Interpreting the Risorgimento: Blasetti's "1860" and the Legacy of Motherly Love Author(s): Gabriella Romani Source: Italica, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 391-404 Published by: American Association of Teachers of Italian Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3656100 . Accessed: 22/09/2013 08:43 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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John Smith October 29, 2015 ART 1300-C Mrs. Issacson “The School Of Athens” As one of the renowned great master of the High Renaissance era, Raphael Sanzio da Urbino is best known for his work pertaining to the “School of Athens”. The Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance period, is highly respected for his work. His work was primarily admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplantonic ideal of human grandeur. Raphael was the youngest
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detail, as well as a devotion to the five orders of architecture; Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. The second book included diagrams and drawings of palaces and mansions of Palladio’s own design, those located in the area of Veneto, Italy. The third book included information concerning bridges, streets, piazzas and basilica design of mostly Roman origin, tying in with the fourth and final book, which Palladio used for reproductions of ancient roman temples such as the Pantheon. Palladio
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firenza and landini Italian arts nova EditWatch this page Johannes Ciconia Ciconia's music is an eclectic blend of styles. Pieces typical of northern Italy, such as his madrigal Una panthera, appear with pieces steeped in the French ars nova. The more complex ars subtilior style surfaces in Sus un fontayne. While it remains late medieval in style, his writing increasingly points toward the melodic patterning of the Renaissance, for instance in his setting of O rosa bella. He wrote music both secular
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Pauline Ford 18 July, 2017 Art Appreciation- Professor Richard White 1pm Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th-century Spain. Murillo was the first and only Spanish painter to be extensively well known throughout Europe in his era. Murillo studied under a relative of his where he discovered his passion towards realism. Later on Murillo was exposed to the Flemish and the Venetian style of Baroque art. His art went from the more
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he church. Within Italy great advances in many different fields of science occurred in the Renaissance, regarding dissections, the practice of medicine and the study of anatomy Park like the people of the Renaissance looks back to Greco-Roman knowledge of the topics. In the second and third chapters of her book titled, Secrets of Women and The Mother’s Part, Park uses Latin text De secretis mulierum, and informs the reader on the interest of the powerful Italian families, such as the Sforza family
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The time of the Renaissance, a period filled with growth of intellect, beauty of nature, the dignity of mankind, and the rising of artists. A representation of the Renaissance is the move from the move of scholasticism, a devotion specifically for the theological and philosophical teachings of the Church, to humanism, a devotion to the humanities of rhetoric, arithmetic, and other subjects. An example of this movement, as seen in Machiavelli’s The Prince, which describes Niccolo Machiavelli’s ideal
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Charles John Noke Throughout Charles Vyse’s apprenticeship, Charles John Noke (1860-1941) was Art Director of Doulton & Co, Burslem. Born in Worcester, Noke was the son of a connoisseur, collector, and dealer in antiques. Through his father’s friends in the nearby Worcester factory, he became familiar with pottery making from direct experience. At the age of fifteen he convinced his father that his future lay as a modeller in the pottery industry. In 1875, he gained an apprenticeship at the Worcester
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Throughout history there have been all sorts of representations of women some were beautiful paintings, pictures, stone marvels and many others were ideas or various types of portrayals. How exactly has the idea or portrayal of women changed throughout history? How did history first really begin to see women, and what are the most recent results in art revolving around women. Some of the most extravagant works began with Kore from Chios, c. 520 BCE. a beautifully crafted work of marble with beautiful
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In chapter 3.7 we see the famous Hall of Mirrors. In King Louis XI’s palace of Versailles there is a large chamber filled with mirrors that reflect the gardens outside. King Louis IX hired many artists to decorate his large palace. The Hall of Mirrors is used for celebrations, greetings of dignitaries, and balls. The gardens that are reflected by the mirrors surround 2,000 acres of the palace. It is filled with 200,000 trees, 210,000 flowers, and 2,100 sculptures. Versailles is located outside of
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