Florence Cathedral

This essay will be answering “To what extent has Nelson Mandela followed Machiavellian Political philosophies?” and the word extent means here being two sided. Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman, secretary of the Florentine republic, who is well known for his legendary work The Prince which made him known as a disbeliever and a dishonest cynic. Nelson Mandela who was a non-white nationalist and was the first black president of South Africa, in the 1990’s…

dei Machiavelli or Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy 3rd May 1469 during Renaissance. He was known as Italian or Florentine historian, politician, diplomat, and philosopher. In 1494, there’s one well-known political family in Italy called Medici family—already ruled Florence for 40 years, which removed temporarily from power. Thus, Florence was under control by Girolamo Savonarola a Dominican monk who obsessed to transform Florence into a “Christian City” as he named the city “New…

Describe Machiavelli’s life and the political climate in Italy while this book was being written. Machiavelli was a bureaucrat under the Republican government before he lost his job to the supporters of Medici during 1512. At the end of 1513 or even the early 1514, the time period when Nicolo Machiavelli, wrote The Prince. During that time period, Machiavelli was seeking to regain his status in the Florentine government. Meanwhile, the Medici family had been driven from power in Florentine.…

Jasmine Shrestha World Civilization Parag Jyoti Saikia 13th March 2018 Christopher Columbus: A Hero or a Villain? Christopher Columbus, a great Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer of all time was born in 31st October 1451 in Genoa, Italy. Columbus discovered America for the first time in 15th century, which had excelled the importance of all the other events that had ever occurred. He started navigation at the age of fourteen and he had made four voyages to America through the Atlantic.…

The Renaissance was a time of rebirth in which the principles of classical antiquity experienced revival and discoveries bloomed across Europe. Florence, Italy was the epicenter of Renaissance thought and the home to famous Renaissance men from Michelangelo to Da Vinci. While Renaissance men are at the forefront of history little was known about the lives of Renaissance women until recent decades where it has been revealed that women did not truly experience a Renaissance. This essay will…

thought(Fieser). Francesco Petrarc, an important humanist writer, was credited for being the founder of humanism(Fieser). There was a transition from medieval life governed by the Church towards philosophical theories of humanism(Fieser). During the 1300’s in Florence Italy, people’s mentality shifted because they started enjoying Italy more and concentrated less on social issues(Kehoe, Damerow, and Duvall). After the war, Italians realized that they should be knowledgeable on the world related…

Venus de Milo is easily one of the worlds most famous works of art from the ancient world, damaged and full of history Venus de Milo is a wondrous mystery. it was rediscovered on the 8th of April in 1820 by a peasant on the Greek island of Melos while he was digging up rubble for his farm. The statue Venus de Milo was mutilated, in two main pieces; the peasant who found Venus de milo knew that he had uncovered a masterpiece and quickly sought out officials to aid in safely retrieving the statue.…

Art from the Renaissance is most realistic compared to any other art. During my trip to the St. Louis Art Museum I look through hundreds of paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque period. My favorite painting I looked at from this period at the museum was Peasants Dancing in a Tavern by Adriacn van Ostade. The Renaissance and Baroque art section stood out the most to me at the museum. When I first arrived to the St. Louis Art Museum I went down to the first level where most of the art was…

around the years 1425 to 1428, depicting the image of Adam and Eve being exiled from the Garden of Eden (Nichols 69). This painting was part of Masaccio's collection of paintings in the Brancacci Chapel in the church Santa Maria del Carmine located in Florence, Italy that he was commissioned to do around the years 1425 to 1428 (Nichols 66). The Brancacci family were Florentine merchants allowing the family to earn enough money to build the Brancacci Chapel as part of Pietro Brancacci's final…

Although Giotto’s and Cimabue's ‘Virgin and Child Enthroned” share the same biblical subject of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child, they differ in a number of significant ways that reflect their respective embodiments of the Byzantine style in the early 13th century. Upon first glance the paintings are strikingly alike. They share a long pentagon general shape, position of the baby Christ upon the lap of the Virgin Mary and the Virgin Mary upon her throne, and a gold background that make…