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    As discussed by Kloss ( )‚ the Temptation of Adam and Eve‚ by Masolino (1424-25) and the Expulsion of Adam and Eve‚ by Masaccio (1425-28) are two of the frescoes in a series commissioned by the wealthy silk merchant‚ Felice Brancacci in the Brancacci Chapel‚ in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. The subject matter of the cycle is the life of Saint Peter‚ speculatively as honoring the first Pope‚ Peter and “significantly‚ this family chapel had been founded in the late fourteenth

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    Leonardo da Vinci had many different types of interests. He helped science in many ways. He made sculptures and he painted. He painted one of the most famous paintings‚ The Mona Lisa. Leonardo was born on April 15‚ 1452. He died on May 2‚ 1519. He was 67 when he died. He was born in a farmhouse in present day Italy. He was raised by his father and step-mother. Young Leonardo received little formal education. Vinci is the name of a town. Da Vinci means “from Vinci”. Ludovico brought da Vinci to Milan

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    Sabrina Salas Mcom70 December 4‚ 2017 Visual Analysis of The piece I am going to be discussing is Giulio Romano’s piece Two Lovers. The piece was painted between 1523 and 1524 the medium is oil on panel transferred to canvas. Giulio Romano was a student of Raphael and in the 1520s‚ he turned the muscular‚ dynamic‚ and classical style he learned while working on his master’s frescoes in Rome to the unseemly end of pure titillation. He drew a series of 16 explicit scenes that became known as I Modi

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    Marchione di Coppo Stefani‚ The Florentine Chronicle Marchione di Coppo Stefani was born in Florence in 1336. He wrote his Florentine Chronicle in the late 1370s and early 1380s. Stefani‚ Marchione di Coppo. Cronaca fiorentina. Rerum Italicarum Scriptores‚ Vol. 30. ‚ ed. Niccolo Rodolico. Citta di Castello: 1903-13. Rubric 643: Concerning A Mortality In The City Of Florence In Which Many People Died. In the year of the Lord 1348 there was a very great pestilence in the city and district of Florence

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    The European Renaissance began in 14th-century Italy with Petrarch and Boccaccio. Prior to the Renaissance‚ Latin and Provencal were the literary language in Italy. It was only in the 13th century that Italian authors began writing in their native language. In the early Italian Renaissance‚ much of the focus was on translating and studying classics from antiquity‚ but soon many writers‚ not content to rest on the laurels of ancient authors‚ attempted to integrate the methods and styles of ancient

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    The David: Symbol of the Renaissance When you hear the word renaissance what do you think of? You probably thought of the Mona Lisa‚ Michelangelo or Davinci. Many look at this time period in the lense of art and invention‚ It seems that everyone who was famous during this time was either an artist or an inventor‚ which is why many believe that the David is a perfect representation of Michelangelo’s works and the renaissance because of the amount of skill and thought put into it that shows the value

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    The Renaissance was a name given to period of history. Renaissance means a ‘rebirth’. The Renaissance movement that originated in Italy during the end of the middle Ages‚ explains "Medieval and Modern History." It served as a rebirth in education‚ art‚ and technology .this created a new culture. One must wonder why Italy was the perfect setting for a Renaissance to create a new era of time. Italy was in a great location on the map and easy sea trade routes. In the city-states area had easy water

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    This following three page essay is about merchants. I will be describing of how merchants affected the Renaissance‚what merchants did‚ what merchants sold. And so on. The merchants in the renaissance really helped out because there were a lot of them and they were all over the place. There were many items that merchants sold during the renaissance. A lot of the merchants sold different I items. A lot of merchants sold same items. And some merchants sold very different items. The items that almost

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    Gianlorenzo Bernini Kelsey Hardy Born in 1598 in Naples‚ Gianlorenzo Bernini would go on to dominate the art world with his sculptures and architecture. Bernini was born to sculptor Pietro Bernini and Angelica Galante. He was the sixth of thirteen children. Bernini would not marry until May 1639‚ when he wed twenty-two year old Caterina Tezio. She bore him eleven children. He later died in Rome in 1680 and was buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Bernini’s career began under his

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    Christina Rossetti was born at 38 Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street)‚ London to Gabriele Rossetti‚ a poet and a political exile from Vasto‚ Abruzzo‚ and Frances Polidori‚ the sister of Lord Byron’s friend and physician‚ John William Polidori.[1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante became an influential artist and poet‚ and William and Maria both became writers.[1] Christina‚ the youngest‚ was a lively child. She dictated her first story to her mother before she had learned to write.[2]

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