Comparing Venus of Urbino Through inspiration from Giorgiones’ Sleeping Venus‚ Titian a younger contemporary‚ developed the standard for the female nude‚ in his Venus of Urbino. Unlike his predecessor‚ Giorgione‚ Titian’s painting is one of the first indoor nudes in the renaissance era. The painting portrays a reclining nude in oil‚ her body softly rounded is unapologetically sensual and her attributes are painted as a commoner instead of a goddess. The compositional aspects of the painting must
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The Protestant Reformation of the Sixteenth Century The Protestant Reformation ignited a religious reform movement that separated the western Christian church into Catholic and Protestant groups. Martin Luther embarked on a journey to start the religious reform movement; there were other developments before him that set a foundation for a religious alteration in the sixteenth century. The Protestant Reformation allowed for Protestantism to flourish throughout Europe‚ united the Roman Catholic Church
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To what extent was Martin Luther responsible for the ’revolutionary’ Protestant reformation in Germany? In this essay‚ I will attempt to assess the extent of Martin Luther’s role in the Protestant reformation that took place at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Germany. Luther’s name is synonymous with the religious Reformation of the sixteenth century‚ or the ’evangelical movement’ as it is sometimes called‚ but the actual details of the Reformation itself are somewhat lesser known. Luther’s
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European society in the Middle Ages was predominately rural. The great urban centres of the Roman Empire had either decayed or remained as administrative and religious centres. The societal wealth and power rested within the countryside. The countryside began to experience economic growth in the 11th century. This economic growth would trigger a series of changes to the European societal order in the 12th century. While the majority of the population remained in the countryside‚ an influx of people
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Analyse the political factors involved in the Unification of Italy up to 1861 Italian Unification or Italian Risorgimento is known as the chain of political and military events that produced a united Italian peninsula under the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. These events can be broken down in four stages: Revolutionary‚ Cavour’s Policy and the Role of Piedmont‚ Garibaldi’s Campaign‚ and the creation of the Italian Kingdom. The unification of Italy up to 1861 is due to two main political factors. The
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- James Colledge Pope‚ the government of Sir John A. Macdonald appointed him judge of the Prince County Court. - He married Helen DesBrisay in 1851. - Father MacDonald and William Pope had clashed in public concerning the temporal powers of the papacy. - The reason for Pope’s resigning of his seat‚ was because his
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writing and art it produced. That art then flowed freely outward to the rest of Italy and the European continent. The Medici maintained the stability of these connections through financial and political means. The connection they established with the Papacy was particularly beneficial to both Florence and Rome. The two cities‚ which might have otherwise been rivals‚ mutually developed under the spirit of cooperation during the Renaissance. The bankers like the Medici and other businessmen such as
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The Crusades The Crusades were a series of holy wars launched by the Christian states of Europe against the Saracens. Back then ‘Saracen’ was a word used to describe a Moslem. In 1095 The Crusades began when Pope Claremont preached the First Crusade at the Council of Claremont. The reason for the Crusades was a war between the Moslems and the Christians. They fought for the city of Jerusalem‚ as the city held a Holy significance to Christian religion. They also fought for revenge for an earlier
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During the 1400s and the 1500s many people tried to expose the church’s corruption and to make reforms. These reformers were usually persecuted by church officials and kings‚ some were even burned at the stake. One such reformer who both the pope and emperor Charles V tried to silence was Martin Luther In 1521‚ Martin Luther was summoned by emperor Charles V to the Diet of the Worms to face train for his attacks on the church. Before the Diet of the Worms‚ Luther lets it be known that he did
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John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II‚ Italian: Giovanni Paolo II)‚ sometimes called Blessed John Paul or John Paul the Great‚ born Karol Józef Wojtyła (Polish: [ˈkarɔl ˈjuzɛf vɔjˈtɨwa]; 18 May 1920‚ Wadowice‚ Republic of Poland – 2 April 2005‚ Vatican City)‚ reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523. A very charismatic figure‚ John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most
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