The Italian writer and poet, Niccolo Machiavelli, wrote a world famous book titled The Prince, which gave suggestions on how a proper ruler should lead his country. If Machiavelli was the ruler of Italy during the fifteenth century, he would have defended his country and restored the success and power they once had. Machiavelli became a politician at Florence in 1498, which was four years after the Medici family had been expelled from the city. Machiavelli loved politics, and was always traveling between Italy, Germany, and France. However, with the French defeat and Spanish victory over Florence in 1512, Machiavelli was sent into exile.
While he was recovering from all of this, he began writing the small body of political writings that protected his literary immorality. He completed this between 1513 and 1517 “Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius”. By 1518 Machiavelli turned from discursive prose to drama in La mandragola (Mandragola). This play was popular with audiences throughout much of Italy for several years. Niccolos next effort was , a military treatise published in 1521 and entitled Libro della arte della Guerra (The Art of War).
Some of the most important collection of Renaissance painting would be that of Federico da Montefeltro who helped Urbino flourish in art and culture and commissioned perhaps the largest library in Italy with the paintings in Monefelto's court displaying the first theoretical treatise on perspective. Ludovico Gonzago strongly promoted Mantua for its art and culture he had the church of Sant Andrea rebuilt by Alberti who displayed religion and architectural with a combination of three ancient roman forms temple front, triumphal arch and basilica. The Medici family played a huge role in discovering the great artist of the 15th century. Giovanni de'Medici
The famous Santa Maria del Fiore (or “Duomo of Florence”), by Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi, conveys the humanistic concept of reviving the past because the shapes, columns, and proportion of the Duomo were all in imitation of ancient Roman architecture. In all areas of art, the ideas of the Renaissance were expressed
The author goes to describe the building boom of the 1300s, the arrival of the Black Plague, and the war against “the new duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti” (King 120). While all these events did directly affect Brunelleschi’s life, from building the dome to falling ill to the plague and to assisting the army during the war, King’s inclusion of this information gives the reader a biography of Florence, not just of Brunelleschi. For a young reader like myself, the construction of a dome may at first come off as unimportant. However, after reading Brunelleschi’s Dome and seeing just how many obstacles were overcome to complete the dome, one can see that this
The movie start with Friar Diego holding the bible and waiting to die. He keep saying he wants to be free. After Friar Diego death, the story begins. It’s start in May 1520, The Temple grounds are covered with bodies slaughtered by the Spanish Armies who arrival in the vast Mexican Empire just after famous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Mexico. The only survival is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin.
Artists such as Michelangelo, who received generous commissions from Pope Julius II, created such splendid, ethereal, and religious works as David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as a way to impress and captivate followers of the Catholic Church (and, undoubtedly, as a means to intimidate followers of the Protestant Reformation). At the same time, there was a sense of discovery in the Renaissance, and a newfound love of the classical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The humanist program of study could typically only be afforded by aristocrats and the rising merchant class, and, as these people sought to boast of their might through the commission of art (the Medicis of Florence are well-known for this clever tactic), we have works such as School of Athens by Raphael, which depicts a beautiful blend of Christian subject and classical ideals. In the late 1800s, however, there was a sense of disillusionment with the increasingly industrialized world. Whilst Renaissance painters sought to create a "window into the world", artists of the late 19th century began to attempt to have their viewers
In 1485 he furthered his studies at the most important centre of Scholastic philosophy and theology, the University of Paris, as he astonished fellow scholars with his precocious learning. He created strong bonds with Lorenzo de Medici and Marsilio Ficino and remained under Lorenzo’s protection as he managed to impress them both with his philosophical ideas. Pico was one of the first to resurrect the humanism of ancient Greek philosophy. During his time there were many changes, events, and many movements that occurred that profoundly affected European society. The defining change of the Renaissance was humanism, a literary movement that began in Italy during the fourteenth century.
Romanus, prepared with the tools needed for an exorcism, tamed the dragon by making the sign of the cross. He led the dragon to the village on a leash made from his own priestly clothes and burned the dragon at the stake. The head and neck were cut off and mounted on the town wall. This is how becoming the gargoyle began appearing around France and Britain. La Gargouille(French for gargoyle) was carved in stone to commemorate the
The first public opera house opened in Venice, Italy in 1637, and by the eighteenth century public doors began charging the public for admission into these opera houses. Not all productions of opera and oratorio were successful. In fact, arson became a big problem during the Baroque Era in attempt to recoup losses and even investors were known to set fire to opera houses to collect insurance money. Some other opera composers of the Baroque Era include: Jacopo Peri (1561–1633). A Florentine who composed both the first opera ever, Dafne in 1598, and the first surviving opera, Euridice.