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Artistic Innovations Of Renaissance Florentine Painters
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Artistic Innovations of Renaissance Florentine
Painters During the Renaissance, many new,
different styles of painting were developed. Many
of these techniques were perfected by Florentine
painters. Some of these styles techniques include
perspective, life-like human forms, realistic
looking objects and chiaroscuro. These
developments began to form in the early
Quattrocento and were slowly perfected by a long
flow of artists. Their influences included new
scientific discoveries as well as new ou...
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Teachings Of The Church Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Italian Renaissance was driven by a force of
great strides in humanity. This was a time for a
re-awakening of educated thinking, great artistic
endeavors, and an empowering factor of humanism to
use free will to govern one's future rather than
allowing the church to dictate the correct path in
life. The city of Florence became the center for
much of this activity, where artists and scholars
were sponsored royally by like-minded families of
great wealth and social power. More emphasis was
put...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Early Renaissance
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The "rebirth" of art in Italy, otherwise known as
the Renaissance, was connected with the
rediscovery of ancient philosophy, literature, and
science and the development of methods in these
fields using keen observation. Greater awareness
of classical knowledge created a new way to learn
by direct study of the natural world. Because of
this, religious themes became increasingly
important to artists, and with the large interest
in the Middle Ages came a new idea for subjects
drawn from Greek and R...
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Jacopo Della Quercia Simone Da Colle Work
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There is no doubt that those in every city who by
their merits obtain fame become a blessed light to
those who are born after them. For there is
nothing that arouses the minds of men, and makes
them indifferent to the hardships of study, so
much as the thought of the honour and advantage
that the labour may bring them. This Lorenzo di
Code Ghiberti, otherwise Di Bartoluccio, knew
well. He in his first years was put to the art of
the goldsmith, but delighting more in the arts of
sculpture and des...
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Sistine Ceiling Sistine Chapel
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The Italian Michelangelo Buonarotti, almost
certainly the most famous artist produced by
Western civilization and arguably the greatest, is
universally viewed as the supreme Renaissance
artist (see Renaissance art and architecture). He
created monumental works of painting, sculpture,
and architecture and left an additional legacy of
numerous letters and poems. Through this vast and
multifaceted body of artistic achievement,
Michelangelo made an indelible imprint on the
Western imagination. A mem...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Battle Of Anghiari
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Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most
ingenious men that history has produced. His
contributions in the areas of art, science, and
humanity are still among the most important that a
single man has put forth, definitely making his a
life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15,
1452, is credited with being a master painter,
sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and
scientist. He was born an illegitimate child to
Catherina, a peasant girl. His father was Ser
Piero da Vinci, a publ...
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Duke Of Milan Battle Of Anghiari
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Painter, sculptor, inventor. Born April 15, 1452
near the village of Vinci, Italy. He was the
illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a
prominent notary of Florence, who had no other
children until much later. Ser Piero raised his
son himself, a common practice at the time,
arranging for Leonardo's mother to marry a
villager. When Leonardo was 15, his father
apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio, the
leading artist of Florence and a characteristic
talent of the early Renaissance. A sculptor, ...
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Holy Roman Emperor Journey Through Hell
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Dantes poem relating his heavenly ordained journey
through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise enjoyed
immediate success: more than 600 surviving
manuscripts of the Divine Comedy produced during
the 14 th century attest to the works popularity.
Consequently, Dantes vernacular classic was among
the first books to be printed when the new
technology of moveable type was introduced into
Italy from Germany during the 1460 s and 1470 s.
Publishers and printers repeatedly turned to Dante
for his proven market...
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Ahead Of His Time Facial Expressions
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Donatello was quoted saying? I was the first
revolutionary. I was creating a new kind of
sculpture before the others were even born? (web).
Donatello was wise beyond his years. Little did he
know that he was so right. He had many of
breakthroughs in marble, bronze, and wood
sculpture, including the first male nude since the
Romans and the very first equestrian (horse and
rider) statue. Donatello can be considered a
genius. He rediscovered the classical past and at
the same time he took sculpting...
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United States Olympic United States Olympic Team Florence
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Florence D. Griffith nicknamed Dee Dee, Was born
on December 21 195. She grew up in a project in
Watts, a poor section in Los Angeles California.
Florence had 11 brothers and sisters. She would
often ask why there were so poor? Her mother would
tell her that they were rich as a family Florence
was stubborn as a child. Sometimes she would go
for days without speaking to anyone. She just read
her books. She loved poems. Florence always wanted
to stand out and be her own self. She had her own
ideas...
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Leonardo Da Vinci 16 Th Century
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World Civilization I The Renaissance/ Italy's
Decline Identification: The Renaissance /Italy's
Decline Definition: The period in European
civilization immediately following the Middle
Ages, conventionally held to have been
characterized by a surge of interest in classical
learning and values. Set in the city-states of
Italy in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, the constant uncertainty, both economic
and political, and extreme volatility of the
historical situation provided the m...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Rest Of Europe
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The Italian Renaissance was called the beginning
of the modern age. The word Renaissance itself is
derived from the Latin word rinascere, which means
to be reborn. Many dramatic changes occurred
during this time in the fields of philosophy, art,
politics, and literature. New emphasis was placed
on enjoying life and the world around you.
Talented individuals sought self-gratification
through art, literature, and architecture, and
their achievements would influence future
generations for centuries...
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Leonardo Da Vinci One Of The Great
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Italy (Italian Italia), republic in southern
Europe, bounded on the north by Switzerland and
Austria; on the east by Slovenia and the Adriatic
Sea; on the south by the Ionian Sea and the
Mediterranean Sea; on the west by the Tyrrhenian
Sea, the Ligurian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea;
and on the northwest by France. It comprises, in
addition to the Italian mainland, the
Mediterranean islands of Elba, Sardinia, and
Sicily and many lesser islands. Enclaves within
mainland Italy are the independent...
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Leonardo Da Vinci One Of The Greatest
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Leonardo da Vinci was born in April 15, 1452 in
Vinci, Italy. Leonardo's accomplishments have
earned him a place among the most prolific
geniuses of history. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of
the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance,
and the greatest experimental scientist of his
age. He displayed genius in almost all of the arts
and sciences. Leonardo was a painter, sculptor,
architect, musician, and art critic. He studied
sciences as an inventor, civil and military
engineer, botanist, an ast...
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Duke Of Milan Battle Of Anghiari
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Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the year 1452 in a
town called Vinci. His name -Da vinci- actually
means from the town of Vinci. At fifteen Leonardo
moved to Florence with his father. His father
recognized Leonardo's artistic talents, and showed
them to his good friend, Andrea del Verrocchio.
Verrocchio was a painter and a sculptor.
Verrocchio was so impressed when he saw Leonardo's
work that he took Leonardo to be his apprentice at
the young age of only about fifteen. In 1472
Leonardo was appoint...
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Leonardo Mona Lisa
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Geniuses come few and far between in history.
Hippocrates came in the late BC period. Einstein
came in the late 1800 s-early 1900 s. Leonardo
came in between the two of them, but is not
recognized as well as they are. He was a brilliant
human being. He was a master in the fields of
painting, designing, engineering, and science.
Most people know him merely as an artist, and some
know him as an inventor, but not too many people
know him for what he really was. This is because
his life and his acco...
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Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Political Genius by Niccolo
Machiavelli was not one, but three men: a
political theorist, a military theorist, and a
famous writer. Niccolo Machiavelli was born in
Florence in 1469. The Machiavelli family was one
of the most prominent politically in the city,
having 15 Gonfalonier e among his ancestors. 1
Niccolo? s father, Bernardo Machiavelli was a
legal consultant in the city, prominent
participant in humanist scholarship of the day,
and close associate of the city? s Fir...
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Lake Of Fire Harper And Row
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he Last Judgment is the altarpiece in the Sistine
Chapel commissioned by Pope Clement VII. The
painting proceeds from the viewers lower left in a
circular pattern, with the resurrected presenting
themselves before the Christ and the saintly
witnesses and then descending to damnation at the
lower right. The religious themes and influences
in the painting are only partly Christian and
include Biblical events synthesized with religious
concepts from Michelangelo's contemporaries. These
ideas includ...
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Teachings Of The Church Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Italian Renaissance was driven by a force of
great strides in humanity. This was a time for a
re-awakening of educated thinking, great artistic
endeavors, and an empowering factor of humanism to
use free will to govern ones future rather than
allowing the church to dictate the correct path in
life. The city of Florence became the center for
much of this activity, where artists and scholars
were sponsored royally by like-minded families of
great wealth and social power. More emphasis was
put ...
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Older Brother Medici Family
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Sandro Botticelli, (1445 - 1510) was a famous
Renaissance ari t. His real name was Alessandro di
Mariano Filippo; his nickname came from Botticelli
(little barrel), which was either the nickname of
his older brother or the name of the goldsmith who
first taught him. Botticelli was born in Florence
to the tanner Marianne di Van and his wife in a
small place called Smeralda which is now Borgo
Ognissanti No. 28 in Florence. He was one of eight
children born to his parents, Botticelli being the
youn...
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