Italian Renaissance

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 been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. (R.A. Guisepi) The High Renaissance…

even post-renaissance in the works of such famous artists as Vermeer; his painting, The Milkmaid, makes effective use of subtle one-point perspective to create believable space within the piece. Further on in time, the method continued to see effective use throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, such as in the works by Neoclassicist painter Jaques-Louis David, Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh, and Realist Edward Hopper. As can be seen, throughout the history since the renaissance,…

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)…

this period, rings were worn on both hands and in large numbers, both before and after the juncture. Although rings were worn in large numbers, the ones worn by women were much more delicate and small compared to the rings worn by men. Renaissance The Renaissance started in the 15th…

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…

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…

It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that scholarly interest in Muslim archeology began. This interest started in Europe with a collection of coins that dated from the eighth to eleventh century. After this, other branches of archeological interest in Muslim history spread, focusing on epigraphy and paleography. In 1761, Sir William Chambers designed a compilation of buildings and gardens that formed the Kew in Surrey. One of these buildings is the Alhambra, which was intended to be Moorish…

also known as the English Renaissance period, symbolizes the rebirth of classical learning, and the refocus of ancient Greek and Roman intelligence. The Renaissance movement initiated in Italy and found its way to England in the 1500’s and lasted until the 1700’s. It was a period where king’s had godly rights to rule, many scientific investigations were being held, and many scholars were pursing the understanding of ancient Greece and Rome. Literature of the Renaissance was greatly affected by…

between the years 1504 and 1508, but spans several years as Antonio and the Duchess establish their family, all while keeping it a secret from her brothers. The setting of the play also coincides with the beginning, or early middle, of the Italian renaissance. At this time, Italy was divided into independent city states ruled by kings and princes, and strongly influenced by “merchant princes” such as the Medici. The merchant class, as shown by the reach of the…

connection to the church to which the chapel is attached, the Basilica of the Holy Cross. The Pazzi Chapel’s Christian iconographic application of Roman design themes originally associated with pagan worship shows how Brunelleschi and later Italian Renaissance architects such as Bramante adopted the techniques and appeal of antiquity to serve the needs of Christian…