El Greco was born in 1541 in Heraklion‚ Crete‚ Greece. He is one of the most recognized people from the renaissance and he was known to many as an artist but he is also an architect and a sculptor. His original name was Doménikos Theotokópoulos but he is widely and most famously known as El Greco which meant the greek in spanish. He was trained to be a painter when he was very young‚ later he moved to Venice because at that time Crete belonged to Venice. He then decided to move to Rome and lived
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Renaissance is the term used to describe the period of European history that saw a renewed interest in the arts. The Renaissance began in 14th¬century Italy and spread to the rest of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period‚ the fragmented feudal society of the Middle Ages‚ with its agricultural economy and church¬dominated intellectual and cultural life‚ was transformed into a society increasingly dominated by central political institutions‚ with an urban‚ commercial economy and lay
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Brithny Zhang 10/1/10 The Trinity (La Trinidad) by El Greco This oil on canvas painting was implemented between 1577 and 1580‚ and was one of nine paintings that El Greco made for the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos. It represents the scene in which God‚ the most imposing figure in the painting‚ is holding his son Jesus Christ‚ who presumably has passed away. The third part of the trinity El Greco is referring to resides in the presence of the dove flying overhead‚ which is the symbol
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Proto Renaissance art‚ 1280-1400 Italian Renaissance painting Giotto‚ Lamentation‚ Cappella degli Scrovegni In Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries‚ the sculpture of Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni Pisano‚ working at Pisa‚ Siena and Pistoia shows markedly classicizing tendencies‚ probably influenced by the familiarity of these artists with ancient Roman sarcophagi. Their masterpieces are the pulpits of the Baptistery and Cathedral of Pisa. Contemporary with Giovanni Pisano‚ the
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Renaissance 14th-17th Century -means “revival”‚ also‚ ’rebirth’ revival of interest in ancient Greek‚ Roman culture‚ humanist scholars attempted to rid feudal Europe of Church domination and conservatism -old sciences revived‚ new science emerged -national languages and cultures took shape‚ free from Roman Church authority---art and literature flourished -began in Florence Italy‚ spread to all of Europe Due to its geographic position‚ foreign trade and commerce developed in Italy. ---accumulation
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the Persians. The Persians represented the opposite in ideals of everything that is Greek and threatened the end of political sovereignty‚ higher thinking‚ and innovation. Overcoming the Persians was a critical accomplishment by the Greeks in the Greco-Persian wars of the 5th century and can be attributed to their superior strategizing and exceptional leadership in time of crisis. The Persian wars got its start in 499 BCE on the eastern shores of the Aegean Sea. The Greek colonies of Iona had been
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The Renaissance From the fall of the Holy Roman Empire to there was a dark age in Europe where all technology and thinking stopped. Europe was a battleground for feudal lords and their knights trying to control the surrounding territories. The dark ages started to end when Pope Urban the 2nd called for the crusades of the holy lands and the city of Jerusalem. The renaissance began in Italy‚ and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century‚ its influence was felt in literature‚ philosophy
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Greeks during the Greco-Persian War manipulated terrain as a force multiplier in many battles; at the Battle of Marathon‚ Miltiades used the Vrana Valley to prevent a Persian march on Athens‚ at the Battle of Thermopylae‚ Leonidas used the narrow‚ Thermopylae pass to invalidate the Persian numbers‚ and at the Battle of Artemisium‚ Themistocles used the Artemisium Strait to aid in his battle against the Persian fleets. The best manipulation and use of terrain by the Greeks in the Greco-Persian War was
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The Renaissance defined.-- "Renaissance‚" French for "rebirth‚" perfectly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. During the era known by this name‚ Europe emerged from the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth. Also‚ and perhaps most importantly‚ the Renaissance was an age in which artistic‚ social‚ scientific‚ and political thought turned in new directions. DANTE
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