Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci April 15‚ 1452 – May 2‚ 1519 Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci (Leonardo Son of Piero of Vinci) by some people the creator of the Renaissance era was born on Vinci‚ twenty miles west of Florence in a farmhouse three kilometers from the center of the city‚ between the town of Anchiano and Faltognano. Leonardo was the illegitimate son of notary Ser Piero Da Vinci and a peasant woman by the name of Caterina. Leonardo was a man of many different talents; among those talents
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being "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci"‚ meaning "Leonardo‚ son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci." Little is known of Leonardo’s early up bringing besides him spending his first five years of life in the household of his father‚ grandparents and uncle‚ Francesco‚ in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera‚ who admired and loved Leonardo but died an early death having a strong impact on him. Another thing to know about Leonardo to help you understand his early
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to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa‚ where there was still one person in the frame‚ but the figure has a straight posture and is dressed. Both of these paintings were painted for patrons; the Venus of Urbino for a wealthy Duke and the Mona Lisa for Francesco del Giocondo‚ a wealthy Florentine silk merchant. Both patrons were progressive and more interested in a single subject‚ rather than large‚ multi-person paintings with religious bearings. The two paintings are similar‚ in that there is an individual
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Francis of Assisi is a comprehensive biography of one of the most holy and influential saints in medieval times written by Andre Vauchez. The book gives us insight into the life of Francesco di Bernadone‚ known to the Catholic Church as St. Francis of Assisi and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor‚ and his charismatic effects on the church and medieval society. Vauchez paints an embellishing picture of the charismatic St. Francis being a revolutionary idealist born in 1181 or 1182 that challenged
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The building in Renaissance architecture[ Despite its history‚ the building is seen as one of the great examples of the new style. Its more notable features include: • the attempt to create a proportional relationship between nave and aisle (aisle bays are square whereas nave bays are 2X1. • the articulation of the structure in pietra serena (Italian: “dark stone”). • the use of an integrated system of column‚ arches‚ entablatures. • a clear relationship between column and pilaster‚ the
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Thomas Frost December 10th‚ 2014 Dr. Rasmussen Music History I MUSC-3370 George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel was born February 23rd‚ 1685 to a family indifferent to music in Halle‚ Germany. He spent the majority of his career in London and is best known for his operas‚ oratorios‚ anthems and organ concertos. He opened three commercial opera companies to supply the English with Italian operas and wrote more than forty operas in just over thirty years of his career. His works are said to
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The Vatican told Francesco Borgongini Duca‚ the papal nuncio to Italy‚ to visit the people at the POW camps. Hugh O’Flaherty was brought along as an interpreter and assistant. When he saw what was happening in the camps‚ it shocked him. He felt so bad that he made sure that
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Prologue On what shall be said in this Essay The Medici were an illustrious family that rose to fame and fortune during the Renaissance. Starting as humble merchants‚ the family grew in fame and prosperity until the name was known throughout all of Europe. Every aspect of the Renaissance was influenced by them. They influenced society as a whole‚ and their ways of relating to the different aspects of life set up standards that were followed‚ copied or completely avoided by their peers
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Elizabethan Poetry I Drama dominates our syllabus but the Renaissance was a Golden Age not just for English drama‚ but also for English poetry. But what was English poetry? George Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie (1595): early attempts to think about English poetry as a distinct national tradition. Puttenham and Sidney were concerned to build a canon and help shape English poetry into a tradition capable of rivalling more prestigious
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Galileo Galilei Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence)‚ Italy‚ the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei‚ a famous lutenist‚ composer‚ and music theorist; and Giulia Ammannati. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a healthy scepticism for established authority‚[15] the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation‚ an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm‚ as well as the illuminative
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