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Michelangelo di Lodovico Bunonarroti Simoni was born March 6, 1475 and died February 18, 1564. He is considered to be one the most famous and successful artist from the Italian Renaissance. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect as well as a poet. Michelangelo’s Sculpture of David is a magnificent testimony of the art and where people were at, at this time in the early Renaissances. Michelangelo’s works were claimed to be better than anyone else’s and that no other artwork could…

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 Tuscany, of which the chief city was Florence, on 15 February 1564, within a day or two of the death of that great figure of the Cinquecento, Michelangelo, and died in 1642, the year of the birth of Isaac Newton, the master mind of modern science”.…

is one of the most famous and inspiring works of art in the fifteenth century. Before Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel he did other beautiful works of art. First Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Tuscany. His mother had died when he was six, and his father was serving for the Florentine government agent (Orleans). It must have been hard for a boy so young to lose his mother but that doesn’t stop him from becoming anything but incredibly…

The Renaissance was a coming into the light era for education and women especially finally being able to be educated like one of the men, was one of these bright spots. Architecture becoming a science, as well as creating beautiful buildings was becoming known as an art and of course the world renowned inventor, artist, visionary Leonardo Da Vinci and the many wonders he had to offer the Renaissance period that bled into our modern times. During the Renaissance period the women were usually…

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , or more commonly known as Donatello(born around 1386 and died in 1466 in Florence), is considered to be one of the Renaissance’s most distinguished Italian artists and sculptors, with his advancements holding a great impact on the Renaissance and the development of art. Donatello’s works were mostly considered as breakthroughs or new discoveries. He was a humanist and a realist, he used more of a realistic approach instead of the gothic style other artists were…

Benozzo Gozzoli was an influential Italian painter in the Renaissance. He helped impact art as we know it today in many ways. Some of his most acclaimed pieces included Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, Adoration of the Magi, and Women at the Tomb. His style of artwork was fresco which is a painting done expeditiously on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling with watercolor. Gozzoli was born around the year 1421 in a village in Italy called Sant’llaria a Colombano. His birth name was Benozzo…

The Italian Renaissance garden incorporates the villa they are stationed near into its design. Many aspects of the garden reflect the ideals of the Renaissance flooding through society; this flooding led to overflow into homes and, subsequently, gardens. Such aspects include the revival of classical antiquity, evident in the typical appearance of statues portraying characters from classical Grecian or Roman mythology, and archways and columns, and in La Pietra’s case, even a mini temple and…

If scholars were to attempt to pinpoint the exact moment when Dante’s stance on Italian politics shifted towards a more distressed and discouraged perspective, his exile from Florence would be that moment. In his own words through the mouth-piece of Dante the pilgrim to his former teacher Brunetto Latini in Canto XV, Dante laments: “In the bright life above…I came into a valley and lost my way, before my age had reached its ripening time. I turned my back on the place but yesterday…” Through…

Tyler Shapiro Research Paper Andrea Bini The Italian Lifestyle Portrayed In Film: Is It Really Ideal? Excitement. Passion. Laughter. Love. Carefree. Anyone who has ever lived or traveled to the seaside, boot-shaped country nestled in the heart of the Mediterranean is likely to describe Italy with these words. Italy can be a seductress, tempting, influencing, and perhaps even corrupting to those who step foot on her soil. Though filmed a decade apart and by directors of different…

Medici: Heroes or Villains? The Renaissance was a revolutionary cultural era of expansion and growth that spanned from the 13th to the 17th century. It was the result of growing wealth in Italy after the Middle Ages, and caused art, architecture and engineering, science, and mathematics to flourish. Many different events led to the cultural shift in Europe after the middle ages, one of them being the rise of wealth in Italy. The Italian banking family Medici is often considered one of the main…