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Italians are recorded as coming into the port of Philadelphia. In the 1830s Joseph Bonaparte sought political asylum in Philadelphia and lived off 9th & Spruce. By 1853 there were enough Italians to form the First Italian Catholic Church, Mary Magdelan de Pazzi. During this period many well to do Italians left Italy for political reasons and came to Philadelphia as artisans, bankers, merchants and musicians. They organized the first society, "L'unione di fratellanza" 2 years after the Civil…

According to The Humanistic Tradition Vol. 2, “Baroque is associated with such features as ornaments, spatial grandeur, and theatrical flamboyance” (p. 47). However, the manner that I would define Baroque would be that Baroque involves dark lifelike paintings; scrupulous and carefully crafted sculptures; meticulous, spatial, and secular architecture; attentive and diligent performances. The manner that the Baroque movement reflected on social realities involved delivering a new perspective on…

For my self-assessment project over the book “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr, I have created a newspaper titled “The Saint-Malo Monthly”. This title incorporates Saint-Malo, the setting of most of the book. This newspaper is set in August of 1944, which is when the war was at its climax and the major events of the story took place. My first news article is titled “The Mystery of the Sea of Flames”. It is about the legend, looks, and location of the Sea of Flames, a diamond…

There was no possible way that the Emperor could have known that an Italian anarchist was waiting with three bombs—bombs intended to take his life. Luckily, Emperor Napoleon III survived the deadly encounter, and the incident became another reason to have a more secure opera house built. On the other hand, there is the Parthenon. Persians had destroyed and wreaked havoc to their previous temples, which caused the construction of a building that remained relatively intact for 2000 years to come…

The Baroque period is known for some of the greatest advances in the use of tenebrism, painterly techniques, and dynamic expressionism. For this historical study, the main category that will be focused on will be the Italian Baroque, more specifically the work of the artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The Italian Baroque Period lasted from the late 16th century to the early 18th century. Gentileschi was a female artist who worked around the period of 1593 to ca. 1652. In order to narrow down the…

Baroque is originated from the French, meaning, “irregularly shaped pearl.” Which may have mostly been used to describe gems and pearls, but later on began to describe an extravagant style of art. We moved on from mannerism which consisted of classical art, to baroque which consists of dramatic approach to art, with colors and contrasts. Realism in paintings and sculptures was an integral aspect of baroque art. Artemisia Gentileschi’s, Judith Slaying Holoferne, is a great example of baroque…

Maison Carrée in Nimes was built in around 20 or 19 BCE, during the Roman urbanization of the Celtic’s land in southern France (Gaul). Maison Carrée was one of several temples built under the rule of Augustus Caesar. It is 82 feet long and 40 feet wide and 40 feet tall. The name Maison Carrée is derived from archaic French carré long, meaning ‘long square’ for the obvious reason that it is rectangular in shape. It was originally commissioned by Augustus Caesar’s son-in-law Marcus Agrippa, but…

mathematics to follow in his father's footsteps, but later decided to join the Arte della Seta, which included training for metalworkers. There was no information on his wife or kids if he had any. From 1402-1404 Brunelleschi traveled to the ruins of Rome with Donatello in order to study the ruined architecture, this is where Brunelleschi gained his inspiration for sculpting and…

The Lasting Influence of Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an 18th century printmaker and architect with a fascination for ancient Roman architecture, but to future generations of artists, he was a visionary who the rebuilt the ruins of classical Roman architecture into macabre and overwhelming structures of fantasy. Piranesi’s Le Carceri infuses his own imagination into each of the 16 plates in this series, manipulating space, light and perspective to create a…

Baroque music used highly ornamented lines, much like gothic buildings. Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images The Baroque period was a time in which changes were being made to music, and the sophistication of composers was growing. Rather than writing for undefined instruments, composers began to think about how the timbre of the instruments affected the overall sound. New types of ensembles and pieces started to form in the Baroque period while others were developed based on past forms.…