Renaissance Florence

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-main1.html


This website has so much information about artists,paintings or the history of Florence.In addition, their introduce of paintings are very usrful to learn more details about the Renaissance .

I learned most people in Florence at that time ,they really believed that they lived in a new ages,a really different ages from Dark Ages.And humanists in Florence even styled their city a "new Athen".In Renaissance,painters used many different skills,ideas,and subjects from dark ages.For instance,painters always made the lines in the works disappear at a point,that is a special way to attract our eyes.

The Annunciation-by Fra Carnerale
I chose it because I like its color and composition.It really attract my eyes because I alway see along with its disappearence of line.I like this paintiong skill.






Saint John in the Dessart-by Domenico Voneziano
This painting use another skill which I like too is contrast.The painter colored mountain with white colors, and colored its against color-black.It made us have an impact of visual.I still can not
use this skill skillfully, it isn;t simple at all.

Paintings in Siena

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggnyc/2540184077/
This website has much information about the paintings in Siena.I learned many special skills of painting.This website helps me a lot.

Madonna and Child

This painting is painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna.
I chose it because I like the its background .
The artist may kneaded the paper before painting it to make it looked more textural.This way of painting is very special.
In addition,although Buoninsegna didn't use so many colors on the work,you can always notice it because of its contrast.
That is why I chose it.




http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/310512858/


The Last Supper

This painting is also from Buoninsegna.
There were many paintings of The Last Supper in this time,but this one is one of the most special ones.It makes people fell another atmosphere from this paintiong.
It looks very plain,but you can "enter" it.The artist used more linesto show the perspective,but it still looked a little flat.
I think that perhaps it is the most different style from between then and now.
(Until now,I still don't know why there are circles over some man's head.
I guess that the artist may want to show the status of them...it comfuse me a lot.

Giotto

http://www.giottodibondone.org/home-2-24-1-0.html

The site doesn't have so much information about the introduce of Giotto,but it has a lot of great information about his paintings.

Kiss Of Judas

This painting is one of the most famous works from Giotto.

The artist used some techniques to make people foucus the action on Jesus and Judas.

You can notice that the man on the right side points them,and the weapons of the soilders also

make us pay more attention on what Juda did.This way is very sucessful.

In this painting,you may also find a few angry emoions on Jesus's face. In addition ,there are some interesting details in this picture,like the man on the left side ,I think he may wants to cut the other man's ear.

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Giotto_di_Bondone
This website is good that I spent more time on it.It is different from the first site,it has nuch information about Giotto's life and his style on his paintings.

The Mourning Of Crist
His art was extremely innovative,you can see the reason in the
picture.There are some new elements in it,different from another paintings in dark ages .
This painting also use the same techniques to make people notice the subject,but you can see more lines in this work.I think this one may painted in early Renaissance.The color of this painting isn't very bright and beautiful,however,it brings a peaceful feeling to me.This one is one of my famous paintings from Giotto.

Renaissance

This is one of the greatest art works from da Vinci- the Mona Lisa.


I think no one in the world doesn't know this great art work.
At first,Leonardo spent about four months with it .
If you look at the woman's eyes carefully,you must find that no matter which
sight you take,she is like looking at you.

That is very breathtaking.
And that is why Ilike this painting,it makes me feel like you can't know what the woman's real emotions.

But there is one thing that is strange in this painting,do you notice that?
The background of this painting doesn't match the subject.
They are different.Until now ,I can't find the reason.
I think that Leonardo da Vinci may hide his real thoughts in this works.


Mona Lisa's mystery smile










This picture is painted by a great artist-Michelangelo


Michelangelo is a painter,and also a sculpter.
He made many famous art works ,like "David", who desn't know this work?No one.
His production of painting are almost make for church, this painting is an example.
This paiting shows us the transmigration of a person's life.
In addition,in the bottom of this painting,that is the horrible hell,the people on the hell expose
the afraid emotions.According to this painting,you can know the cruelty in "Dark Ages",so I
post it.

code breakers

http://ciphermachines.com/ciphermachines/purple.html
This website is easy to compare different ciphers from different countries.Like the purple cipher of Japanese or the US army M-209 cipher.

I learnrd in WWII,every countries had each special codes to write some importamt information.
If a country could break the codes from the others, it would control the battle.



the code machine of Japan,they always called it“purple cipher”


http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm
This website is a little difficult to read because there isn't any pictures can help me to learn.
However,this website is also good.

I learned the US usually used Indian's language to make the code.If you didin't understant that special language,you couldn't break it .So the code of the US didn't broken by another countries at that time.

http://translate.google.com.tw/translate?prev=hp&hl=zh-TW&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.navy.mil%2Ffaqs%2Ffaq61-2.htm&sl=en&tl=zh-TW&history_state0=
This is a webpage from the same website,but I think it is useful for me to learn more ,so I post it.

I learned at that time,Indians were really important.There are some Indians of the US who helped the army to write the code in this website.According to the introduce of them, I know that they all were the greatest hero of Allies.

I can't find much information about “code breakers”,so I just find some website about codes makers .....

Prisoners Of War

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/pow_camps_japan.htm
This website is easy enough for me to read all the information in it.In addition,the pictures in this website help me a lot to learn more about prisoner camp.

I learned the war camps almost encircled with barbed wire and high wooden fencing.
If someone attempted to escape ,they would be execute in front of the other prisoners.How terrible！

the prisoner who attempted to escape



http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/german_pow_camps.htm
This is a webpage from the same website.It talks abot the prisoners of German prisoner camp.
The webpage shows us some camps in German.

I learned the prisoners in camps in German was given two meal a day,thin soup and break bread.Although the meals isn't good enough for a 「people」, the prisoners was contented because prisoners were humble then.

prisoners took the train to the cruel camps....





the view is really good .It's music also nice.........

Spies in WWII

World War 2 (WWII) Japanese Spy Film: Black Dragons - The most popular videos are here
This view is good.It talks about the spies of Janpanese.


http://www.lanl.gov/history/wartime/spies.shtml

This website talks about four spies's history in WWII.I got much information from it.

I learned a spy should spend much time to get a country's trust, almost 5 to 10 years.

They have to pass a lot of questioning,also should hide their normal identity,life ,even their family.It is really a harsh mission.

a spy from Soviet.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/02/ED128240.DTL
This website is easy to read.It is a discussion from a spy .However , it doesn't have any pictures.

I learned that a spy has to shoulder a lot of danger.If you are found , you will lose your whole life.In addition, If one spy of a country are found,the government will questioning all people from the same place .