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The motif of the uncovered female breast is ubiquitous in art of all ages and cultures. Modern analysis of breast imagery tends to be biased by the sexual significance that breasts have now. However in Italian renaissance art the exposed breast appears in many different manifest…

Historically, women and their role in life have been defined by the prevailing culture in which they lived. This dissertation questions the validity of those definitions by looking at a woman who did not accept cultural limitations but instead lived by her own law: Shakespeare's…

There are a significant number of musical compositions for violin by composers who used folk songs and dances of various cultures in their music, including works by George Enescu, Béla Bartók and György Ligeti. Less known are pieces that draw on the plethora of melodies and rhyt…