BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC Music is a composition of three important elements which are rhythm‚ melody‚ and harmony. The roots of Western music are strongly influenced by classical music. Tracing back its history‚ classical music is divided into six different periods which includes music from the Gregorian chants to Beethoven’s symphonies to the contemporary artists. The longest and most distant era or period of musical history is the Medieval Era‚ otherwise known as the Middle Age Period. During
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Background: In 1466‚ at the age of fourteen‚ Leonardo was apprenticed to the most successful artists of his day‚ Andrea di Cione‚ known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio educated Leonardo humanities. Other famous painters such as Ghirlandaio‚ Perugino‚ Botticelli‚ and Lorenzo di Credi were apprenticed with the workshop. Leonardo was exposed to technical and artistic skills. He had the opportunity to learn drafting‚ chemistry‚ leather working‚ mechanics‚ carpentry‚ drawing‚ painting‚ sculpting and modeling
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Medici (James). Lorenzo spent an abundant amount of money on Greek and Latin literature manuscripts to have them reproduced (Columbia). His support to the arts gave him prominence in Florence. He encouraged Italian painters and sculptures‚ such as Sandro Botticollio‚ Andrea del Verrocchio‚ and his apprentice Leonardo Davinci. Lorenzo de’ Medici enjoyed teaching young students who came to his garden where he had a school for sculptors in San Marco to learn the styles of great artists of the past (Wagner
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perception of Greek mythology through subsequent centuries.[2] From the early years of Renaissance‚ artists portrayed subjects from Greek mythology alongside more conventional Christian themes. Among the best-known subjects of Italian artists are Botticelli ’s Birth of Venus and Pallas and the Centaur‚ the Ledas of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo‚ and Raphael ’s Galatea.[2] Through the medium of Latin and the works of Ovid‚ Greek myth influenced medieval and Renaissance poets such as Petrarch‚ Boccaccio
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paintings showing the common life of people. Math and science were used to complete the correct proportion of the human body in paintings and sculptures. An example of humanist art is The Birth of Venus‚ a painting made from Renaissance Italian painter Botticelli. This piece of art is focused only on humans and their potential. (Doc 6) The David is a humanist Renaissance sculpture‚ made by a famous Renaissance artist Michelangelo. (Doc 4) Many great artists appeared during the Renaissance as well‚ such
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represent the body weight preferences of Europeans at those times. In his paintings The Judgment of Paris (1632) and Venus at a Mirror (1614) all of the women are over-weight or obese‚ which was considered attractive. At the same time‚ Venus portrayed in Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) painting‚ is very thin and skinny that contradicts with the well-known common standards of beauty in the Renaissance. So‚ it is hard to say whether Ruben’s and Botticelli’s painted women represented their personal
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Brunelleschi to wonderful effect. The basic of artistic method and the use of perspective was a renewed desired to represent by painting to the beauty of nature and to solve the axioms of aesthetics‚ with the works of Leonardo‚ Michelangelo‚ Raphael‚ Botticelli Donatello and Titan. Giotto attempted drawings in perspective using an algebraic method to determine the placement of distant lines. Also they started using better techniques in the shadowing. It makes the painting more alive. The other main point
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Painters‚ sculptors‚ poets‚ and writers of the past century‚ such as Dante‚ Shakespeare‚ and Pluton have been at least once inspired by the Greek mythology. Great writers and painters such as Botticelli‚ Dante‚ Shakespeare and Milton often referred to Greek mythology in their works. Greek mythology had also an important influence on philosophy. According to leardershipclassics.org‚ a great Greek philosopher such as Socrates was considered as one
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(inspired by Ancient Greece and Rome Individualism (learning human affairs) Power (exploration‚ planning‚ music‚ map making) 15 Painting humanistic ideals realistic figures in unnatural backgrounds science taught art linear perspective 16 Botticelli great artist supported by Lorenzo Medici works show use of classical subject matter and the effect of motion (Renaissance
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The Path of the Cardiac Pacemaker The cardiac pacemaker has been around for a very long time and will to continue to be around for even longer. The historical and future path of the pacemaker is endless with possibilities only limited by technology. Every day research labs try to find ways to make the life better for anyone that may need to have one implanted. Around 40% of all human deaths are attributed to cardiovascular diseases. Cardiac pacing has become a therapeutic tool used worldwide with
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