My Trip to Rome‚ Italy I had learned I was being sent to Italy in March of 2000 for a machine tool exhibition. I found out the happy news just before leaving work. Excitedly I jumped into my car and started my journey home. As I drove home down I-95 through all of the usual evening traffic I just kept thinking about ho I was going to tell my husband we were going to Italy. That night I continuously paced the floor looking out of my bedroom window to see if my husband was home from work yet.
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Florence‚ Italy‚ commonly called the Florence Duomo Baptistry‚ has a mosaiced ceiling. The octagonal ceiling features many different bible scenes‚ saints‚ and other people such as the disciples and apostles (Lourdes Flores). Fresco is a type of art where murals are painted onto freshly laid or wet plaster. Water is used as a binder to secure the pigment to the plaster. Two famous locations that have fresco are the Sistine chapel in Vatican city and the Mariä Verkündigung church in
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How is the word myth used popularly? For example‚ what does the statement‚ “It’s a myth” mean? In contrast‚ how is the word myth used in the academic context? After considering the definition in your textbooks and course materials‚ write a definition in your own words. * * A myth is a popular story or belief that has been told for many years for many different reasons without any real proof of the story. Some of the reasons that the myth is started could be to scare someone into be good
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entire wall in the Sistine Chapel. This is a fresco painting and it’s 48 by 44 feet. This painting was inspired by the Christian bible and portrays the second coming of Christ. This painting draws your attention from the center where Christ is standing with his mother beside him and extends to towards his surrounding‚ which is all different saints with various instruments. Initially‚ most of the characters in this scene were undressed but since this art piece was placed in a chapel he was ordered to
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the front on the steps writing‚ which reflects his apparently solitary life. He is shown as a large figure‚ whilst the other characters as much smaller in stature. At the time that Raphael was painting this fresco Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel and he was used as the model for Heraclitus. On the left of the picture we can see Pythagoras‚ the great associated harmony and numbers and science. He is shown teaching a group of scholars as the gather around him‚ highly engaged. The painting
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Evolution‚ change‚ progressing‚ transformation . . . the Renaissance. A cultural rebirth‚ a time of change‚ of the progression back into the Roman and Greek arts and literature‚ a time period that was remembered. Power and wealth were key to the rebirth of the arts‚ and Italy an ideal location. In the Italian Renaissance‚ people began to look beyond tangible ideas‚ alternatively‚ pondering the abstract world‚ the philosophy of life‚ reforming the Christian Church into art‚ and artist freedom along
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Kip’s Strength and Weaknesses based on the IB Learner Profile In the 1992 novel‚ “The English Patient‚” written by Canadian author‚ Michael Ondaatje‚ Kirpal “Kip” Singh is a sapper who was selected to be a part of the legendary Lord Suffolk’s sapper unit. A sapper’s job includes building and repairing roads and bridges‚ laying and clearing mines‚ along with other similar tasks. Lord Suffolk’s unit would be mainly focus on clearing mines due to Lord Suffolk’s success in that particular field. Kip
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replace them with the pope’s other nephew‚ Girolamo Riario. Although Sixtus’ crusade against the Turks and involvement in the “Pazzi Conspiracy” were blots in his papacy‚ Sixtus had made several contributions to Rome‚ such as building of the Sistine Chapel‚ the Sistine Bridge‚
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Rome‚ Naples‚ Milan‚ Venice‚ and Florence all have many things in common that brings all these well known cities together; Italy. Italy has so much to offer ranging from their diverse climate‚ unique features as well as know features‚ and lastly‚ the influence the structure and shape of the country has on the people. The climate of Italy is usually a Mediterranean mix of cool‚ rainy‚ and many hot summers and cool winters. The Alps have the most influential effect on the country based on the rain
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What factors happened to help transition into Renaissance? What came from the transition? Many factors helped transition into the Renaissance. First off‚ there was a less dense population due to the Hundred Year’s War and Bubonic Plague. Many serfs died and the remaining populations realized they don’t have to be controlled by the nobles and get better wages by leaving. From this‚ trade flourished from the new merchants and the feudal system collapsed. From the website‚http://www.biography.com/people/petrarch-9438891
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