
The works of Man are thrilling. |
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Rose Window - La Sainte-Chapelle (aka The Holy Chapel | Designer: Unknown | 1248 | Paris, Ile de la Cite | France |
The world is open and bright and colorful and gay. |
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Sainte-Chapelle | Architect: Anonymous | 1248 | Paris, Ile de la Cite | France |
The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. |
The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. |
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Tell No One (aka Ne le dis à personne) | Director: Guillaume Canet | 2006 | 1991-2010 | France |
Life is sad, and controlled by mysterious corruption. |
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Helene Arpels Dress | Designer: Maggy Rouff | 1937 | 1901-1950 | Paris | France |
Elegance and richness of detail |
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Cyrano de Bergerac | Playwright: Edmond Rostand | 1897 | 1900s | France |
Life can be exciting. Life can be grand, literally. There is also some great sadness about consummated love, since it is portrayed as unreachable. |
The importance of independence and independent thought. Compromise is deadly to one's soul. Sub-themes: a) Doubt of one's goodness because of an incidental fact (physical feature) is terribly damaging and tragic. b) Helping someone by faking reality is damaging and can come to no good. |
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La Grande Nevrose | Loysel, Jacques: | c.1896 | 1800s | Paris | France |
The dynamic female body is beautiful and exciting. Although it may not explicitly suggest it, the nude and its tense position could be felt as erotic. |
An animated female body is a vessel of perfection. |
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Shade, The | Rodin, Auguste: | 1880-1904 | 1900s | Paris | France |
Life is a gruesome trial. There is no hope. |
The world destroys man. (Some unknown evil force is destroying this young strong man.) Given that the sculpture is titled as a "Shade" and is related to the Group sculpture "Gates of Hell", one can presume the evil is some unnamed condition that can overpower life and cause destruction of the good. |
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Burgos Cathedral Crossing | Architect: Unknown | 1569 circa | 1500s | Burgos | Spain |
God is order and reason and light. |
The spirit of god is rational, uplifting and rich in detail |
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Biviel Shoe BV2773 | Biviel Design: | 2010 | 2000s | Germany |
Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty. |