beautiful works of art. However‚ there was at least one project that Leonardo never finished. In 1482‚ the Duke of Milan hired Leonardo to make a statue of a horse. The Duke wanted the horse to be 24 feet tall. Creating such a large statue would not be easy. It was to be the largest statue of a horse in the world. Leonardo spent years building a clay model of the statue. He showed the model in Milan‚ Italy‚ but it was not finished. He planned to use this model to create the final bronze statue. Unfortunately
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work‚ da Vinci moved from Florence‚ widely considered the cultural capital of Italy‚ to Milan‚ a much more political and militaristic city. There‚ da Vinci sold himself to Duke Ludovico Sforza (a successful military leader called "the dark one") as a military engineer. In the city that "lived and died by the sword"‚ da Vinci began developing many of his famous war inventions. Da Vinci spent 17 years in Milan working for the Duke‚ inventing‚ painting‚ sculpting‚ studying science and conceiving an
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raided as a duchy. He was born on October 10‚ 1813‚ in Roncole. Berdi first studied music in the town of Bussesto. In 1832 Verdi was rejected to study with the Milan Conservatory because of his age. He became the pupil of composer Vincenzo Lavigna. Then returned to Bussesto in 1833 as conductor. At the age of 25 Verdi again went to Milan. His first opera‚ Oberto‚ was produced at La Scala with some success in 1839. His next work‚ the comic opera Un giorno di regno (King for a Day)‚ it was a failure
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Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi was born on May 3‚1931 in Milan Italy. In 1949 he started studying architecture and in 1959 he graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan. In 1966 his book was published "l’Architettura Della Città" (The Architecture of the City)‚ which established him as the leading international theoretician. Starting in 1975‚ Aldo Rossi taught at the faculty of architecture in Venice and in the following years he also held lectures regularly at several major American universities
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metalwork as well as‚ drawings and paintings and he quickly mastered perspective‚ which was Verrocchio’s speciality. Soon‚ he became an independent experienced. Later‚ when he was about twenty years old he became very famous and created his own studio in Milan‚ Italy. After that‚ he was offered to
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If you were to ask a group of scholars of their choice of a prominent figure from the Enlightenment Era‚ some will say Voltaire or Adam Smith. However‚ a good majority will reply with Cesare Beccaria‚ an Italian man who contributed to the Enlightenment Era as a jurist‚ philosopher‚ economist‚ and criminologist. Thus‚ as every other prominent Enlightenment thinker‚ Beccaria would continue to baffle the minds of many with his extraordinary ideas till the day of his death. Although we may no longer
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You can see the influence of the traditional and Mediterranean culture on the inhabitants of central and southern Iraq. In southern Italy‚ most people are more brown and darker hair. In the north‚ however‚ they tend to be taller‚ blonder hair and lighter eyes. If from north to south‚ the Italians have one thing in common-a love of life-they are also sociable and have a passion for what they do. They talk a lot and pretty gesture. The Italians are not afraid of showing emotions‚ give hugs‚ kisses
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Prospera is the female version of Prospero‚ in the movie. The first difference I noticed was that in the movie‚ Prospero is played by a woman‚ whereas in the play‚ it is a man. Prospera is not the Duke of Milan‚ but however is it the wife of the duke of Milan. As stated in the book about Caliban‚ “Which was not honored a human shape‚” Act I scene 5(page: 31). Clearly‚ in the book Caliban was more of an animal type creature‚ with unnatural parts. In the modern movie‚ Caliban is shown as a half human-
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Florentine notary‚ Piero da Vinci‚ and a young woman named Caterina. Leonardo spent most of his life in Florence and Milan. In 1469 he was apprenticed to Andrea Verrocchio‚ a leading Renaissance master. Leonardo acquired a variety of skills while he remained at the workshop until 1476. He left Florence for Milan in about 1482 to work for Duke Lodovico Sforza. He stayed in Milan for nearly eighteen years. During his time there he applied his knowledge of mechanics to his obligations as a civil
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