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Benozzo Gozzoli was an influential Italian painter in the Renaissance. He helped impact art as we know it today in many ways. Some of his most acclaimed pieces included Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, Adoration of the Magi, and Women at the Tomb. His style of artwork was fresco which is a painting done expeditiously on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling with watercolor. Gozzoli was born around the year 1421 in a village in Italy called Sant’llaria a Colombano. His birth name was Benozzo…

ABSTRACT Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement which started off in Italy from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century. After it started in Italy, spreads across European countries such as England and had an effect upon the literature of this period, so based on from here the purpose of this study was to search these effects in terms of poem’s theme, structure, aspects and some parts where poetry was influenced by renaissance in Elizabethan Age. The study analysed…

The Italian Renaissance garden incorporates the villa they are stationed near into its design. Many aspects of the garden reflect the ideals of the Renaissance flooding through society; this flooding led to overflow into homes and, subsequently, gardens. Such aspects include the revival of classical antiquity, evident in the typical appearance of statues portraying characters from classical Grecian or Roman mythology, and archways and columns, and in La Pietra’s case, even a mini temple and…

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, or better known as Donatello, was born in Florence, Italy around 1386 who studied with well-known sculptors who helped him to learn the Gothic Style. Even before he was 20, he became known for his work and went on as the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo and the most influential individual artist of the 15th century in Italy. Donatello used creative techniques combined with his amazing skills to create figures that incorporated not only a sense of…

Benito Mussolini was an Italian dictator who was born on April 28, 1945. He is most known as the creator of the Fascist party in Italy. He was also known for making himself a dictator and holding power in Italy. Mussolini played a big part during World War II. When he was young, he tried to follow his father's political footsteps. He was a socialist until he was kicked out of the party for supporting world war I. On March 1919, he formed the Fascist party. The party was done to show…

were, more often than not, highly skilled in many different fields (italian-renaissance-art). Leonardo da Vinci was a guru when it came to sciences and Michelangelo was an immaculately gifted poet, painter and sculptor. The third member of the trio who is considered to have a great contribution to the magnificent examples of High Renaissance art is none other than the talented artist Raphael, an architect and gifted painter (italian-renaissance-art). The painters of this new century reflected…

Rebecca Szabo Exam #1 Nazi Party Versus Fascism There are many similarities and differences between Italian fascism and German Nazism that has both positively and negatively affected history that Kershaw highlights in To Hell and Back as well as our class discussions. Beginning with some differences, one of the most profound and key differences between Nazism and fascism is their differing views on race, racism, and racial superiority. Kershaw focuses much of his book on the explosion of ethnic…

Renaissance Europe spanned between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries and spread out of Italy. Renaissance means the “rebirth”, so the “rebirth” of Europe. This time in Europe was a time of social and cultural change, and was singularized by innovation and creativity. Examples of this include art, literature and philosophy. The art was centralized around being more life-like and showing perspective. Artists like Michelangelo were able to show better human anatomy in paintings and statues…

The Renaissance is seen by many people as one of the greatest time periods for the human race. From 1350-1550, people believed that they were witnessing the rebirth of Greco-Roman civilization. It was a new age, and renaissance quite literally translates to “rebirth”. This was clearly in order after the Middle Ages (the time period after the Roman Empire fell), which was a “dark age” in many ways. The place associated most with the Renaissance is Italy. The 14th and 15th century in Italy are…

Italians and Their Untold Story of Migration Since the beginning of time and the early days of civilization for as long as we can go back into time there has always been higher powers that exert themselves with control over others. This supremacy over others constitutes to slavery and racism not only in our nation but the world as a whole from sea to sea throughout history. Slavery and racism has played a drastic part of our history as this practice preaches total control over…