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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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was a sculptor‚ painter‚ and an architect. He was born on March 6‚ 1475 in the town of Caprese‚ Italy and was regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. During his childhood‚ he had no interests in having a real education and actually going to school. Instead‚ he went local to churches and copied the paintings there and talked to the painters. Later on during adulthood‚ he went to the monastery and examined the corpses. Michelangelo
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prominent Renaissance artists before he moved on to study in Rome. It was in Rome that he was exposed to the works of his idols‚ Raphael and Michelangelo and it was also in Rome that he completed many of his major works while under the patronage of the Medici family back in Florence. Throughout his life he was back and forth between the two cities‚ and to this day all of his remaining works can be found in these locations.
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Machiavelli’s "Prince" is a unique historical work‚ as a letter written to Lorenzo Medici‚ but most of the work is meant for anyone who is able to understand. While the book was meant to serve as a guide for what characteristics the ideal ruler of a country would hold‚ he also hoped that the letter would bring him back in favor of the Medici’s who had previous exiled him. Machiavelli never dictates what or who the ideal prince is‚ but he continually offers examples and advice‚ which is often immoral
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large influence to Machiavelli in his early adulthood and throughout his career. Marsilio Ficino was the son of Cosimo de’ Medici’s physician and was best known for his translations of Plato‚ as well as his attempt to show the harmony of Christianity with Neo-platonic thought. Ficino presided over the intellectual milieu of verbal jousting and textual citation in the Medici court. He became a priest in 1473 and later began the Christian religion. Ficino wrote to leaders‚ as well as the Pope
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shadows‚ along with human anatomy shows the trend towards realism in art. Botticelli was one of the first to paint mythological scenes and was commissioned by the Medici family to create such a work. This refinement of art‚ this intimate analysis of form and thought‚ this love of sensual beauty‚ had appeared at the court of the Medici by the same causes that prompt us to seek them; they are the fruit of a society that has attained the highest degree of well-being‚ wealth and knowledge. In the
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lSAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. FICHA TÉCNICA: NOMBRE: Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial FECHA: 1557 ARQUITECTO: Juan Bautista de Toledo‚posteriormente intervinieron también Juan de Herrera‚Juan de Mijares‚Francisco de Mora y Gian Battista Castello. SITUACIÓN: San Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid) ESTILO: Renacentista TIPOLOGÍA: San Lorenzo del Escorial es un complejo de basílica‚palacio y monasterio situado a unos pocos kilómetros de Madrid‚la función que desempeñó en su día fue de residencia
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Once hung in a Medici villa‚ Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus‚ ca. 1485‚ is one of the most treasured artworks of the Renaissance. The composition is opened up more‚ compared to Botticelli’s Primavera‚ a similar styled painting done a few years prior. The central figure in this tempera painting is the goddess Venus (also known as Aphrodite in Greek mythology). She graces us with her presence by floating to the shore‚ pushed from the winds of gods (Zephyr accompanied by Chloris)‚ on a seashell
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Taylor Webb 6/18/13 Document Analysis Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi Letter 5 Alessandra Strozzi wrote many letters to her children which can convey to us the importance of family in Florence during the Renaissance. Alessandra’s husband Matteo died‚ and so these letters are written from the perspective of a widow‚ not a married woman. In Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King‚ it states that widows of the Renaissance could dispose of the family wealth themselves and were also able to carry on
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Donatello was born on 1386 in Florence‚Italy. When he was young he received an education from a wealthy family called the Martelli’s. He obtained his first contact with the arts of sculpting in a goldsmith workshop. Later on he apprenticed under Lorenzo where he learned the style of gothic sculpting. After his apprenticeship Donatello took a trip to rome and started to delve into old scripts. This experience gave him the styles of ornamental and classical art forms‚ and changed his artwork techniques
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