History of Italian Fashion The culture of the prominent country Italy can be seen through its food, music, cinema, and especially fashion. Italy is one of the biggest fashion powerhouses in the world to date. With designers such as Gucci, Giorgio Armani, Dolce and Gabbana, Ferragamo, Fendi, Prada, and Versace, it is no wonder why Italy is a global hot spot for high quality apparel. However, Italy wasn’t always the fashion icon that it is today. At a point in time Italy took a back
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is a Italian artist who came about during the Renaissance. He sculpted, painted, and created many influential forms of art during his time. Michelangelo was a great artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A lot of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. Although the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are probably the best known
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plainly referring to the Prince. Machiavelli states in the Prince “a prince will be fortunate who adjusts his behaviour to the temper of the times .” He repeats this opinion in the Discourses as well.This shows that he gave vent to the humors of Florence as it changed Government from the Medici to Republic in 1498 and back to the Medici Rule again in 1512...and thus kept with the
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Kathleen Talentino Professor Dr. Duff Sutherland HIST 106 December 4, 2006 Research Essay The Honest Courtesan during the Italian Renaissance The honest courtesan, also known as “cortigiana oneste” in Italy, contributed to the development of the intellectual and cultural revolution of the Italian Renaissance. This was during a time which the status of women struggled against that of their male counterparts. During this revolution, upper class women had less power politically and
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Giotto and Giovanni Scrovegni Chapel The Chapel was commissioned by Enrico Scovegni; his family fortune was through the practice of usury, (which meant the charging of interest when loaning money; a sin so grave resulted in exclusion from the Christian sacraments). Enrico’s father, Reginald was an erroneous case; he appears in the “Dante’s Inferno as the pro-typical user). Scrovegni called for two of the most famous artists of that time period, Giotto and Giovanni Pisano. Their talents and skill
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Machiavelli’s Advice to Princes on Gaining and Keeping Power in his ‘The Prince’ Machiavelli collected The Prince as a realistic show for decree. This target is apparent from the very start, the devotion of the volume to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the leader of Florence. This book is not mainly hypothetical or conceptual; its writing style is straightforward and its reason simple. This personality highlights Machiavelli’s wish to offer realistic, effortlessly comprehensible advice. All princes have to build on tough
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The renaissance or rebirth was considered a bridge between the middle ages and modern history. Alot of famous people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Masaccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Raphael, Michelangelo, shaped todays modern art, science, architecture, music, sculptures, and math. The renaissance lasted from the 14th century to the 17th century. In that period of time the world as we know it was defined and shaped. Leonardo
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Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici eventually disobeys that order, which is why he will later be reverently known as Cosimo pater patriae, father of his country. His dates are 1389 to 1464 which makes him the longest lived of our five wealthy men. Having survived brief imprisonment and exile, Cosimo takes the Medici bank to its maximum extension and profitability and moves decisively into politics to the point of more or less running the Florentine Republic. He is a friend to philosophers, architects
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Such as the painting of La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli created in 1478 in Florence. In the picture there is a depiction of Venus. The clothing that the painter has decided to place Venus in relates and gives the viewer a since or connection to the Virgin Mary. Venus is surrounded by dancing pregnant women, showing that she is
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Lindsey Foster June 9, 2011 Mrs. Colao Period E CCA A Dinner to Remember My dinner party will be hosted in Calitri, Italy. I chose Calitri, Italy because it was named after one of my ancestors. My dinner party will be on top of an old castle while watching the sunset. At the table, along with myself, I will have Elizabeth I, Socrates, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, and Leonardo Da Vinci. We will be seated at a round table so that everyone can be facing each other, and it will be during
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