... was an Italian humanist and poet and is considered to be the first modern poet of the Italian Renaissance. Many historians consider him the "modern man" because of his innovative poems focusing on individuality. His use of the sonnet form of poetry influenced future English poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare. Petrarch believed that Italy should continue in the ... for her was intense, personal and pure. This type of feeling was new in European poetry. Sonnets are made up of 14-line verses usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes and are mostly dedicat...

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... Florentia (1510) by Francesco Albertini, who called it "a Crucifixion, that is a Trinity , with death at the foot", Vasari (1568) described it as Trinity with the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist" contemplating the crucified Christ", (TURNER, J. 1996) today it is simply known as "The Holy Trinity" So many different facets of art history teaching are ... arms. This pain is re-enforced by the mournful expression of his mother Mary, gazing out at the viewer as if to ask "what have you done?" St John the Evangelist stands to the right looking up at Jesus with adoration. Masaccio brought a...

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... and aesthetically pleasing aspects of man, "The Battle" reverts back to the distorted, unrealistic ways of capturing human beings. The painting is representative of its era however, in it's color scheme and perception of depth. "The Battle between Carnival and Lent" is an excellent example of the wonders that were created with the invention of oil paint. Filled with excellent shadowing ... and earth tones that bring the painting into the real world, the brown dominated color scheme of "The Battle" makes it representative of the Renaissance. The brown format also enhances the intense nat...

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... this startlingly original work. The Oxford English Dictionary defines utopia as "a place, state or condition ideally perfect in respect to the politics, laws, customs and conditions" or "an impossibly ideal scheme especially for social improvement." Although More was not the first to clarify what makes up an ideal society, he was the one to coin this word to describe it. It ... ...

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Comparing paintings of Raphael's Christ on the Cross with four saints and Salvador Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross. Comparison factors looked into are each individuals influences throughout their lives from their background where ... all became Dali's groundings of his emerging style. COMPARING RAPHAEL AND DALI (Through the paintings Christ on the Cross with four saints and Christ of St.John of the Cross) Raphael's Christ on the Cross with four Saints (Fig 5) shows Perugino's influence it was painted showing a composition similar to Perugino's crucifixion ... showing Raphael's attent...

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... equations in astronomy. As it was mentioned before, Euclid's Element as a mathematics book significantly helped Kepler to refine the theorem of Copernicus. Similarly, John Napier, a Scottish mathematician helped Kepler to refine his theory through mathematical method unintentionally. John Napier is famous for his discovery of logarithms. And the discovery of logarithms is also famous for helping Kepler. In the Biographical Encyclopedia of ... logarithms with base e was announced in 1614. The invention was of great assistance to Johannes Kepler, and made possible the rapid development of...

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... of his leadership aroused panic and eventually, the fall of the Holy Roman Empire. There was limited power of the king because King John argued with the Barons of the methods of ruling Europe, which led to King John signing of Magna Carta in 1215. This led to the start of a constitutional government and formation of a powerful parliament.2 Although the king's power ... ...

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... funeral art was produced for the powerful and wealthy, although the burials of ordinary people might include simple monuments and grave goods, usually from their possessions. The Tomb of Antipope John XXIII in Florence is a grand Early Renaissance wall tomb by Donatello and Michelozzo; although classical in style, it reflects the somewhat inharmonious stacking up of different elements typical of major ... ...

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... devotional emphasis with rising commercialism. Artists during this time started to concentrate on personal issues instead of religious displays. Poetry became another way of expression during this era. Poets like John Milton produced works that depicted morality, evil, and death. Johann Sebastian Bach and George F. Handel influenced the baroque period with oratorio musical designs depicting a scriptural narrative. The baroque period was ... ...

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... the Roman and Eastern Orthodox churches. The many activities that the Medici family arranged and hosted allowed for many a great people such as the emperor of Constantinople, the Pope and John VIII Paleologus to visit Florence and contribute to its success as a celebrated and distinguished city. After Cosimo's death his grandson Lorenzo de Medici also known as Lorenzo The Magnificent was ... ...

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... of Christian religious architecture based on Roman prototypes, was developed. Resident in Sicily were the Arabs who Paladino 2 introduced styles of oriental magnificence such as Palarmo's Palantine Chapel. According to John White in Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400, impressive central plans, lavish materials, sumptuous color, mysterious lighting, and stylized representation describe such works as Ravenna's San Vitale and St ... ...

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... to not only be a representation of a Greco-Roman myth, but also a representation of a "rebirth in God", specifically the baptism of Jesus, where Christ is emerging from the water, at shore John is waiting and the angels look on. The similarities are astonishing, but it is understandable that at the time religious sub-content is needed so that it is not suspected ... ...

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... history of the development of the arts shows that this has not often been the case. Great works of art were produced when affluent conditions did not exist. According to John Canneth Galbroath the ideas by which people of the developed part of the world interpret their existence were not forced in in the world of wealth. Rather they were the ... ...

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... . They were able to formulate the idea of self-improvement; the idea that in order to better yourself you did not need God. From this idea emerged Calvinism, created by John Calvin (a humanist scholar), which quickly gained support. Calvinism was a radical new abstraction and was immediately labeled as heresy by the Catholic Church. These new opinions about religion and god's power ... ...

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... fundamental in spreading an awareness of perspective and the new possibilities it enabled. An early example of the correct use of perspective is 'The holy trinity with the virgin, St. John and Donors' by Masaccio (c. 1425). It is difficult to appreciate the amazement with which this picture was received, as it seemed to create a doorway into the wall and a new burial ... ...

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