Florence Kelley

The Dark Ages was a time where Europeans couldn’t trade. They were cut off from the Silk Roads, and the Ottomans controlled a lot of the sea trade. This made Europeans want to find new trade routes. This desire led to Europe’s Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration accomplished many things for the Europeans. First of, they got their new trade routes, which allowed them to have commerce. They grew wealth this way. They also got new territories from when explorers would travel. Also, they…

Il Duomo, or better known as Brunelleschi’s Dome is one of the masterpieces in architectural design. In 1418 the fathers of Florence had an enormous problem with their cathedral. It had a huge hole in the roof. This cathedral was to be showcased as having the largest dome or cupola ever built and to be crowned as the “most useful and beautiful” and “more powerful and honorable” than any other ever built. For decades the architects of the day worked tirelessly to find a solution for such a large…

Botticelli became less popular after he came under the influence of a Florentine monk who believed in distroying all books and art works that were not painted for God. At first, this seemed like the downfall of Botticelli, but he decided to remain in Florence and continue his legacy of being one of the greatest painters; however,he changed his subject matter so that his works had a more religious tone. He began painting altarpieces to please the monk, Savonarola. Boticelli even burned some of…

The Italian Renaissance was a time of great cultural changes in the art around the world. You can notice these changes throughout the art and the architectural structures developed during that time. In my writing assignment, I will not only go into detail but also analyze three vivid paintings all done by Lorenzo Lotto. The three painting I have chosen are “The Stoning of Saint Stephen”, “The Entombment”, and “Saint Dominic Reviving Napoleone Orsini”. I choose these paintings from the art…

The Renaissance brought out the inspiration for the humanist scholars to pursue new ideals of thinking through their time in the arts, philosophy of the human nature, and expansion of education throughout the cities. Pursuers of greater knowledge sought to establish an identity amongst the people of their, hopefully, securing them in the roots of history books and translations worldwide. Painters of the Renaissance like Leonardo Da Vinci, developed a visual aid on the outlook of human…

Giambattista Bodoni (b. 1740-1813, Saluzzo Piedmont, Italy) was an Italian printer and a designer of typefaces still used today. He was a third generation printmaker who modeled his type designs after Pierre Simon Fournier, "...but later felt inspired by the typography of John Baskerville" (Famous Graphic Designers). He was at the front of industrialized print making. The Bodoni typeface, according to Bodoni: The History of Being Awesome, is, "...an easily recognizable Romantic typeface with a…

The Middle Ages had been a time period following the fall of the Roman Empire, and a dark and “barbarous” age according to many humanists in the Renaissance Era. The Middle Age began without any idea of the education, politics, and intellectual of the Greeks and Romans. Some people in the Renaissance Era believed this era to be a “awakening” from the Middle Ages, and a complete revival of the Greek and Roman lifestyle. Politically, humanists replaced religion from politics, and justified their…

In the film Wag the Dog, we are presented with a peculiar and humorous story surrounding government issues. The plot encircles leaked personal information of the president’s intimate life. Because the events took place during the president’s reelection campaign, his team was forced to fabricate a fake war between the United States and Albany in order to distract the public from the president’s scandal. After facing a few difficulties, the team was driven towards creating a second and third lie…

give it many shapes and different sizes, the way he added detail to every aspect of the sculpture’s faces and body parts still amazes and inspires many people on today’s society including me. Many of these works are still around in the world like Florence, Italy, Rome where people can see for themselves the true pieces of…

Artists of the Renaissance era were revered for their sacred mastery of art, which caused them to be as equally high in the social structure as those of royalty. The general public of the time viewed artists as nothing short of gifted geniuses in their respective craft. The masterminds of the period, lasting roughly from 14th - 16th century AD, climbed the social ladder through their recreation of Latin Literature and of the figurative arts.¹ Each initially had no reputation or fame to any…