brother Agostino‚ opened a painter’s Academy. The 17th century critic Giovanni Bellori praised Carracci as the epitome of Roman Baroque. While the Carraccis laid special emphasis on draftsmanship‚ they also worked in a style mediating between the Florentine emphasis on linear drawing and the Venetian attention to the glimmering use of color leading to a mistier edge of objects. These qualities became particularly associated with artists of the Bolognese School. It is difficult to distinguish the
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to what was perceived as their mercantile self-interest and lust for power. Iago’s remark that Venetians are ‘super-subtle’ is not far from how Shakespeare’s audience would have seen them. Cassio‚ who is so maliciously wronged by Iago‚ is a Florentine – a background which distances him from the manipulative ways of the Venetian Iago. Cyprus From Act II onwards‚ the play moves to Cyprus. It is significant that this Act begins with a violent storm at sea. The storm fortuitously devastates
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Leonardo Da Vinci And Mona Lisa Born near Florence‚ Italy in 1452. “Leonardo da Vinci became became known as the universal genius” (Monkeyshines On Art & Great Artists). He was one of the greatest painter of the Italian Renaissance he also was an architect‚ a engineer‚ and sculptor. When he was a child Leonardo was apprentice of the Andrea del Verroccio a famous painter. Some time in his 50s Leonardo created his best work ever and most famous painting The Mona Lisa. In 1517 he settled in France
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Petrarch ’s journey to the peak of Mount Ventoux was one that sparked a multitude of questions of his inner self. It was due to Petrarch ’s laziness‚ that he found himself making the mistake of taking the unworthy‚ longer‚ easier path‚ again and again. This path would eventually deter him from his final destination‚ and he would later have to take the steeper‚ more direct path in addition to the first path. Through this trial and error‚ Petrarch was able to contemplate and extend his thought processes
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MIDTERM REVIEW SHEET Music 15 – Fall 2013 Date: Thursday‚ October 31 Time: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Please be early‚ if possible‚ Value: 40 points (20% of total grade) Format: The exam will consist of listening identification and general knowledge questions‚ definitions‚ and one short answer question. Please bring a black or blue pen. Section One – Listening Identification (15 points) Identification of listening examples from the syllabus (title‚ composer‚ time period‚ genre‚ other elements
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Renaissance period was considered a revival time in Europe with a rise in Classical learning and values. The scholars and thinkers consider it to be a new birthing of Classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural standstill. At the beginning of the Renaissance‚ ideas were expressed by the logical movement called humanism. The movement involved the failures in the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire to provide a stable and uniting structure for the society of spiritual
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with tables‚ and the surface of every one of them was covered in books” There were dozens of hand-copied books‚ one manuscript‚ for example‚ was one thousand years old. Her father got to have those books and manuscripts because he worked for the Florentine historian and scholar: Poggio Bracciolini who also worked for Cosimo de Medici. Cosimo wanted his people to know the ancient Greek and Roman writers and documents that were destroyed with the great library in Alexandria (Egypt. Many of these were
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Check Point: Rough Draft of Research Paper Research Writing / COM220 Adam Meehan Madeline Chavez October 13‚ 2010 Drug addiction‚ disease or choice‚ the National Institution of Drugs Association (NIDA) has determined Drug Addiction a chronic‚ relapsing brain disease while opposing
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Giovanni Boccaccio The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio is best known for the Decameron. For his Latin works and his role in reviving Hellenistic learning in Florence‚ he may be considered one of the early humanists. The culture of Giovanni Boccaccio is rooted in the Middle Ages‚ but his conception of life points forward to the Renaissance. Boccaccio ’s work reflects both his middleclass mercantile background and the chivalric ideals of the Neapolitan court‚ where he spent his youth. He strove
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when their army crushed the Florentines at the Battle of Montaperti. In the 13th century Siena became an important banking center‚ but still it was unable to compete with its rival Florence. The popes imposed economic sanctions agains Siena’s merchants. The Ghibelline cause declined and not much later Siena itself turned Guelf. But Siena could still compete with Florence on an artistic level. The Sienese school was the only school that could compete with the Florentine school. Duccio is the greatest
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