Italian neorealism

Best Breweries in Irvine 1. Backstreet Brewery Originating in Irvine, Backstreet Brewery is one of the first craft breweries in Orange County. Backstreet’s microbrew became so favored they recently branched into craft beer bottling. While four of their favorite beers are now available bottled, Backstreet Brewery is best experienced in its original location inside of Lamppost Pizza. Laidback and friendly with a pub style atmosphere, Backstreet Brewery is the place to linger with friends, enjoy…

My best friends invite me over for pizza and a friendly game of cards. As I am enjoying my evening eating pizza, socializing, and playing cards, certain parts of my brain are involved which allow me to perform properly. The limbic system comprises of the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, and the cingulate cortex. In general, the limbic system is involved in emotions, motivation, memory, and learning. However, as I eat pizza, socialize, and play cards, I am primarily using the…

Bini The Italian Lifestyle Portrayed In Film: Is It Really Ideal? Excitement. Passion. Laughter. Love. Carefree. Anyone who has ever lived or traveled to the seaside, boot-shaped country nestled in the heart of the Mediterranean is likely to describe Italy with these words. Italy can be a seductress, tempting, influencing, and perhaps even corrupting to those who step foot on her soil. Though filmed a decade apart and by directors of different nationalities, Il Sorpasso (Italian…

Themes of the doll’s house A Doll’s House is written by Henrik Ibsen in the year 1898 when he was traveling from Italy, Rome and Amalfi. Ibsen used A Doll’s House as one vehicle for questioning the importance—and the tyranny—of wealth. This play comes from Ibsen’s peak of radical ideasand when they were presented. Was written originally in Ibsen’s mother tongue Norwegian . The play was highly controversial when it was first published and since then it played am important role in Victorian…

The Renaissance was a period of "rebirth" that started in Europe following the Middle Ages. This time-period was characterized by an escalation in the interest of classical themes and the representation of human potential or humanism. The surge of classics can be seen in the art of the time, which often depicted both Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. The new artistic conventions were significantly distinct from those of the Middle Ages, which frequently depicted human figures as flat and…

Michelangelo and Raphael. The artists both read Vitruvius’s De Architectura libri decem and would use the methods and ideology to construct their own art and architecture. Raphael would even make a translation for Vitruvius’s De Architectura libri decem in Italian in 1520. This shows the praise that Raphael had for Vitruvius’s work and highlights the importance he found in his work. Michelangelo was inspired as well, for example, he used the methods that were described by Vitruvius to construct…

In the early 1500’s in Italy two styles of painting emerged to challenge one another stylistically and fundamentally. Two renowned painters for this period which exemplify the differences are, Raphaello Santi, referred to as Raphael, and Jacopo Carucci, known as Jacopo Da Pontormo or just Pontormo. Whereas, one subscribed to the Humanist point of view in painting, the other followed the Mannerism formula. The differences are precise and engaging. In the following sections I will discuss not…

as a masculine warrior Verrocchio and Donato de Niccolo Bardi symbolized their work by creating a feminist looking boy. The major thing all three pieces have in common however is that they both historically represent the beginning and end of the Italian Renaissance along with three completely different views on a man’s collaboration with the…

“Lemme eat it then.” I said, looking into the deliciousness of Italy-made pasta. Literally made by Italy. “It’s been a long time, anyway.” Romano smirks as he knew that I really like the pasta they make. To be honestly, going to Italy makes up like seventy percent of my trips. It’s all because of the pasta. Never defy the temptation for pasta. I really like pasta. It makes me happy. It makes me very happy. If pasta is ever banned or removed from the Philippines, I will SCREAM. As the hand me…

The tale of Italian immigration has never been a simple story, with each individual family having unique and diverse reasons for the decision: decades of internal strife, disease and abject poverty lead many Italian people to make the newly affordable transatlantic voyage to “L’America” 1. Opposed to the earlier arrivals which were “...artisans and shopkeepers seeking a new market in which to ply their trades. The vast majority [of this new generation of immigrants] were farmers and laborers…