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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
...examples, but also to the Renaissance image of the “ship of fools,” or to the idea of the ship and voyage as a metaphor for the passage of life. Toward the mid-seventeenth century the stiff “mannerism” of these early artists gave way to a more naturalistic style, based upon direct observation of natural effects of weather, cloud formations, atmosphere, light, and water, in compositions that featured a significantly lower horizon line, to maximize the amount of the pictorial surface given over to the treatment of the sky. Subject matter also became more modest...
War and Peace in American Popular Culture Reference library
Paul S. Boyer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
...for feasts, it suits for fun, And just as well for fighting. George M. Cohan 's adaptation, “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” introduced in a 1904 Broadway musical, captured the jingoistic mood of the turn of the twentieth century. The World War II film Yankee Doodle Dandy showcased the song in a patriotic production number. “The Ballad of Jane McCrea” recounted the 1777 killing of a New York woman by Wyandot Indians allied with the British. John Vanderlyn commemorated the incident in his 1804 painting The Death of Jane McCrea , an early example of the...
