Dinesh's photos with the keyword: A HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCEITY

Jerome Bosch: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch Christ Before Pilate. Pilate (right) grasps the picture of water as he prepares to wash his hands. The peasant faces around Christ are vicious, grotesque, even bestial, perhaps signifying humanity’s stupid and blindness. (Princeton University)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fight_Between_Carnival_and_Lent The literary theme of the struggle between personifications of Shrove Tuesday and Lent dates as far back as the year 400 with the Psychomachia. The 13th Century French poem La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage describes a symbolic battle between different foods, meat against fish.[2] A likely graphic precursor of the painting is a 1558 Frans Hogenberg print in which the personifications of lean and fat are driven together on carts by their supporters. The supporters attack each other with fish, waffles, cookies and eggs.

Calvinist Church, Nuremburg Stark simplicity and the absence of all ornamentation characterized early Protestant churches. With the men seated on the left and right, women in the center, all eyes and ears focus on the Bible on the lectern, the preacher in the pulpit, and the bare communion table. (Germanishes National Musuem)

According to the Florentine artist, biographer, and Medici courtier Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), this painting contains the most faithful likenesses portrayed of Cosimo (kneeling before the Christ-Child) and Lorenzo (far right) Though the subject is Christian, the painting has a secular spirit, introduces individual portrait (Botticelli himself is in the far right-hand corner,) and serves to glorify the Medici family (Alinart/Scala/Art Resource)

Between two busy periods in Rome, Michelangelo visited Florence (1516-1545) to work on the tombs of Guilino and Lorenzo de’ Medici. Here Lorenzo, dressed in Roman armor, presides over the sensuous figures of Dawn and Twilight. On this monument, the contemporary Vasari said, “Where in the world’s history has any statue shown such art?” (Giraudon / Art Resources)

Figure 1 Boccaccio's vision of Petrarch. Petrarch was the hero and inspiration of generations of humanists: writers, scholars and book collectors

In this fifteenth-century fresco the poet, crowned with the wreath of poet laureate, holds the book containing the opening lines of his immortal ‘Commedia.’ On the left is Hell and the mountain of purgatory; on the right the city of Florence (Alinari / Art Resources)

Joan of Arc Later considered the symbol of the French state in its struggle against the English, Joan of Arc here carries a sword in one hand and a banner with the oral symbol of the fleur-de-lis in the other. Her face, which scholars believe to a good resemblance, shows inner strength and calm determination. (Archives Nationales, Paris)

The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth century Europe Note the routes that the bubonic plague took across Europe. How do you account for the fact that several regions were spread the 'dreadful death'?

The Plague-Stricken Even as the dead were wrapped in shrouds and collected in carts for mass burial, the disease stuck to others. The man collapsing has the symptomatic buba on his beck. As Saint Sabestian pleads for mercy (above) a winged devil, bearer of the plague, attacks an angel. (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore)

{Fingers, spoons and knives were still the most popular choices when it came to actual eating. Some of the earliest known table forks made their debut in Ancient Egypt. The Qijia culture (2400-1900 BC) that resided in part of present day China also are known to have used forks.} Source: WWW