Jean Desire Gustave Courbet, famously known as Courbet, was born on June 10, 1910, in Ornans, Doubs, France.

Courbet was born into a relatively wealthy family in a relatively small town in France but close to the Swiss border. It had about three thousand people around the Realism period. A population where everyone knows each other, so long-standing ties. Perception and aesthetics come to play here because Courbet sees Ornan as a place with a great sense of community and portrayed in his painting, “The Burial at Ornans.”

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン), or better known in the west, Sailor Moon is a Japanese Manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi in 1991. The original anime run of Sailor Moon was premiered in Japan on March 7, 1992 in Japan and serves as the place of origin for the internation pop culture icon Sailor Moon and her and the anime's impact on Fashion, aesthetics, and perceptions of magical girl genre and girl's fantasy romance.

The Palace of Westminster is the home to the UK Parliament. This building is in the neo-Gothic style and was almost entirely destroyed in 1834 due to a raging fire. This gothic style of the Palace of Westminster is very different from our own neo-classical style that almost all American government buildings are designed to imitate. The neo-Gothic style is more traditional and conservative, which was appealing to the English in power at that time. The Palace's style complimented the style of Westminster Abbey, which is right across the road and was there first.