Republic of Florence

his father’s objections and went to apprentice Domenico for three years. Only one year later though, Michelangelo left. Instead of apprenticing Domenico Ghirlandaio, he went to Lorenzo de’ Medici, an Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine Republic, to apprentice him and that is where Michelangelo’s gifted and talented career of painting and sculpting…

sometimes referred to as “the first realist in politics,” wrote The Prince (1513) in an attempt to ingratiate himself to the ruling Medici family. The Medici family had dismissed him, suspected him of conspiracy, and banished him from the city of Florence only the year prior (1512). It is my contention that although, Machiavelli’s ideas do seem to be thrown – as accusations – in the politics of modernity, the charges are over-exaggerated. Further, most of the claims of Machiavellianism, when…

Queen's house, designed by architect Inigo Jones was the first pure classical building in Britain and brought a revolution into the architectural scene. Inigo Jones was inspired by his travels in Italy and especially his second visit in 1613 where he visited major cities and buildings and compared theory with practice, from then on his style of architecture took a new form. I want to explore the originality of Queen's house, how much of the design came from Inigo Jones the architect and how much…

the people who analyzed this question was Niccolo Machiavelli – one of the most famous Italian thinkers and political leaders of the Renaissance period. When the Medici family gained power in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli, who was back then a civil servant in the Florentine Republic - was accused of conspiracy and imprisoned. To win favor with Lorenzo de Medici, he wrote a book called The Prince, which contained a list of advices about how to create and hold onto a…

Comparison of Machiavelli’s behavior of known Politicians According to Niccolo Machiaville, he himself felt he was the most widely-read of the Renaissance thinkers. He retired from public service in order to become a writer and felt he was a Florentine politician. Shortly after his early retirement he was able to accomplish his dream and in 1513 he wrote his best known work, entitled The Prince, Principle II. In his book his main focus was on the way a good ruler or prince should perform. He…

insurance, and bookkeeping, helped the development of this urbanized merchant class. Among this class the use of writing was important and necessary and we thus see how economy influenced the rise of vernaculars and thus the rise of Tuscan Florentine. Florence emerged as a leading city in Tuscany during this period. With the replacement of feudalism with capitalism Tuscany became the middleman of trade between the East and West. Within this emerging dominant force, experts were sought after who…

There are many forms of government practiced in Renaissance Italy. With this in mind, the main functions of the government were to create and enforce laws and institutions (republics); as well as make laws by decree (signori). (Najemy, pg 195) Also, the government’s were responsible for public order, control of violence, justice, military/war, tax/finance, and diplomacy. (Najemy, pg 195) Thinking about this, enforcing laws and institutions, as well as making laws by decree are both very…

of the many things he did in order to help people, and himself, was the making of pedestrian streets in cities; he did this in order to cut down on the chaos of traveling. He also started the free rein in ruin architecture by bringing attention to Florence, after he transformed the spirit of it; it went from a spirit of adorations, to one of disturbing urgency. Before the Renaissance era, in the Middle Ages, only priest could read, and books were rare treasures. The Renaissance helped spread…

Giotto di Bondone, of Florence, and Jan van Eyck, of Bruges were both revolutionary artist during the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance era (c. 1300-1500). However, each artist had incredibly different styles and utilized different mediums that they would later become known for. Giotto lived and worked in Florence during a period when religious subjects and styles had been laid down by centuries of tradition. As the first artist to depict human emotion, his influence put Western art on a path to…

other works of art. The Medici are know for their dealing within the art world of the Renssiance, from their commissions and their own privte collcetion. They were diffently known as patron of the arts and for archtericure. Many chruches bulit in Florence, Iltay were somehow are assapoited with the Medici…