Lorenzo Da Ponte

I am Florence Nightingale. I was born on May 12th, 1820 in Florence, Italy. My parents were inspired by the city to name me. My parents are William and Frances Nightingale. My father was a wealthy landowner and owned three estates. My mother was a British socialite known for her beauty. I am the youngest of the two daughters and also less important, according to my parents.1 My sister, Parthenope, and I were complete opposites.2 My sister and I were raised to be very social since our family was…

The Renaissance was a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, which was widely regarded as a cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern times. It started as a cultural movement in Italy, and though this cultural movement of extravagant arts and political ideals many Italian city states and merchant families began to internally compete with each other in a cyclical trend of showman ship. This showmanship was intended to project the ideas of cultural superiority upon…

Florence was one of the five major city states that rose as a result of the “Dark Age” and black plague. After this, the guild system was rarely used and wealthy, powerful families began to rule (which in Florence was the Medici family). Florence played a major role in the Renaissance because it encouraged and promoted art and culture; it became the center for literature and art and supported those writers and artists affluently. Patrons were the largest supporters for scholars, writers, and…

In a time when ideology and convictions were shaped by the church, a new ideology was on the horizon that would begin the revolutionary transformation of the western world into what we know as the renaissance period. This new way of thought was brought about due to certain doctrines of the Catholic church that was viewed as uncanonical and dogmatic. The idealistic movement of Renaissance humanism’s spread throughout first Florence and then western Europe was greatly due to men with common…

into the Florentine painter’s workshop, which he was shown the fresco technique. With just a year at the workshop a chance that most could only dream of was open to him, to move into the palace of Florentine. He moved to the palace under the ruler Lorenzo the Magnificent to learn about classical sculpture in which he was allowed to study corpses for an understanding into framework of the human body. These influences allowed Michelangelo to develop his own style known as a muscular precision and…

Sandro Botticelli was an artist in Florence, Italy. His life lasted from 1445 - May 17, 1510. Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi was Sandro Botticelli’s name at birth, but was later nicknamed Botticelli as he is known by. While he was young he was apprenticed by Fra Filippo Lippi, an artist. At the start of his career as an artist, he would paint frescoes for Florentine churches and cathedrals with another artist. He had a workshop of his own by 1470. After hiring Fra Filippo Lippi’s son, Filippino…

The most famous of the Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent besides being a patron of the arts, was a humanist. He was a member of the Platonic Academy of Philosophy and gathered around him a coterie of artists and gifted men. This coterie involved the leading humanists: Poliziano, Pico, Ficino…

It was written in Italian rather than the traditional written language for the time; Latin. The book itself explores for the first time modern philosophy and how to be a proper aristocrat (Cunningham). The book was written for, and dedicated to Lorenzo Medici, who at the time was the ruler of Florence. The book focuses on Politics, Warcraft, and how to maintain an image as a ruler. Many scholars have debated whether or not this book is either satire, with its deliberate feel to ridicule…

Alessandro Filipepi, more famously known as Sandro Botticelli, led the artistic movements in Florence’s Early Renaissance era with his works’ enigmatic nature. His placement as the court artist of Lorenzo de Medici, the man in charge of the Tuscan city-state from 1469-1492, allowed him to carry even more influence over his contemporaries than through his paintings alone. During his time under the Medici family’s patronage, he created some of the most cryptic and revolutionary works of art anyone…

The statue of David has inspired many renowned artists throughout art history maintaining the continuity of the story of David and Goliath. Four of such artists are Donatello, Verrocchio, and Michelangelo during the Renaissance period; and Bernini in the Baroque period. Each transformation of David is rendered in a distinctly different sculpture of the same subject reflecting each of the artist’s own style and time period in comparison. The inspiration of the subject matter is David; the…