Culture of Italy

Bruce Chao Comparison between Master of the Straus Madonna (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) of c. 1395–1400 and Virgin and Child with Donor ( the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) of c. 1480 by Antoniazzo Romano ARTH 1381 Mon/Wed/Fri 10-11AM I pledge that in the following paper, I have not represented as my own work the work of another without appropriately acknowledging the source. Bruce Chao The Pictorial style of Italian Art have continually changed throughout the late…

The Baptistery of Battistero di San Giovanni is situated before Firenze's (Florence's) Cathedral or Duomo, the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. The building has a Romanesque octagonal structure with three sets of double bronze doors. Pisano was awarded with the first set of doors in 1330 and they were finnished in 1336. Initially the Pisano doors were situated on the east side of the baptistery but in 1452, the doors were moved to their present area on the south side. In 1401 the cloth guild…

set sail, in October 1766, to Paris, where he attended many enlightened salons to discuss his ideas. Unfortunately, Beccaria did not posses the social skills to communicate in that kind of environment. After three weeks, he left Paris to go back to Italy. Like a chain reaction, Beccaria inspired many just like how the Verri Brothers inspired Beccaria. Many of Beccaria’s ideas are still mentioned today. America’s founding fathers were greatly influenced by Beccaria, because in the Constitution…

Famous paintings such as Paolo de Mattei’s Triumph of the Immaculate and Judith Beheading the Holofernes by Caravaggio are timeless masterpieces that have made their historical impact through the generations by portraying Biblical scenes in a detailed form to show Christianity's influence in the fine arts at the time. These two paintings captured my interest with the artists’ captivating symbolism and brilliant choice of colors. Of course there are countless works from this era with similar…

How the passion and vision of a man can transform the past in which was raised into transcendental architecture of historic reference. It is of great interest to understand how a person can comprehend different cultures with other visions and thoughts just by visualizing their work in different personal trips to different cities and countries. And furthermore, adapt them in order to create a new harmonious manner in which a singular, monumental, and functional design can exist. Is that way how…

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo da Vinci. This describes the change from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages people were more concerned with the afterlife than their current lives. Since most people were serfs they were waiting for an afterlife that would be better than their life on Earth. Eventually more people became employed, and with…

Question: How did the classical knowledge uncovered in the Renaissance influence it? Connection to Today: How does knowledge connect to today Audience: 4th grade What are we Going to Do: 2D Animation about the Renaissance. Follows the creation of the Florentine dome and how the Renaissance was influenced by the revival of classical knowledge of architecture Sources/Research: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/il-duomo/mueller-text “What we know for sure is that another…

styles of Medieval Europe. The Gothic style was most popular at this time; it was popular before the enlightenment in which people were turning away from dark Gothic structures and moving towards being able to have opinions, balance, and truth. Gothic culture promotes a sense of unbalance, it fully allows for fantasy to cloud reality. Ghosts, haunted houses, darkness, and fiction are inherently Gothic. Books such as The House Next Door, by Anne Siddons, play with Gothic ideals especially in its…

painting, discuss how the system was employed to create a desired illusion of depth, and what the artist wants to communicate through this. By: Bernice Seow The Renaissance was the period between the 14th to 17th century that originated in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe. Under its emphasis on humanism – a positive stance on human freedom and thought- the artistic technique of linear perspective was rediscovered by architect Filippo Brunelleschi and given a scientific shine by…

During the 17th century, in Europe even though the art was not formed until the mid-1800. (Beckett 1) In the art of culinary, cake decorating is often looked over. The beautiful decorations of the cakes are often seen by people, they do not recognize the history of the art. Cake Decorating has a colored and difficult history. Around this time, cake pans started making appearances in the homes in Northern Europe. This helped display the creativity of the elaborate dessert for banquets and feasts…