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    Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable

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    sculptor was Marzocco. b. Lions are a part of its iconography. c. It merges Christian and Classical motifs. d. The effigy of Bruni lies on a bier. Answer: a 6. Who of the following was NOT a condottiere? a. Federico da Montefeltro b. Sir John Hawkwood c. Erasmo da Narni d. Niccolò da Tolentino e. Leon Battista Alberti Answer: e 7. Which author goes with which text? a. Dante – History of the Florentine People b. Brunelleschi – Commentarii c. Alberti – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters‚ Sculptors

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    Shaping North America 350 million years ago- The Appalachian Mountains formed 225 million years ago- Earth’s supercontinent broke up into separate continents. 135-25 million years ago- Western North American mountain ranges formed. 10 Million years ago- North America’s basic geological shape is formed 2 Million years ago- The Ice Age begins; glaciers carve into the land creating formations such as the Great Lakes. 10‚000 years ago- The Ice Age ends Peopling the Americas Evidence suggests

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    architecture depicts the Georgian period and style. Florence’s ideas of beauty through architecture have had a worldwide impact and the city has an impressive artistic legacy. Tourists often visit the oldest building in Florence‚ Battister di San Giovanni‚ which was dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The interior of the building is decorated with beautiful mosaics. The doors of the building were made during the medieval and Renaissance era with bronze by Andrea Pisano and Lorenzo Ghiberti. Florence

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    Abduction from the Seraglio‚ had great success following his marriage with Constanze. While in Vienna‚ Wolfgang wrote many operas including Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. Joseph Hayden was a close friend of Wolfgang and they influenced each other’s work. Wolfgang worked closely with Lorenzo Da Ponte‚ an excellent opera librettist. Don Giovanni was an opera that had music by Wolfgang and Italian libretto by Ponte. This opera has both comic and dramatic

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    (1) Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) As the first of the Humanist‚ he was one of the most influential poets of the Middle Ages. And he is considered by most to be the founder Renaissance Humanism in general. Petrarch was the first and greatest representative of the humanistic phase of the Italian Renaissance. He was the first scholar of the mediaeval time who fully realized and appreciated the supreme excellence and beauty of the classical literature and its value as a means of culture.

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    seventeen he became an apprentice to renowned sculptor of Lorenzo Ghiberti. In Ghiberti’s studio Donatello learned new bronze techniques. He became as master of the medium by assisting Ghiberti in constructing and decorating the bronze doors the San Giovanni baptistery in Florence. In 1407 he left Ghiberti to work on the Cathedral in Florence. Later that year he received two important commissions; the life-sized marble David and Saint John the Evangelist. His next project would be St. Mark for the outside

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    political reasons Giovanni Boccaccio wrote "The Decameron" in Italian vernacular supporter of Petrarch Sandro Botticelli Florentine painter "Birth of Venus‚" "Primavera" Filippo Brunelleschi Florentine architect designed duomo of Florence cathedral‚ chapel of Pazzi family Michelangelo sculptor by nature‚ painted but hated it; incredible realism introvert‚ hated but thrived on competition work includes Sistine Chapel ceiling‚ marble David‚ and the Pieta studied but criticized da Vinci-equally/more

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    Chapter 1 Outline I. The Shaping of North America A. About 225 million years ago‚ a single supercontinent contained the entire world’s dry land and later enormous chunks began to drift away. B. Continuous shifting and folding of the earth’s crust formed the Appalachians‚ Rockies‚ and other huge mountain ranges. C. The Great Ice Age hits the world and when it retreated‚ it left the entire landscape of North America changed forever. II. Peopling the Americas A. Land Bridge theory 1. Occurred

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    Giovanni Battista Sammartini‚ was one of the most renowned early symphony composers. He composed symphonies with three movements‚ and used rising scales‚ repeated melodic ideas‚ arpeggiation‚ and a pronounced bass. The Symphony soon spread all over Europe

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