Italian Renaissance

in twelfth-century Italy called the “urban nobility.” How and why did this social class come into being and how did it affect the movement toward republican government. The urban nobility is a new social class formed by the merger of the Northern Italian feudal nobility and commercial aristocracy. The people in this class were nobles attracted by opportunities of long-distance and maritime trade, rising value of urban real estate, expanding communes etc. who settled in cities. The people within…

Ballet is the one of the most traditional form of dance. There is a lot about ballet that people don’t know, such as the history. Do you know what it took to get the art form to what it is today. Then again, maybe you didn’t know that the pointe shoe didn’t always look like what it is now. Did you know that for almost every ballet company you have to meet certain bodily attributes in order to be a part of the company? Ballet and just dance in general is the way that humans first shared our…

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was a famous sculptor, painter and architect whose work in the Sistine Chapel is widely known to be one of the greatest pieces of fresco work in the Italian Renaissance. Every year millions of people travel to Vatican City to see his impressive artwork. Not only is the Sistine Chapel an attraction for art lovers, but for Christians the Sistine Chapel is considered to be one of the holiest chapels. The Sistine Chapel was built between 1475 and 1483 and named…

Background Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli or Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy 3rd May 1469 during Renaissance. He was known as Italian or Florentine historian, politician, diplomat, and philosopher. In 1494, there’s one well-known political family in Italy called Medici family—already ruled Florence for 40 years, which removed temporarily from power. Thus, Florence was under control by Girolamo Savonarola a Dominican monk who obsessed to transform Florence into a “Christian…

styles differ. The people of ancient Rome built enormous structures such as the Colosseum. Other buildings in Italy come from the Renaissance age, such as the leaning tower of Pisa. Besides the different styles in buildings, I have heard that the food in Italy is quite different compared to the food America offers. For instance, from what I can imagine, the Italian food seems to be fresher, whether it’s served at a restaurant or bought at a market. In spite of these differences between the U.S.…

When Renaissance - the great cultural movement started in Italy - swept through Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age, science experienced a rapid progress, just as fast as the development in art, philosophy and literature. During this accelerated period of scientific advancement, or the scientific revolution, an Italian scientist, mathematician and philosopher named Galileo Galilei is considered one of the first to pave the way towards the ‘revolution’. He was “born at Pisa in…

Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince are two extremely distinctive and contrasting products created during the Renaissance. Both the works produced by More and Machiavelli concern themselves with the fundamental issues of how society maintains itself and continues to work regardless of what occurs. The two contrasting scholars may both focus on society but yet both authors created works with exceedingly distinctive purposes behind the products. More's Utopia can be seen as a…

connections going through time and each connection has a similarity and cause and effect. Through the threads of history there are many concepts and ideas. All the way from the Pre- 1400- 1648 Which is Mainly Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, Byzantium, Renaissance, Reformation and others to 1648-115 When the Age of Revolutions occurred. Then there’s 1815-1914 When the Industrial Revolution was occurring to 1914 to present where Cold war, World War I and II occurred. Through all these different times…

Values: The Role of Patronage in Renaissance Art Patronage, generally speaking is the money and support provided to an organization, business, and so on. When referring to the impact of patronage on art during the Renaissance, we typically refer to this as the support provided by surrounding popes, kings, and the wealthy which would overall be provided to artist such as musicians, painters, and sculptors. Basically speaking, patrons operated as sponsors in order to endorse their political…

the grandeur of ancient Rome, the Colosseum or the Pantheon while art lovers might be reminded of the Renaissance, Michelangelo, Leonardo da 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…