Italian cuisine

Brooches In the beginning, brooches were used as a device to pin up robes, coats or cloaks. Due to their functional use, they usually came in simple shapes. However they soon started to be used as a body adornment on clothes. As a matter of fact, they stated to become more decorative by using gold and silver and in the following centuries brooches took several shapes, designs and inspirations from nature like birds, flowers, animals etc. Hat Brooches started to set it’s trend from the 15th…

Scorsese pulls inspiration for his movies from his own life experience, and as an Italian-American growing up in 1940s and 50s New York, he has a great source of characters and environments to pull from. This essay will examine Martin Scorsese’s life and show how he uses his life to create great movies. The unique environment Scorsese was raised in led him to pursue a career in film…

I chose Titan’s Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne because of the colorful aspect of it. Most of the art depicted in Gardner’s Art Through the Ages chapter on high renaissance is colorful and full of mannerism that it is hard to pick a favorite one. Titan’s bacchanalian scene however captured my attention with its vivid colors and rich details. There was a growth in the role and presentation of mythical imagery in Renaissance times. An understanding with Roman culture and the trappings of classical…

don’t have to focus on the idea of God from the Dark Ages. The main reason why Humanism spread from Italy to the rest of Europe is because the Italians traded with the Northern countries. Because of the trading, the idea of Humanism had traveled with the traders and was spread among them. The way that the Northern humanism was different from the Italian humanism is by the…

It is important to understand Renaissance means Rebirth or Revitalization. “Spanning roughly the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries no longer seems to be the abrupt onset of the modern era, suddenly shining forth in the fifteenth century to illuminated medieval darkness with the rekindled light of classical antiquity.” (Ott, 2012) During this period Italy was able to turn the “emphasis slowly away from the ideas and values of supernatural orientation and towards those concerned with…

The Renaissance saw a great shift back towards the scientific period that the Greek and Romans had explored, this re-birth heralded in a great era of discovery and looking at the world with a fresh perspective. Humanism and linear perspective were used to in art to create more realistic proportions and define spaces to achieve depth. Moreover, there was a new passion to make faces and bodies as realistic as possible with unprecedented details. Renaissance: Michelangelo was hailed as one of the…

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Mother Cabrini, was an Italian saint who was sent to America to help the immigrants. She took a stand for all the immigrants by helping and taking care of them when others didn’t, and because of that, she became the first American saint. Frances, or Francesca, was born on July 15, 1850 in S’ant Angelo Lodigiano. Her parents were Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). Her family was a very nice, but poor family.…

This source is an interview with Mrs M in 1999 by W. Ugolini. This source was part of a collection of interviews for ‘Memory, war and the Italians in Edinburgh: the role of communal myth.’ Mrs M, an Italian living in Edinburgh describes the anti-Italian sentiment and riots when Mussolini, dictator of Italy declared war on Britain and France on 10th of June 1940. This source was written 59 years after the events took place as a result the details could possibly be blurred with the passing of time…

Maybe this is an indication of its immense popularity both then and now. However, the Italian Renaissance can be divided into three distinct periods known as Early, High, and Late respectively.These stages were preceded by the Gothic art movement, which acted as a bridge between the middle Ages and the Renaissance, and was followed by Mannerism…

God was the commander of the crusade The medieval Christian tradition had a long path, and a complicated relationship with committing violence’s and warfare. The earlies writings concerning Christians and violence’s is from Augustus of Hippo from the fourth century C.E. that easys the notion of a just war on to humanity. I argue that the first crusade of Pope Urban II was not act out of character of Christianity and it was the currents events that are the cause for the first crusade, and the…