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Was the Time Period Between 400 and 1400 AD a “Dark Age” for Europe? Overall Claim: The Middle Ages not a Dark Age in Europe. The first reason the Middle Ages period was not a Dark Age was because the educational system improved. Richer the monk stated in his article “Journey to Chartres” (Document E) about how he was going to study with a great scholar named “Heribrand, a highly cultured and scholarly man.” Richer stated that he had learned “symptoms of diseases and picked up a surface…

Painting is represented by two artistic schools: Florence and Siena. Giotto became the central figure of painting. Artists of the Renaissance considered him as the reformer of painting. Giotto outlined the way, along which went its development: the filling of religious forms with the secular content, gradual passage…

Artist Chosen/About Him The artist I chose to research is Raphael Sanzio. He was born on March 28, 1483. In his early life his mother Màgia died (in 1491) and his father died in 1494. Orphaned at the age of 11 he went to live with his Uncle Bartolomeo who was a priest and he engaged quite often in litigation with the boy’s stepmother. Raphael stayed with his stepmother rather than continuing to live with his uncle. From a young age he had shown great skill working with his father before his…

October 2nd I attended a Stage III production of The God of Carnage at the Beaudoin Theater in Siena Campus’ Foy Hall. Stage III productions vary each year, so plays performed over the years are not repetitive. In other words, Stage III could present any genre of play. Specific to the contemporary play presented by Stage III, God of Carnage was directed by Shayne David, a Creative Arts major at Siena College. The individual who wrote the God of Carnage is Yasmina Reza. Yasmina Reza was born on…

The buildings of the Italian Cisternians consisted of a central hall for the crowds to gather, side aisles, and apse. With rectilinear forms challenge the French architecture, also with small windows, one example is the magnificent, Basilica of San Francisco, located in Assisi. The fresco painting on the walls was also an important characteristic of this period. Also, its desire to evoke the Franciscan connection with poverty influenced the architecture. Simply but magnificent is the definition…

Same-Sex Marriage in New York "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law" ("Boethius"), a quote stated by a Roman philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius in 524 (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius - Biography). Obviously, laws have nothing to do to interfere the love in theory; however, as the discrimination that homosexual people receive for a long period, people in New York has to fight for their equal right to have the law and live under the…

While both appear to be influenced by the classical roman style, the use of tracery in Straus Madonna’s frame is appealing to the eye. If we compere Simone Martini’s Annunciation (Siena Cathedral, Siena) of c. 1333 to Straus Madonna’s frame it appears as if the Master wanted to reconstruct and revive the antiquity of such. While Martini’s frame is far more sophisticated than that of the Master they visually appear similar. Antoniazzo Romano’s…

issues and pancreatic cancer. His birth mother and her mom had the same name (first and last). His birth dad and his birth moms dad had the same name (first and last).He was a good husband and a father of four children (Reed Jobs, Eve Jobs, Erin Siena Jobs, and Lisa…

Donatello Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi or Donatello was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence, Italy. He is known for his statues of religious figures. Early Life Donatello was born in Florence, Italy in 1386. He was educated in the house of the Martelli Family for most of his early life. He started artistic training in an goldsmith’s workshop, then worked briefly with Lorenzo Ghiberti, a early Renaissance artist. Donatello then studied and worked with Filippo Brunelleschi in Rome…

civil war, abolished slavery, and kept the union together. Lincoln was also an accomplished speaker, a great politician, and also a strong military leader and activist. According to 18 different surveys conducted by Schlesinger, M-B, Chicago Tribune, Siena, R-McI, C-SPAN, WSJ, Times, and USPC, Lincoln was voted best president by far, with Roosevelt and Washington trailing behind. Lincoln was the President who led the country through the civil war, which was "the bloodiest war in American…