Before the Renaissance, Italy was one of the European countries with a strong and an organized government. ... Florence, where the Italian Renaissance began, was an independent republic. ... When the Renaissance first came to Italy, medieval times were just coming to an end. ... ("Italian Renaissance - Facts & Summary.") ... Some regions of Italy overcame demolition from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. ...

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Italy was the first city to discover the Renaissance and the North soon followed. ... Both the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance had a common faith, until the Reformation of the North. ... Humanism and antiquity were major focusses in the Italian Renaissance. ... Art in Italian Renaissance was one of a kind. ... Northern Renaissance Literature was not much different than Italy. ...

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The movement started out in Italy and spread to England, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries. ... The fact that the cities Italy, so strategically located between the Levant and Western Europe, were the oldest and wealthiest of the towns and helps to account for the leadership of Italy in the Renaissance. Riches started to build up by the merchants of these Italian cities and a host of lesser places made Italy's political and cultural achievements possible. ... This was the split between French and Italian factions in the Curia. ... Preachers of repentance had ...

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The renaissance began in Italy spreading and influencing other parts of Europe, reaching England by about 1500. People looked towards Italy as the centre of new learning. ... The Renaissance began in northern and central Italy. ... The citizens of Northern Italy were very proud of their city states. ... Renaissance sculpture went a step further! ...

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Renaissance Assignment A few definitions: Humanism - http://www.dictionary.com/search?... Because Bottecelli was part of Bottecelli lived in Florence, like most of the famous artists and sculptors of the Renaissance, which inspired a jealousy in other Italian city-states, especially Venice. ... In all aspects da Vinci is considered the ultimate Renaissance Man. ... Michelangelo Michelangelo was, like Da Vinci, considered the ideal "Renaissance Man". ... Galileo Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564. ...

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"Renaissance" is a French word meaning "rebirth" (Britannica 1). ... The word "renaissance" originally referred to the revival of the values and artistic styles of classical antiquity during that period, especially in Italy (Beckett, 1994, 36). ... Vasari claimed "art had been reborn in Italy in about 1250 and had progressed through "childhood" and "youth" to its 16th century maturity" (Britannica 7). ... The technique of realism, where people are portrayed realistically, is a renaissance revelation that can be seen in many Renaissance artists" work. ... "He is considered one of the most ...

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Renaissance Paper The period of the renaissance existed between the years of 1485 and 1660. ... Savonarola was sent out by the monks to preach everywhere in italy. ... Disaster did come In 1494, charles VIII of france invaded italy. ... (Helden P.7) Royalty in the Renaissance was treated with great respect. ... Shakespreare was the probably the best writer in the Renaissance. ...

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Harlem Renaissance From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... Du Bois, editor of The Crisis magazine, all contributed to the particular styles and unprecedented success of black artists during the Harlem Renaissance period. Some major figures that played a very important part in the Harlem Renaissance are Billie H...

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The Renaissance Era and it's Artists The time known as the Renaissance brought about many changes in the art world. ... First, let's define the word Renaissance. ... The Renaissance was a great cultural movement or "rebirth" that began in Italy during the 14th century. It spread from Italy, it's "root", to France, Germany, England and Spain. ... His most famous works range from the David in Florence, to the Pieta in Rome and the Sistine Chapel in Italy. ...

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His views and ideas of the natural world left a significant impact on young Giotto, a young Italian painter. ... The statue of Mary Magdalen is a great example of early Italian Renaissance art. ... Another great symbol of the early Italian Renaissance of art are the east doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni created by Ghiberti. ...

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Italy, and specifically Florence, is said to have been the birthplace of humanistic thinking and the Renaissance for a variety of reasons. ... Many pre Renaissance and Renaissance individuals felt torn between the pious teachings of the church and the earthly pleasures which wealth and independence brought. ... He is often referred to as "the Father of the Renaissance." ... This, later in life, would dominate his writing in which his sonnets, written in vernacular Italian, would help define Italian as an accepted language. ... Petrarch Urged others to do the same and wealthy Italians all ...

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Italy is probably the most diverse nation in the world. ... Italian Studies is the study of this diversity. ... It can entail pretty much anything within, from, or about Italy. ... The next author to give me an insight on Italy was Dante". ... Italy became a republic in 1946, and the king was exiled. ...

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The Renaissance period occurred in Northern Europe and Italy in the 1500s and 1600s. Renaissance means "rebirth." ... Some artists of the late Renaissance painted their subjects with distorted and elongated bodies. ... Michelangelo and Raphel are two more of the many artists in this period that made great contributions to art during the Renaissance. ...

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Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... The great Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto wrote succinctly of this famous artist: "Michael more than mortal, divine angel."" ... Two generations of Italian painters and sculptors were impressed by his treatment of the human figure: Raphael, Annibale Carracci, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Titian. In conclusion, Michelangelo (1475-1564), was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history...

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Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... The great Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto wrote succinctly of this famous artist: "Michael more than mortal, divine angel."" ... In conclusion, Michelangelo (1475-1564), was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. ... While Christ stands in the center of the in Florence, Italy, but was later moved to the Galleria fresco meting out justice, the...

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Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... The great Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto wrote succinctly of this famous artist: "Michael more than mortal, divine angel." ... Two generations of Italian painters and sculptors were impressed by his treatment of the human figure: Raphael, Annibale Carracci, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Titian. In conclusion, Michelangelo (1475-1564), was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leon...

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He in all ways completes the "renaissance man". Dante was born in Florence, Italy in 1265, at a time when Italy was going through their Renaissance. Italy was divided into a group of city states which had a balance of power within themselves but also wanted to expand. ... Dante wrote the poem for his colleagues and therefore wrote it in vernacular which was Italian. ... Francis Petrarch was a Renaissance writer and scholar who wrote The Assent of Mount Ventoux in 1336. ...

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The Plaza Hotel was designed in a Neo-classical style with Italian Renaissance detailing modeled after the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York, The Biltmore in Atlanta, and the Hotel Winton in Cleveland. ... The Plaza Hotel was done in Finger's early years and was one of his last works done in the Italian Renaissance style. ... Also next to the living room was a music room walled with mahogany and white enameled woodwork in a French Renaissance style.The library, located behind the music room was finished in the same style except with a paneled beam ceiling. ...

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Van Veen was also a member of the Romanists, a group of Flemish painters who studied in Italy. This group brought the influences of Renaissance painters such as Michelangelo and Raphael into their paintings. ... Then, they traveled to Mantua where Rubens was hired to re-create copies of Renaissance paintings. ... Rubens influence spread to Italy into the High and Late Baroque paintings and in Spain upon Velazquez. During his life, he achieved so much that he was said to embody the Baroque fulfillment of a Renaissance man. ...

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In the Italian and English Renaissances, technology was very new. In the late 14th century, Italian engineers began to design innovative equipment for spectacles produced in the churches. ... Italian stage machinery developed into elaborate objects. ... Inigo Jones, an English renaissance man, presented the Italian idea of perspective scenery to the English theatre in the 17th century. During years abroad studying in various countries, Jones visited Italy before returning to his native country of England. ...

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Gothic Art Gothic Art is the style of art produced in Europe from the middle ages up to the beginning of the Renaissance. ... In the late 14th century, anticipating the Renaissance, Gothic Art evolved toward a more secular style known as International Gothic. Although superseded by Renaissance art, there was a Gothic Revival in the 18th and 19th centuries, which was largely rooted in nostalgia. ... One of Giotto's best known works is Christ Entering Jerusalem 1304-1306 Fresco.Capella degli Scrovegni, Padua, It...

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He also said that Michelangelo was a renaissance man, as he was a great sculptor, painter and architect that ever lived. ... El Greco did like Michelangelo, after all he was under his wing for a while when he was in Italy. ... Michelangelo's artistic background was from the humanism of the Italian Renaissance while El Greco's style of art came from the Byzantine and Venetian background that he had. ... Michelangelo was born March 6, 1474 during the Late Renaissance in Florence, Italy. ... The High Renaissance, which Michelangelo studied in, was a very creative time; people were obses...

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Maya Angelou is the ultimate Renaissance woman and is one of the great voices of contemporary literature (mayaangelou.com). ... She fist taught dance in Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv and then at the Rome Opera House in Rome, Italy. ... She received the Yale University Fellowship and was named the Rockefeller Foundation Scholar in Italy. ... As stated in my introduction, Angelou is a true Renaissance woman, rebirthing herself from on awkward little girl brought up in segregation, and evolving into what I think to be one of the most beautiful, fascinating, intelligent women of all time. ...

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As all Renaissance artists, Botticelli did his share of religious works. ... Botticelli used the halo to "display his exquisite brushwork in a delicate mesh of gold (Renaissance 116). ... The Uffizi in Florence houses the world's greatest collection of Italian paintings. It is said that "even in competition with a galaxy of masterpieces it is usually the room containing Primavera and The Birth of Venus that is the most crowded in the museum(Renaissance 117). ...

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The idea of an object being a "work of art" was not considered until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy. (Witcombe, 4) First used during the Renaissance, the word "art" was a collective term for sculpture, painting, and architecture. ... (Witcombe, 10) Largely, the new modern artists rejected the standards and principles of the academies and the Renaissance traditions. ... (Witcombe, 11) This statement was in ironic mockery of the Renaissance tradition which had placed the artist in a dignified position. ...

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