John Donne the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. noted for their strong, sensual style and includesonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic
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was born near Val di Greve, the year of 1485. His parents are Piero Andrea di Bernardo da Verrazzano, and Fiammetta Cappelli. Giovanni da Verrazzano had one sibling which is Girolamo da Verrazzano. As a young boy, Giovanni Da Verrazzano studied in Florence, Italy, and was well-educated and excelled in math. Around 1506 Giovanni da Verrazzano began pursuing his maritime career. Giovanni also discovered New York Harbor, in 1528, which now has a bridge spanning it named after Giovanni da Verrazzano.
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universal approval when it was first dis played in Florence, Italy, in 1504. The thing that contemporary viewers find objectionable about each work was the plaza where public political meetings took place on a raised platform called the arringhiera from which the English word “harangue” derives). Its political context, in other words, was clear. It represented David’s triumph over the tyrant Goliath and was meant to symbolize Republican Florence the city’s freedom from foreign and papal domination
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provoked a new naturalism, which encapsulated a desire to observe the natural world (Kleiner, 2010). This would be the start of naturalism, leading to humanism, which would ultimately birth the Renaissance. Giotto Di Bondone, was born in 1266 in Florence, Italy. He was a student of Cimabue's and managed to catapult the world into a new exciting time for artistic impression. He broke free from the gothic, byzantine art that dominated the times and managed to not only bring in a new perspective on
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Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452 in the town of Vinci near Florence Italy. He kept the name of his town for his last name. He lived during the fifteenth century, a period when the people of Europe were becoming interested in art. This period of time was known as the Renaissance period. Leonardo Da Vinci was very talented. He was a great artist, but he became famous because he was able to do so many other things. He was an architect, a musician, inventor, sculptor, scientist, and mathematician
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Renaissance The first important painter of the Renaissance was Giotto di Bondone In 1334, Giotto was appointed chief architect in Florence, where he remained until his death in 133Therefore, as the city-states of Italy began to develop great wealth during the early fifteenth century, architects and sculptors rose to fame and power. In 1401, Florence held a competition to choose the artist to design and sculpt a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistry, a church honoring St. Paul the Baptist. The
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Niccolo Machiavelli lived in Florence, Italy in the 1400’s. The country of Italy was divided into city-states that had their own leaders, but all pledged alliance to their king. In time in which great leaders were needed in order to help the development of a city-state and country, Machiavelli had a theory that man needed a leader to control them. In his book The Prince, he speaks of the perfect leader. I believe that man, by nature, is neither good nor evil. When a child comes out of its mother
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mainly sung 2. Opera _____ B. fool the eye in French; illusion of depth or shape 3. Humanism_____ C. leading family of Milan during the Renaissance 4. Trompe l’oiel _____ D. leading family of Florence during the Renaissance 5. sfumato _____ E. Harem girl 6. chiaroscuro____ F. in a dark manner (Caravaggio made famous) 7. perspective_____ G. upholds justice, human reason and ethics 8. fresco
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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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by the Medici family of Florence, Lorenzo di Pierfrencesco de Medici to be specific (Italian-renaissance-art.com, 2013). The painting portrays the birth of the goddess Venus, emerging from the sea as a fully grown women and being afloat on a seashell. The painting also shows a couple symbolizing the wing blowing her towards the shore. Venus is also seen to be greeted by a woman who seems to represent the spring. The painting is now displayed in Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The Feast of the
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