A bust of Saint Lawrence from Borgo San Lorenzo‚ a region just north of Florence‚ was recently attributed to the famous Florence sculptor‚ Donatello. It was sculpted during the Renaissance‚ circa 1440‚ and it demonstrated characteristics similar to that found in the Classics. The bust appears realistic and almost paradoxically idealistic‚ is viewable from multiple angles and is composed of terra-cotta. Its theme is religious‚ and both Classic and Renaissance sculptures commonly referred to stories
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Hugo van der Goes’s Portinari Masterpiece Hugo van der Goes is considered one of the great northern Italian Renaissance artists. His unique style and artistic inventions inspired numerous contemporary artists in Florence. The Portinari Altarpiece‚ Sant’ Egidio‚ Florence‚ Italy‚ ca. 1476‚ is remarked as great altarpiece within art history that clearly depicts the influence of patronage within society. Tommaso Portinari‚ the donor of the Portinari Altarpiece‚ an Italian agent who worked as an assistant
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of them all; the dome in the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral. After the completion of the bronze doors‚ Brunelleschi went to Rome and studied architecture and mathematics with soon to be friend Donatello. Brunelleschi quickly returned back to Florence once he heard of the competition of the dome in the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral. There were many people‚ mostly masons and carpenters‚ at work building or drawing models on how they think the dome should be built. Out of all the plans submitted
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the tree trunk adorned with a serpent and a grapevine which symbolizes the temptation of sin. http://www.wga.hu/preview/m/michelan/1sculptu/1/4bacchus.jpg Fig. 2 1497 Bacchus Michelangelo Buonarroti Marble Museo Nazionale Del Bargello‚ Florence Here we see a classical sculpture of Bacchus carved out of marble by
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Why does the Italian Renaissance still affect us significantly today? Filled with a great variety of point of views‚ the Italian Renaissance was a period in history where humans were challenged to do more with their lives than solely worshiping God. The Italian Renaissance came about after a devastating disease known as the Black Plague or the Black Death. The Black Death can be traced back to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia in the 1320s. The epidemic reached its height between the years 1348 to 1350
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Florence nightingale who was established for the training nurses during a public meeting. She was considered pioneer in the medical tourism as well. For most of her life spent she was promoting and organising the nursing profession. Florence also wrote everyday sanitary knowledge or the knowledge of nursing or that it can recover from disease it takes a higher place. Though Florence sometimes said to have denied the theory of infection for her entire life the biography disagrees. But Nightingale
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BONDONE Giotto Di Bondone was born around 1267 near Florence‚ Italy. He was an Italian painter and architect better known as Giotto. He married in 1827 to Ricevuta di Lapo del Pela and had several children together. Its said that he was a very ugly man and that is children were also very plain in appearance. Reconstruction shows him as a very short man with a large head and a hooked nose. It is said that he died on January 8‚ 1337 in Florence‚ but as with almost everything else in his life‚ that
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writing and math‚ but his father appreciated his artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 to the noted sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio‚ of Florence. For about a decade‚ da Vinci refined his painting and sculpting techniques and trained in mechanical arts. When he was 20‚ in 1472‚ the painters’ guild of Florence offered da Vinci membership‚ but he remained with Verrocchio until he became an independent master in 1478. Around 1482‚ he began to paint his first commissioned work
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is composed of numerous recurring forms and lines that serve to unify the composition. This results in the spiritual bridge between the divine and the natural world. The altarpiece was commissioned for the Spini family chapel‚ in Santa Trìnita‚ Florence. During this time‚ notable families‚ such as the Spini family‚ dominated the political scene. They had chapels dedicated to their family name and commissioned artwork to fill the spaces. The altarpiece illustrates the Virgin Mary’s body ascending
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Filippo Lippi. In 1467‚ he was left by his master in Florence and apparently joined artistic careers with Verrocchio (Angelis‚ 3). After returning to his family for a short period of time‚ as indicated by tax records‚ Botticelli continued his career with the support of the Medici family‚ one of the most powerful families in Florence‚ Italy. He left Florence in 1480 to help decorate the Sistine Chapel in Rome with some of his
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