ADX Florence

A 2012 article from the Business Insider was regarded as it listed offenders who were housed at ADX, the BOP’s supermax in Colorado. Immediately, Mears logic about the need to develop assessment tools seemed apparent in the randomness of offenders said to be located at ADX. Many of the inmates are considered to be the highest security prison in the United States does house some rather infamous inmates. Matthew Hale, a former member and founder of a neo-Nazi organization, is convicted of soliciting to commit murder, a former doctor who poisoned a woman and perhaps a few other to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and last but not least Terry Nichols for the Oklahoma City bombing. A clear disparity exists from attempted murder to a bombing. When considering safety and an offender’s ability to instigate others, there is no doubt that Terry Nichols may be able to influence others but based on face value a doctor who quietly killed…

The world around him was changing, and he was helping with it. One of the many things he did in order to help people, and himself, was the making of pedestrian streets in cities; he did this in order to cut down on the chaos of traveling. He also started the free rein in ruin architecture by bringing attention to Florence, after he transformed the spirit of it; it went from a spirit of adorations, to one of disturbing urgency. Before the Renaissance era, in the Middle Ages, only priest could…

Giotto di Bondone, of Florence, and Jan van Eyck, of Bruges were both revolutionary artist during the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance era (c. 1300-1500). However, each artist had incredibly different styles and utilized different mediums that they would later become known for. Giotto lived and worked in Florence during a period when religious subjects and styles had been laid down by centuries of tradition. As the first artist to depict human emotion, his influence put Western art on a path to…

Filippon Brunelleschi was commissioned by the Medici in 1418 to redesign this 11th-century Romanesque church and in the design Brunelleschi added Pietra Serena stone, domical vaults over side aisles and other architectural details. Brunelleschi’s design for San Lorenzo was not completed until after his death. Most of my focus will be on the contract between the Medici and Brunelleschi, since it was a deal just like the deals were done at the timee for other works of art. The Medici are know for…

ancient times. In modern times, art history has become a discipline dedicated to teaching people how to assess and explain the basis of the works of art on their own perspective. Through a series of understanding, you can recognize the evolution of culture and art in different times, different times of artistic style has its own unique charm. CHAPTER ONE Renaissance Renaissance was born in Florence, Italy, 14th Century. When the 14th century, along with factory and handicraft industry…

The Renaissance is desribed to be the "rebirth" of literature, philosophy, and ideology from ancient times like the Roman society. Although the rebirth of literature, philosophy, and ideology sounds favorable to our society, the Renaissance was not superlative. The Renaissance is proven to be about fabrication of perfection and misinterpretation of love and greatness. This is proven true in two works written in the Renaissance time named The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and the Shakespearean…

The Renaissance affected the flowering of culture in Europe socially with the revival of Greek and Roman arts as well as humanistic beliefs, politically with the flowering of arts affecting the leaders of cities and with the growth of the church, and economically in a lack of emphasis placed on wealth and an influx of improved inventions. Ancient Greek and Roman aspects, such as art and humanism, resurfaced during the Renaissance and affected Western Europe socially. An Italian scholar,…

Isabella D’Este: The Lady of the Italian Renaissance The regional courts in Italy during the Renaissance period of the mid-fourteenth to sixteenth centuries played a significant role in the nurturing, spreading and development of Renaissance ideas. “[T]he court [is] defined [as] the space inhabited by the prince, his consort, household, courtiers and officials;” The complex of court buildings usually encompassed a palace or castle where the ruler resided, surrounded by chapels,…

What makes a book stand the test of time, and also remain as a notable perspective within politics; having been written over five-hundred years ago? As for Machiavelli’s The Prince, scholars and politicians continue to find themselves drawing back to many of his perspectives on politics, and the qualities a good ruler. His insights on political leadership has sparked much debate over time, which is exactly why many continue to pursuit an understanding on his viewpoints, and their applications to…

money started to run out Berenson still desired to stay in Europe, so he became active in the art market. In 1890 England, Berenson met his future wife, Mary Smith, and with her collaboration, began writing books on Italian art. His most popular writings being, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (1903), The Study and Criticism of Italian Art (1901), and Three Essays in Method (1927). After a rise to fame from a review on Venetian paintings exposing 33 fakes attributed to Titian, art dealer…