Italian painters

Food is the utmost elements in the tourism sector that acts as a sense of place attraction among travelers (Bessiere, 1998; Cohen & Avieli, 2004; Ryu & Jang, 2006; Seo, Kim, Oh, & Yun, 2013) who seeks for unusual or extraordinary food experience and new culture which they could not acquire from their own place. A tourism destination could be popularized because of the specialty cuisines it serves the people. This is obviously being observed in European Country such as France and Italy, which are…

Elite theories have often been associated with fascism. In particular, elite theorists such as Pareto and Michels had undeniable ties with the Italian Fascist party and the latter even supported Mussolini. One of the strongest arguments for this association is that elite theories are usually deemed to be anti-socialist and anti-democratic. By rejecting both Marxism and the democratic system, elite theories seem to be advocating for new forms of power, which fascism can easily be seen as the…

Italian neorealism also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, is a national film movement that helped shaped the 1948 Vittorio De Sica’s film The Bicycle Thieves. Familiar to Italian neorealism, they story follows Antonio a character amongst the poor and the working class. Neorealism is a strong aspect to the film because of the use of being filmed on location and often using nonprofessional actors that are going through post World War II tough economic and moral conditions. The conditions…

Introduction The 19th century movement towards Italian unification which concluded in the establishment of The Kingdom of Italy on March 4th 1861 is called ‘’the Risorgimento’’. ‘’The Risorgimento was an ideological and literary movement that helped to arouse the national consciousness of the Italian people, and it led to a series of political events that freed the Italian states from foreign domination and united them politically.’’ (Risorgimento | Italian history | Britannica.com. 2015) The…

dysfunctional. Hitler rarely intervened in political events unless it pertained to his public image. Hitler was inspired by Mussolini’s Fascist government. Mussolini’s political ideas supported parliamentary manoeuvre and radical pressure because Italians were tired of riots and ready to submit to dictatorship. Mussolini, similarly to Hitler, attracted large crowds of people due to his impressive physique and effective way of speaking. In 1922, Mussolini had support of conservative and former…

in the first part of the 20th century. The chronology is as follows: fascism was introduced to the Italians by Benito Mussolini in the period between 1919 and 1945 while Nazism appeared in 1933 and faced a rapid decay with the end of the WW2 in 1945. Ideologically, Nazism and fascism diverged to a big extent and were promoted under different slogans. The founder of the fascist ideology—the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini—attempted at imposing an idea that only a state is a functional unit, not…

considered to be the undiscovered place according to Europeans before 1500s. It was actually the land where European called ‘New World’- it was until letter of Amerigo Vespucci has been published in Florence during 1505-1506. Vespucci himself as an Italian explorer, born in the city of Florence and is known to have been through number of voyages. Vespucci letter, was written to Pier Soderini; the Gonfalonier of Republic of Florence during the time; the letter consisted of mainly his experience,…

The renaissance was a time of over 300 years which changed European history forever. The renaissance started in Italy and worked its way all throughout Europe. It was a time where arts and literature blossomed, advances in technology were evolutionary, and intellectual excitement flourished. The word renaissance means precisely this, rebirth. Prior to the renaissance was the middle ages. The middle ages was a time where most people were not educated and the only book they would own was the…

words of Mussolini. Nationalistic slogans were used to gain political support for the Fascist party, but it was also used to elevate the idolization of Mussolini himself. The phrase “Viva il Duce”, meaning “Long live the Leader”, was used to so the Italians would learn to idolize Mussolini, who was self-titled “Il Duce”. One of the reasons that slogans as propaganda are psychologically effective is that they utilize the Primacy Effect. In relation to forming impressions, the Primacy Effect is…

and brighter colors to incorporate the italian feel into their paintings and portraits. Raphael was a very detail oriented man which lead to his paintings presenting many details. In his paintings, one can see the perfection of every single slight detail. Donatello on the other hand focused more on sculpting, rather than painting or drawing. He is most famous for sculpting David. David represents the title of two statues of the biblical hero by the Italian early…