The works of Sandro Botticelli are among the most revered of renaissance painting. The sweeping curves of his women and the ethereal beauty of their gazes are recognized instantaneously: from a grandmother in a small town to the cognoscenti of New York or Paris‚ few can claim to be unmoved by his work. Patronized by the Vatican as well as one of the most rich and powerful Florentines of his time‚ Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici‚ Botticelli was hugely popular in his own day. His most magnificent
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Historians call the period we live in Modern Times. Modern Times began with the Renaissance‚ one of the rare periods of genius in the world’s history. Beginning in the 14th century and reaching its height in the 15th‚ the Renaissance was a new age filled with remarkable accomplishments meaning “rebirth”. The Renaissance refers to the rediscovery by humanists of the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The individualization of man began in this era‚ and it was during this period that man began
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III. Rondo. In the following essay I will be looking at the first movement‚ which is written in Sonata-Allegro form. The well known opening theme is accompanied by anAlberti bass‚ played with the left hand (Froment‚ 2010). “The Alberti bass is named after Domenico Alberti and it’s the bass part in keyboard music that consists of broken chords in close position (Merriam-Webster‚ 2014).” The exposition stretches from bar 1-28. Overall two themes are present in the exposition. The first theme starts
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Vitruvius to the present New York: George Braziller‚ Inc.‚ 2007 Vitruvius Pollio‚ Marcos. Vitruvius: The ten books on architecture. Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. New York: Dover Publications‚ 1960 Cicero’s De officiis‚ I‚ 39 quoted in John Onians‚ “ Alberti and Filarete: A Study of Their Sources”‚ Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes: 34 (1971)‚
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Was the Renaissance Reality or Myth? Renaissance is the period in history defined with the sudden change of history from medieval time to modernity. The renaissance is estimated to have occurred between 14th and 17th century. This time in history begun in Italy a place called Florence and spread to other places in Europe. The period is known as a time of drastic explosion of knowledge where the world underwent critical developmental stages. The period is known to be the link between modernity and
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-- a movement and an era of awakening that turned from the medieval order and laid the basis for Western civilization up to the present. Today‚ when the Renaissance is mentioned‚ what springs to most people’s mind is art. Therefore‚ we will take painting and sculpture as our springboard for discussing some fundamental changes in attitude--using Renaissance art as a window‚ as it were‚ onto the Renaissance mind. In particular we will look at how art evidences new attitudes toward man‚ his place in
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humanism A new concept of human individuality‚ originating in the citystates of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy‚ that was based on desire for excellence in scholarship‚ creative work‚ and education. The humanist movement spread to northern Europe‚ France‚ England‚ and elsewhere‚ and continued to flourish until the mid-seventeenth century. Among its more familiar literary figures are‚ in Italy‚ Dante Alighieri‚ Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch)‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ Baldassare
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value of humility discouraged self-absorption for the profit of the individual. Italians specifically detached themselves from this principle as they had enormous confidence in their ability to achieve great things. Leon Alberti remarked‚ “Men can do all things if they will.” Alberti reveals that individualism leads people to become consciously aware of their own singularity. The thirst for fame‚ the drive for ambition‚ and the desire for success drove such men to take any means to completely achieve
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in order to establish the consequences of change in ecosystems for the well-being of humans‚ and to specify the importance of conservation actions needed to enhance the sustainable use of services supporting various aspects of human life (2000) (Alberti‚ 2005). Findings from the report and recent studies situated
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Mathematics and art have a long historical relationship. The ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks knew about the golden ratio‚ regarded as an aesthetically pleasing ratio‚ and incorporated it into the design of monuments including the Great Pyramid‚[1] theParthenon‚ the Colosseum. There are many examples of artists who have been inspired by mathematics and studied mathematics as a means of complementing their works. The Greek sculptor Polykleitos prescribed a series of mathematical proportions for
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