Ever wonder what it would be like to invent something that would be used for hundreds of years to come? That’s what Galileo Galilei did. Galileo Galilei belongs in the house 8-1 Genius Hall of Fame. Born in 1564 in Florence‚ Italy‚ Galileo was the oldest of six children. In 1583‚ he attended the University of Pisa to study medicine but became fascinated with many other subjects‚ particularly mathematics and physics. He performed studies and tests on falling objects and then wrote a manuscript about
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romantic Shakespeare play about two couples of lovers. The play is set in Messina‚ deep in the heart of Italy and is based in Elizabethan times. The lovers are namely; Claudio and Hero‚ Bennedick and Beatrice. Claudio is a noble Florentine count from Florence. Bennedick is a war hero from Padua. Both are honourable war heroes fighting for Don Pedro the prince of Aragon. Beatrice is the niece of Leonato the Governor of Messina. At the beginning of the play Don Pedro and his valiant fighters return from
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GUCCI Dr. Nan McIssac MKT/571 The retailer of my choice will be Gucci. I am in love with everything about Gucci and what it represents. Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence‚ Italy in 1921. Gucci is an Italian fashion label which produces clothing‚ watches‚ jewelry‚ shoes and leather goods. In 2010 Gucci launched it’s very first children’s clothing line. It is the biggest selling Italian brand and it is exquisite. It should not be surprising as to
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Biography Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15‚ 1452‚ near the village of Vinci about 25 miles west of Florence. He is the best example of a Renaissance Man – someone who was very good at many things He is considered one of the greatest painters of all time and the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Everyone agrees that Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest of all painters. But Leonardo would be famous if he had never painted a stroke. For he was also a great inventor
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more thoughtful David; one that is concentrating on the extreme situation ahead of him. Lastly I will talk about the size of Michelangelo’s David. Rendered as a giant nearly 17 feet tall‚ this statue was originally meant to be placed high upon the Florence cathedral. The size of this David changes how we used to view David as being a underdog and a child‚ and causes us to see him as a protector concentrating on an unseen threat. I stated in my thesis that each of the Davids we are analyzing are
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Through 1478 until 1482‚ Leonardo had his own studio in Florence. While there‚ he received a commission for the Adoration of the Kings‚ however‚ he did not finish it. He became a court artist for the Duke of Milan in 1482 and stayed there until 1499. In Milan‚ Leonardo painted Madonna of the Rocks around 1483
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The Black Plague in Florence 1348 Western Civilization & the World 1 An Essay Page 1. I am a lawyer living in Florence. The year is 1348. I am writing this chronicle for my friend‚ Marchione di Coppo Stefani‚ as a strange and mysterious plague of unprecedented proportion leaves many of our citizens dead within a matter of days. I want to leave this as a legacy for those who may survive‚ as I have no assurance that this dreadful disease will not claim me as it has so many
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Michelangelo’s Moses The Michelangelo sculpture that I have chosen to write about is Moses. The immediate thing that struck me about this sculpture that led to me choosing to write about it is due to the intricate details in the muscle tone‚ and hair detail (in particular his beard). After looking at it for a little I came to realize that its not just about the details that attracted me to it but also caught my eye for the incredibly stoic look on Moses’ face and the bizarre element of horns. And
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Ptolemy introduces Geography. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew‚ in a grid that spanned the globe. Latitude was measured from the equator. (1406) John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher‚ and translator. His English version of the bible was published in 1408. The Bible he created‚ the first literal translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English‚ was more a work of his followers than him but tradition still tends to attribute it to Wycliffe
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doing in regards to the criminal offense. Tassi was sentenced to a year in jail. Shortly after Artemisia’s father abruptly arranged a marriage‚ in order to preserve his daughter’s reputation. She married Pierantonio Stiattesi. They later moved to Florence‚ where Gentileschi became a renowned Italian painter. She was admitted into a painters’ academy‚ assisted Galileo Galilei and was safeguarded by the influential and mighty de’ Medici family. In 1621 Artemisia Gentileschi relocated back to Rome. She
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