Italian neorealism

Pizza is a dish that was thought to have been created by the Greeks in the B.C. era. Like the Greeks, many other groups at this time had early pizza-like flat breads such as the Paratha, which was created in India. In Napels, a city in Italy, the term pizza was created during the 1700s by street vendors. The pizza most similar to what we have today was created on June 11, 1889 (a day recounted by historians), and it was created in Italy. It was created by Raffaele Esposito. After this event,…

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…

Vinci or Caravaggio. For others good food and fine wines, pasta or pizza might spring to mind. Spaghetti Westerns are famous and it is common knowledge that some of them were filmed in parts of Italy like Abruzzo. Less well known are the authentic Italian cowboys known locally as the butteri (pronounced bootery) or buttero singular. These rugged herdsmen inhabited a vast and inaccessible land known as the Maremma, an area bordering the Tyrrhenian sea and stretching from north Lazio into south…

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)…

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…