The earliest university to develop was in Italy at Salerno in the course of the ninth century. However, the university in Bologna was the first major university to arise. It was established by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in the mid-eleventh century. Medieval universities started as scholastic guilds, and developed on an analogy with the tradesmen's guilds and the later guilds of aliens in foreign cities which sprang up in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in most of the great European cities
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Olivia Perkins Museum Project 12/8/15 Art Appreciation 1301 – Egan SECTION 1: ELEMENTS OF ART & PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN 1. Line: Morris Louis, Rigel, Acrylic resin (magna) on canvas 2. Mass: Lynda Benglis, For Carl Andre, acrylic foam 3. Rhythm: Philip Guston, Wharf, oil on canvas 4. Value: Pablo Picasso, Femme Couchee Lisant, oil on canvas 5. Texture: Stephan Balkenhol, Four Figures, painted wood 6. Perspective: Martin Puryear, Ladder for Booker T. Washington, wood (ash and maple) 7. Nature: Thomas
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Then vs now! In this informative essay I will be sharing extraordinary information about the differences from the time period of Shakespeare and now. What was going on back in those days? How is it different from today's world? I will also be answering these questions in this short informative essay. Also about events that happen today and back in Shakespeare's world. The difference might surprise you. This paragraph is about the time of Elizabeth. The Renaissance was a time of reawakening or rebirth
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How can one ensure that he will make a great leader? According to Niccolo Machiavelli, he must “read histories and in them study the deeds of great men” (41). This phrase comes from Machiavelli’s “Qualities of the Prince,” a section from the book “A World of Ideas.” Niccolo Machiavelli was a very critical writer who lived from the year 1469 to 1527. One of his most famous works, The Prince, is still highly controversial today. This is mainly due to its cynical nature and disputed methods for successful
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agree with this viewpoint. I believe that Machiavelli doesn’t actually think the way he sounded in The Prince and was simply writing what needed to be written in order to gain favor with Lorenzo de' Medici, governor of Florence. In The Prince, Machiavelli writes to then ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de’ Medici. He essentially gives him a guide on how to rule his people. This way
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While Nicholas Machiavelli argues that fear gives a king more control, it is Thomas More who is more justified with his position that a king must prioritize the people over themselves, as they will be content with a benevolent ruler, prompting more stability. When discussing whether a powerless lower class is threatening to a king, More sarcastically questions “who quarrel more than beggars do? Who long for a change more earnestly than the dissatisfied?” (More). More utilizes rhetorical questions
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large cathedrals with barrel-vaults to support the ceilings of long corridors. Remaining modest on the outside, the churches had small rounded arches with a hint of stylized sculpture. Romanesque art drifted towards the right direction and their architecture set up the next artistic era. After Romanesque came Gothic art. Painting played a key role in the art of the past periods but no so here. Gothic art centered mainly on gorgeous stained-glass windows and ornate cathedrals. The cathedrals' outsides
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Born on the date of February 15, 1564 Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy to Giulia di Cosimo Ammannati and Vincenzo Galilei. Galileo's parents were not poor but at the same time they weren't rich. At the same time they weren't a rich family, they were still part of the noble Italian class. His father, Vincenzo, was a musician and his mother was the first of six children in her family. Galileo and two other siblings of his were the only three to survive infancy from his mother
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Born in what would become Italy, Giordano Bruno lived from 1548-1600, at the precipice of an era of novel scientific and religious thought. His writings encourage speculation about his true beliefs through an ambiguity of illusions to unapproved modes and allows the reader to infer much while preserving religious solidarity. Bruno studied a wide variety of religious thought, both traditional and unorthodox, as well as many pagan, esoteric, scientific and pseudo-scientific genres. Through his concept
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The Renaissance had brought many new changes in culture and inventions throughout Europe. The Renaissance was so important and influential that many other countries based their revivals off of it. During the Renaissance, art, literature, and science were furthered and were bettered as well. These factors had caused the Renaissance to flourish not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, causing other countries to further themselves. This caused Europe to enter a period of peace, stability, and growth
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