Filippo Argenti

The Renaissance was a period of advancement in various subjects. It was a time of great intellectual inquiry into all the branches of learning and fields of study. Philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, and artists began to examine the world around them with a stronger and deeper want and need for understanding the universe in which they lived. These students of the world around them also showed a greater interest in the role of humanity within this boundless universe. From this there is an…

find ourselves studying individuals such as Brunelleschi. Two important pieces of architecture that both show the changing idea of this time are the Dome of the Florence Cathedral and the Pazzi chapel. The dome of the Florence Cathedral, created by Filippo Brunelleschi, was created between the years of 1420 and 1436. Its shape is an octagon, with a herringbone that is 300 ft. high and spans 130 ft. Originally, this Cathedral did not have a dome because architectures of the previous times…

Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel at Santa Croce, begun in 1441 in Florence furthers the application of geometric ideals in a chapter house for clergymen. Although not exactly centrally planned due to the additional breadth from flanking barrel vaults, the ordered designs of the primary space and central dome demonstrate Brunelleschi’s ordered design. The chapel’s dome “rests above the center of a rectangular structure,” similar to Hagia Sophia. Its dome is unique from the Old Sacristy in its…

The significance of female characters in portraying the major themes and other social and political issues. The word Renaissance comes from the French and it means “to be born again’. It took place in Europe during the 14th to 16th century and was a period of innovation marked by a new era of growth. This era was used as a bridge of culture found in modern history as well as the middle ages. ( Etymonline 2009 ) . In The Lion and The Jewel we examine a theme of culture and conflict that arises,…

Florence Duomo Historical Background Information Around 1415, Filippo Brunelleschi competed for the chance to build the dome of the Florence Duomo. Florence was home to many talented artists, and all of them entered competitions to build or design various buildings around the city. Just a few years before, Brunelleschi had competed to design the bronze doors on the baptistery, but lost the competition to Lorenzo Ghiberti. Along with Ghiberti and Michelangelo, Brunelleschi built a model of what…

octagonal shape dictated by the walls.They decided to hold a contest to see who could come up with the best dome design. The prize was 200 gold florins (each florin was worth about 140usd so the prize would have been about 28000usd) Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi were the main competitors. They were both master goldsmiths.…

Italian Futurism and English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form,…

Constructivism, written by Russian artist and designer, Aleksei Gan, and The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909 written by Italian poet, Filippo Marinetti, both have written an extensive manifesto of their movements. Aleksei Gan believed that since most people are joined through labor, technologies’ of individual branches of production would form a united social technology, accurately and concretely. Constructivism took artists and architects, and turned them into Constructors. This caused…

towards Filippo Argenti, who was a Black Guelph and Alighieri’s political enemy, through Dante’s diction and reaction. Upon encountering Argenti while crossing the Styx, Dante asks who the sinner is, “But you, who are you, so fallen and so foul?’” (VIII, 35). Alighieri purposely chooses words with demoralizing connotations like fallen, which means degrading and immoral, and foul, which implies grossly offensive in a moral sense, to address his enemy, showing how much he looks down to Argenti.…

not change this sin that currently defines him. Through showing Dante’s weakness to pride, Alighieri tells the reader that everyone has their own weaknesses to sin, even Dante. In The Divine Comedy, Dante changes as a character after seeing Filippo Argenti in the fifth circle of Hell, realizing that everyone gets what they deserve, and after seeing the prideful being punished in Purgatory, knowing that this is his sin. The reader, after seeing Dante’s revelation about each person getting what…