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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The Volatile Cycle of Corruption and Revenge The Renaissance was a time period with drastic change, not only in art but in the way that society thought about the world. The spread of humanism throughout Europe allowed people to question the ethics of their society, as curiosity was encouraged. William Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era, and he noted things about society that he emphasized in his plays. While it was illegal, revenge occurred frequently, as did corruption (as exemplified by
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Massimo Vignelli is most recognized for his New York City subway map from 1972. While a lot of graphic designers appreciated the map because it was visually appealing, most people from the city criticized his work because it didn't show the city's beauty. However, Vignelli wasn't paid to show the tourist where the city's breathtaking views or its parks were, which it was what most people were mad about, that he did not take the time to indicate to a dot where Central Park was, to give an example
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The exact dates of the Middle Ages are misleading, Historians place the beginning of the period between the death of the Roman emperor Theodosius I in 395 and the fall of Rome to the Goths in 410. Also known as The Dark Ages, the term may be more a judgment than an actual period of history, because of the lack of available sources that could be used evaluate the period were lost or destroyed due to years of war and insurrection. After the fall of Rome in 410, life changed dramatically. The aqueducts
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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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After the Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the late 17th century which promotes focus on reason and individualism, political and social reexamination become more and more present in the art. The new paradigm occurs in The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) by Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault, an oil painting created in 1818 and 1819. Although the formal differences between Romantic and Modern artworks, Yellow Harbor (Gelben Hafen) by Paul Klee, a watercolor and transferred
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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. Art is considered the most important part of the Renaissance. Many artists were able to further their skills
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"Do ut des" - a motto of pre christian Roman religion, meaning "I give so that you might give". (from the website Ten Ton Hammer proverbs and quotes.) The lasting Legacy of Rome is not Christianity despite the popular belief. Christianity would not be the Lasting Legacy of Rome because it would have spread without the Romans help. The lasting legacy of Rome is the architecture, city additions, the use of art, colosseum, technology, language, and Western democracy that the Romans invented. In the
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Commedia Dell’arte is a form of comedic theatre originating in Italy in the 16th century (Wilson, 2010). This form of theatre was first established as a street performance in the Italian Renaissance, providing a comic release to the people in the market places. “This colourful and extremely theatrical art form is based on the interaction of traditional stock characters in improvised scenarios that facilitate a comic plot to arrive at a humorous climax (Shane Arts, n.d.).” 20 Lazzi’s in a Hat successfully
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I am going to be analyzing Rene Girard’s ideas from Violence and the Sacred on mimesis and how it inevitably leads to conflict. I will examine and assess how and why Girard believes these subject-model relationships start and why they will eventually never work. We, as subjects, look to models who appear to have success and mimic them, while both going for the same object thus leading to conflict between both parties. I will now look at a passage focusing on Rene Girard’s ideas from his book Violence
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