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Artistic Innovations Of Renaissance Florentine Painters
1,722 wordsArtistic 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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Jacopo Della Quercia Simone Da Colle Work
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Sistine Ceiling Sistine Chapel
1,841 wordsThe 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
2,317 wordsLeonardo 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
2,451 wordsPainter, 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
2,123 wordsDantes 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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United States Olympic United States Olympic Team Florence
515 wordsFlorence 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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2,013 wordsWorld 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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1,818 wordsThe 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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1,074 wordsLeonardo 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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2,365 wordsLeonardo 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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1,238 wordsGeniuses 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
1,273 wordsNiccolo 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
2,723 wordshe 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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Older Brother Medici Family
1,064 wordsSandro 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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