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In his Doctrine of Fascism, Mussolini attempts to justify Fascism as the way to create a better Italian nation. However, this authoritarian democratic government interferes with the freedom of the citizen. For example, fascism describes the control of both material and spiritual aspects, of which is for the better of the nation. But a higher power that…

Raphael Raphael was a relevant and important artist who had many achievements and impacted the Renaissance. Raphael progressed and changed as an artist as he had more experiences and became more successful; this progression was important to his own success and the influence he had on art in the Renaissance. Raphael was born in Urbino, Italy and his father, Giovanni Santi, was an artist and taught him the basics of painting. He began working with Perugino in 1504, but when he later arrived in…

The Catholic Church has delineated various pious and sinful actions that humans are capable of; it would logically follow that in Hell, these sins would be punished in respectfully distinct manners. However, how would one qualify which sin is the most egregious, and how would one decide which punishment would fit the crime? In The Inferno, Dante seeks to answer these questions in a grand categorization of religious sins, beginning with those of lack of baptism and ending with those of…

Arnolfini was a prosperous Italian banker who had settled in Bruges,with his wife, Giovanna Cenami. The painting portrays Giovanni Arnolfini in the bridal chamber side-by-side with his wife, facing the viewer, holding her hand. Like Rembrandt's "Jewish Bride", this painting supposedly…

The artist that was once forgotten after his death for many years, Piero Della Francesca, is now considered one of the key Early Renaissance artists. Piero Della Francesca had a big impact on the development of the Italian Renaissance because of the use of a variety of techniques that enabled him to produce realistic looking paintings. In 1416, Piero Della Francesca was born in a small town, Sansepolcro in Italy. Piero was the son of Benedetto de' Franceschi and Romana di Perino da Monterchi.…

Jerome in his Study represents his Northern Renaissance interest gained in Naples and adherence to characteristic Italian Renaissance style – combining the detail, Gothic architecture, and oil paint of the North with the ornate pattern, mass, and light fascination of the South. As a whole, this painting was pioneering for its merging of styles, which Antonello uses to…

Renaissance. The Renaissance was a rebirth of many cultural aspects that were thought to have been lost to the ever changing world. The Renaissance originated in Europe during the 14th century in Italy. This new age brought about many great changes in Italian intellectual, artistic, and even cultural life. Even though the Renaissance began in the 14th century, it wasn’t given an official title until the 16th century. A man named Giorgio Vasari was the first to give the Renaissance its name.…

Michelangelo’s David is one of the most-recognizable work in art history. This work does not only represents the High Renaissance period, it’s also one of the best during that time. Why is Michelangelo’s David culturally significant? What does its subject matter, theme or style tell us about the High Renaissance culture that produced it? The term Renaissance, literally means "rebirth" and is the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have…

It is widely considered that Linear Perspective saw its first widely recognized application in the early 15th century by Filippo Brunelleschi, an architect and artist of Florence, Italy. Through an experiment involving the exact reproduction of the Florence Baptistry, Filippo was able to show the mathematical precision of his new-found method. A revolutionary technique, linear perspective employs aspects of mathematics to aid in producing convincing if not spot-on two-dimensional representations…

Honor means in the dictionary high respect; esteem. My definition of honor is a role model of some kind that you have high respect for. Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, was born in 1170 in Pisa which is a city of Italy. He was the son of Guilielmo and Alessandra. One of his accomplishments was the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of numbers where the last two numbers equal the next number. Like 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on. You can calculate it by this formula, F(n)…