The Italian Renaissance was influenced by many cross-cultural influences resulting from political conflicts and alliances between Italian city-states and from other influencing countries such as Spain and France. ... Italian Weavers produced elaborate brocades, velvets and other decorated textiles. ... There are very clear differences within costume styles between the Northern and Italian Renaissance. ... Men's Garments - Italian Renaissance Men's styles of dress within the first half of the Italian Renaissance developed very little from the late Middle Ages. ... Women's Garme...

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The principal is known as the Carolingian Renaissance, supposed to perceive the blossoming of adapting under the rule of Charlemagne (ruled 768 "814). ... It was in this environment at Avignon that Petrarch (1304 "1374), the father of Italian humanism, initially looked into and advanced established learning. ... The recovery of Greek learning was supported by becoming contact between the Greek and Latin holy places at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438 "1445 furthermore by the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, after which Greek émigrés escaping the ...

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This intonation is not well suited for Renaissance music as only the octaves are in perfect intonation, and vocal renaissance music was especially noted for its perfect fourths and fifths (Norton 158). ... The Renaissance had many iconic composers such as John Dunstable (1390-1453). ... Du Fay drew on French and Italian styles; some of this can be seen in his smooth vocal melodies, melismas, and meter changes that were similar to that of the ritornello in the Italian Madrigal. ... Text was largely important in both the Renaissance and Baroque periods but the manner in which they were used var...

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The portrayal of women as passive and quiet within Renaissance literature did not stray far from the image of the Renaissance woman in created works of art. ... Domenico di Tommaso di Currado di Doffo Bigordi, an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence and student of Michelangelo, painted a portrait called Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni. ... Renaissance literature typically characterized women as submissive and quiet. ... As the statue comes to life, the active Hermione becomes a "real being, " proposing that women in Renaissance society were not born passive and quiet, but made to be that ...

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Our first destination was Rome (Italy). Italy is situated in Europe and attached in the north to the European mainland. ... The Italians seemed like very friendly people. ... On our way to Paris, we learned (from the announcements made on the train) that France is the land of mysterious prehistoric caves and Celtic monoliths, Roman ruins, medieval fortresses and Renaissance castles. ... It seemed to me that the Italians were much more friendlier and pleasant to talk to. ...

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The post war years rendered difficult for Italians, whose society took a big hit as Mussolini's government collapsed. ... Filmmakers took this advice and began to take necessary steps in order to create a natural and original style for Italy. ... In Italian neorealism, the brilliant use of nonprofessional actors by Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni allowed viewers to see a natural essence occurring in an authentic environment. ... All of these components signify freedom as a filmmaker and exemplifies his establishment as an auteur in the progression of the Second Italian Film Re...

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Machiavelli: The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli was born into a time of political upheaval in Italy. At the time of his birth to a wealthy Florentine lawyer in 1469, the Medici family had been ruling Italy for 35 years. The political life in Italy was characterized by instability, fear, and invasion as the small states of Italy were pulled into the wars and politics of Europe by the larger, more powerful states of France and Spain. ... He didn't become involved in Italian politics until 1498, whoever, when a second Republic was set up under Soderini. ... Before the initial attempts at a ...

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Italy was the birthplace of this movement and development. The Renaissance architecture was quite related to a worldview sustained during that period on two pillars: classicism and humanism. ... The Renaissance brought a change in monarchies, which began to acquire more and more power, take responsibility for the welfare of the whole society. ... Renaissance man conceives life as a stage to be enjoyed before death comes. The Renaissance ideal of man is the courtier: military man and man of letters. ...

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The Church held its power throughout the Renaissance but with great power comes great responsibility and some fell victim to greed. ... (Spark - Italian Renaissance 1). ... The art that was produced during the Renaissance did not challenge the Christian faith so it was embraced. But, the higher Renaissance gave rise to new inquiries in reference to the physical world. ... During the Renaissance there was a tremendous focus on the beauty of nature and this led curiosity of how nature works. ...

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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to artists have pondered the mysterious relationship between number and form. This relationship is captured in many ancient works of art such as the Parthenon of Greece, the Pyramids, and also in more recent works like Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Mathematical proportions have been conveyed in many forms of art, architecture, music, and nature that bring beauty, order and mystery to people and cultures everywhere. Looking into the past, through the millennia, we can see the use of these proportions and ratios emerge. The use of mathemat...

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Jacob had studied in Italy, a luxury available to only a select few of the aspiring artists of the day. ... Lastman, like Jacob van Swanenburgh, had studied in Italy. However, unlike, van Swanenburgh, Lastman benefited from his Italian studies. ... Rembrandt response was that travelling to Italy was a waste of time and too much trouble, since the best Italian pictures could be conveniently and thoroughly studied in Dutch collections. Through the years Rembrandt studied many of the fine Italian works that were in these Dutch collections and later in life possessed several Italian pictures and ...

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The Baroque rapidly developed into two separate forms; the strongly Roman Catholic countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Flanders, Bohemia, Southern Germany, Poland and Austria) tended toward freer and more active architectural forms and surfaces ; in Protestant regions (England, Netherlands, Northern Europe) architecture was more restrained and developed a sober, quiet monumentality impressive in its refinement. ... In painting and sculpture this was achieved by means of highly developed naturalistic illusionism, usually heightened by dramatic lighting effects, creating an unequaled sense of the...

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The Napoleonic Empire came into existence following the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France at Notre Dame in 1804. The frontiers of the ancien regime had been expanded up to and beyond France's natural borders, with the momentum of expansion following in direct correlation with the...

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Pompeii lay on a plateau of ancient lava near the Bay of Naples in western Italy in a region called Campania, less than 1.6 kilometers from the foot of Mount Vesuvius. ... In 1748, a farmer discovered a wall and the authorities in Italy began a series of excavations. ... The Italian government has provided funding money for this project. ... The technique used in these walls differed considerably from that used in Renaissance frescoes. ...

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Some of these significant events are the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Pope crowning Charlemagne, the Enlightenment, the Italian Renaissance, and the Black Death, an extremely fierce plague which swept across Europe and some parts of Asia in the mid-fourteenth century. ... The plague had spread through the East and in Italy in 1348. ... By the end of the next year the plague had reached as far as Norway, Scotland, Prussia, Iceland, and Italy. ... In less than four years the disease carved a path of death through Asia, Italy, France, North Africa, Spain and Normandy, made its way over t...

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He had a strong dislike for the previous Italian princes. The fact Machiaveli has taken the time to write this book leads me to believe that Italy was in desperate times. ... Machiavelli's prince goes against the whole renaissance man perspective and travels along the line of an individual whose only "talent" is to ensure the stability of the state that he governs. ... One of the most controversial of this group is Niccolo Machiavelli, who was a 15th century Italian from Florence. ... Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy at a time when the country was in political upheaval. ...

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti * The Italian millionaire poet and writer, Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti (later called Filippo Tommaso), was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1876 the second son of a rich and successful lawyer, Enrico Marinetti. ... By 1900 he had decided to devote himself entirely to Italian and French literature and poetry. ...

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The music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods was transitioning toward more full-bodied compositions with complex instrumentation. ... Advertisement - Continue reading below Budding Young Composer In December, 1769, Wolfgang, then age 13, and his father departed from Salzburg for Italy, leaving his mother and sister at home. ... The Italian outing was longer than the others (1769-1771) as Leopold wanted to display his son's abilities as a performer and composer to as many new audiences as possible. ... Other commissions followed and in subsequent trips to Italy, Wolfgang wrote two othe...

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By itself this "Nova" may have signaled a "Nova" approach to how the heavens were viewed and Galileo may have been one of the stars of this era in triggering the explosion of investigation and philosophical teaching known as the Renaissance. ... It must be kept in mind that the Roman Catholic Church in Italy throughout this period was on the defense in response to the Protestant threat and in many ways attempted to squelch and extinguish through different means any threat to its authority. The most dangerous sources were the developing ideas and theories throughout Europe and Italy itself that...

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Seneca who was Roman, basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. ... For the dramatists of Renaissance Italy, France and England, classical tragedy meant only the ten Latin plays of Seneca and not Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles. ...

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The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy Historians and scholars since the time of the Renaissance have questioned the authorship of Shakespeare's works. ... It is also necessary that the author be fluent, or at least familiar, in many languages, such as French, Italian, Latin and Greek. ... Some examples of this are Hamlet, which was taken from the French Histoires Tragiques; the French dialogue contained in Henry V; Othello, which was based on the 3 Italian Hecatommithi; and both The Rape of Lucrece and The Comedy of Errors had not been translated into English at this point in time...

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VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure. ...

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The report will also outline how the environment of word Ethics will be created, and what emotion will this work exude to the audiences viewing it. 1.3 Method It is not known much about the artist's life or where his unique style has originated from during the Renaissance Period. ... It is believed that Bosch would have viewed them in perhaps the works of Italian Renaissance painters. ...

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In the first half of the 16th century, Western Europe experienced a wide range of social, artistic and geographically political changes that created conflict within the Holy Roman Empire. This conflict is called the Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement that gave birth to Prote...

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Brazil is a very complex and interesting country. Not only is it, the largest nation in Latin America but in addition it is the most varied in geography, climate, population and culture (Rist 1). The people of Brazil are from many different backgrounds due to it being colonised by the Europeans and ...

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