To many, the solution to the concussion epidemic is to simply make a better helmet. However, as stated above, making a better helmet is not as easy as it seems. Since helmet use is required for all players in the NFL, there have been mixed reviews on which helmets are the best and provide the highest level of protection.…
July 18, 1610: Porto Ercole, Italy. The ports and city on the northeastern shore of the Tuscan city remained under Spanish jurisdiction. Two days prior, a man whom resembled a Spanish outlaw, was arrested and imprisoned upon arrival in the port. Authorities were unable to identify the man's true identity because his real identity was also that of a convicted outlaw, Michelangelo Merisi. Some time before he was released from the jail, Merisi contracted malaria and it would claim his life on this day. Merisi, known throughout Europe as simply "Caravaggio" (after the city he was from), was not just a murderer on the run; Caravaggio was a famous artist, made infamously popular by his paintings of graphic and sometimes violent biblical scenes.…
Micaelangelo-> (1475 – 1564) Renaissance sculptor, painter and architect. Michelangelo is often thought of as embodying the spirit of the renaissance. His greatest works include the statue of David and his painting of the Sistine Chapel.…
(Figure 22-36) His remarkable sense of color and his ability to convey light through color emerge in the altarpiece, Assumption of the Virgin. Who was this artist? How did Michelangelo's David become a political statement?…
Giacomo da Vignola & Giacomo della Porta were both Italian architects who helped create the II Gesù mother church. Giacomo da Vignola, also known as Giacomo Barozzi, was born on October 1,1507 in Vignola Italy. He became a major influencer to the Baroque architecture style. From 1541-1543 he worked at the court of Francis I at Fontainebleau in Paris, France. He returned to Italy and built the Palazzo Bocchi at Bologna. In 1551-1555 he built the Villa Giulia for Pope Julius III with Vasari and Ammannati; in 1555 he also did a great amount of work for the Farneses family. In 1572 he built the church of Sta. Anna dei Palafrenieri with an oval dome and ground plan. His development largely influenced 17th-century baroque architecture, in that it…
Alessandro di Mariano Vanni Filipepi Botticelli also known as Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy on March first (Lightbown). Sandro Botticelli was given his nickname from his elder brother, Antonio. Antonio started training his younger brother to be a goldsmith from a young age . This training came to an abrupt end as Botticelli was made the apprentice of Fra Fillippo Lippi (“Biography”). Fillippo Lippi was an artist from Florence who was known for his frescoes and paintings (Lightbown). Sandro Botticelli got most of his training from Fillippo Lippi, and most of Botticelli’s early works were attributed to Fillippo Lippi (“Biography”).…
1. Botticelli: One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance, developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus…
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. His father worked for the Florentine government, and shortly after he was born his family returned to Florence, the city Michelangelo would always call his true home. His mother past away when he was 6, and at first his father did not approve of his son’s interest in art as a career. At 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, mainly known for his murals. A year later, his talent drew the attention of Florence’s leading citizen and art patron, Lorenzo de’ Medici, who enjoyed the sensible encouragement of being surrounded by the city’s most literate, poetic and talented men. He long an invitation to Michelangelo…
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) “was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he is considered the first great representatives.” He was also one of the many artists that Rubens copied in his times of studying art. “The intense realism or naturalism, for which Caravaggio is now famous, is used in the majority of his paintings. He preferred to paint his subjects as the eye sees them, with all their natural flaws and defects instead of as idealized creations. This allowed a full display of Caravaggio's virtuosic…
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was born 28th September 1571 in Milan Italy. He was a dynamic painter whose vibrant artist techniques of tenebrism and dramatic realism caused uproar throughout his career. He is known today as one of the most innovative artists of his time.…
Around 96 percent of Italy’s population is italian. Other cultures live in this country: North African Arab, Italo- Albanian, Albanian, German, Austrian and other european groups. Italian is the official language of Italy which is spoken by 93 percent.…
During the dates 1475-1564 there were many famous painters working all around the world. One of which was Michelangelo. He painted and sculpted many famous items that are still talked about today. Michelangelo led a very busy life, as of which you will be reading about today. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in a small village of Caprese near Arezzo At the age of 13 Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti placed Michelangelo in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio through connections with the ruling Medici family. About two years later Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens. Shortly thereafter he was invited into the household of the magnificent, Lorenzo…
The Italian Renaissance artist, Titian, was arguably the best painter of the Venetian school. Titian was born in 1488 in Pieve de Cadore, Venice, Italy and died there on August 27, 1576. He mostly composed religious and mythological pictures, setting standards for physical beauty and lust (C.S. Forester, 695). For example, in Titian's work, "Venus and Adonis", he constructed an image of a nude woman viewed from the back reaching for a male in one of his mythological pieces (W.R. Rearick, 25). His reputation has never suffered a decline and was even declared by art theorist, Giovanni Lomazzo, "the sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world" (Marco Sampaolo, 696). Titian's two major cycles of paintings of mythological and religious subjects are considered as one of the most influential and crucial creations of the Italian Renaissance. Even today his paintings continue to cloud their image as portrayed by scholars (W.R. Rearick, 23).…
High Renaissance is known as period generally compasses of four decades from 1490 to 1527. The period from about the 1490s to the 1520s in painting, model, and structural engineering in Italy, when the Renaissance beliefs were considered to have been accomplished through the authority of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Artists that were key in High Renaissance in Rome included: Donato Bramante he was leading architect of High Renaissance, Michelangelo he was the best sculptor and fresco painter. Leonardo da Vinci expert of oil painting and sfumato, Raphael the finest painter of the high renaissance, Correggio the Parma painter, best known for his illusionistic frescoes and altarpiece board canvases. Commonplace painters included Luca Signorelli (1450-1523), whose Sistine Chapel wall paintings and Orvieto Cathedral frescoes are accepted to have been an essential impact on Michelangelo.…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of great fortune must be in want of even greater material objects, such as priceless art and literature. Such are those in the time period of the Italian and Northern Renaissance, which encompassed all detail of religious and political graces of and before its time. Where wealth and trade were among a large array, there lay many opportunities for Italian artist of that time in the 14th to 17th century AD to sell their art and skill. Unfortunately for the Northern Renaissance artists, the potential customer pool was a shallow one and it forced many to travel in search of potential buyers.…