The Renaissance was a name given to period of history. Renaissance means a ‘rebirth’. The Renaissance movement that originated in Italy during the end of the middle Ages‚ explains "Medieval and Modern History." It served as a rebirth in education‚ art‚ and technology .this created a new culture. One must wonder why Italy was the perfect setting for a Renaissance to create a new era of time. Italy was in a great location on the map and easy sea trade routes. In the city-states area had easy water
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opportunities for those in need. Those in need of jobs included men‚ women‚ and even children. Even after the Industrial Revolution‚ child labor was still a huge issue in America. With the rise of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement‚ reformers such as Florence Kelley took the stage to improve the conditions for women and children in the workforce through labor reforms. Kelley‚ who was a worker and reformer‚ addressed this issue in her speech at the convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association
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I chose for my Italian Renaissance painting the Birth of Venus. It was painted by Sandro Botticelli‚ who lived from 1445 to 1510‚ with Tempera on canvas around 1484-86 and is currently located at the Galleria degli Uffizi‚ Florence. I chose for my Northern Renaissance painting the Arnolfini Wedding by Jan van Eyck‚ who lived from 1395 to 1441‚ Oil on oak panel of 3 vertical boards in 1434 and is currently located in the National Gallery‚ London. Botticelli uses a more two dimensional
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Background * Niccolo Machiavelli born in Florence Italy‚ May 3‚ 1469 * Father was a lawyer * Family had own personal library that had books on Roman and Greek philosophy * Saw the troubles of the French invasion (1493) * He was employed in diplomatic services and as a historiographer. * Wrote many books‚ but is best known for his masterpiece The Prince in 1513 * Never considered himself a philosopher * Yet he is considered one of the greatest philosophers * Died
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Most famous of all these were Cosimo de Medici head of the Medici banking family and defacto rule of Florence. Cosimo was one of the first to truly embrace artifictics patronage as away to both guarantee his own legacy and to honor the church‚ since the mostly commissioned art for major churches. Under Cosimo’s patronage‚ Michelozzi designed the famous Palazzo
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factor to the preparation of life. Its main goal was to improve the lives of citizens and help their communities. What did Donatello do in Rome? With Michelozzo he produced a series of works‚ including the tomb of Pope John XXIII in the Baptistery‚ Florence‚ and the tomb of Cardinal Brancacci in S. Angelo a Nilo‚ Naples. What was Renaissance art influenced by? Humanism What did Renaissance artists seek to imitate? They tried to imitate nature and real life in their work. In politics‚ the Renaissance
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Machiavelli analyses the strengths and weaknesses of both auctorial governments and monarchal governments in his works The Prince and The Discourses. According to Machiavelli‚ governments‚ no matter what form they take‚ descend into corruption. Aristocracies become oligarchy’s‚ monarchies become tyrannous‚ etc. (Machiavelli‚ 111). Thus‚ Machiavelli states that the superlative governmental system is for all three forms of ‘good governments’ to be combined under one constitution. In this way‚ each
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della Francesca‚ Domenico Ghirlandaio‚ Perugino‚ Michelangelo‚ Raphael‚ Botticelli‚ Leonardo da Vinci‚ and Titian. The same is true for architecture‚ as practiced by Brunelleschi‚ Leone Alberti‚ Andrea Palladio‚ and Bramante. Their works include Florence Cathedral‚ St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome‚ and the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (to name a only a few‚ not to mention many splended private residences: see Renaissance architecture). Finally‚ the Aldine Press‚ founded by the printer Aldo Manuzio‚
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Cited: Smiths‚ Jeffrey C. The Northern Renaissance. New York: Phaidon Press‚ 2004. Sypher‚ Wylie. Four Stages of Renaissance Style. Garden City‚ NY: Doubleday & Company‚ Inc‚ 1955. Vasari‚ Giorgio. Lives of the Artists. Florence‚ Italy: Primary Document/Historical Text‚ 1558.
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Da Vinci was studying anatomy and his findings were way ahead of his time and years before the beginnings of the scientific revolution. He was born in Vinci‚ Tuscany on the 15th of April 1452. He was the son of a Florentine Lawyer and grew up in Florence as an apprentice of Andrea Verrocchio. He began his study of anatomy around 1489 and “shown particular interest in the head and brain”. Anatomy seemed to be an ongoing fascination for Da Vinci for he continued to produce anatomical studies in brief
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