... public and pride to support artists . The following paragraphs will take a look at humanism from the beginning in Italy and then patronage during the Italian Renaissance. The father of humanism, Francesco Petrarch, helped spread humanism. Petrarch admired the writing of the Roman philosopher Cicero . He had a love for language. He studied forgotten classical manuscripts and reintroduced the ideas of ancient writers ... ...

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... Cosimo de' Medici for whom he built The Uffizi, the goverment offices. He painted frescos in the Chancellery Palace, in the Palazzo Vecchio, in the Sixteenth Century Salon and in Francesco I's appartments. As a painter,his work affected kind of mannerism. Vasari was one of the most prolific decorators of his period, although today not highly regarded. His own house in Arezzo ... ...

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... the most famous paintings in all of historyy was created during this period: the portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting is of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape. Leonardo used remarkable sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded ... ...

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... best paintings ever done. Some of the great artist and sculptures emerging during this time were Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Ludovico Cardi, Carlo Saranceni, Guido Reni, Domenico Zampieri, Giovanni Lanfranco, Giovanni Francesco, Pietro Da Cortona, Bernini, and Salvator Rosa. One of my favorite from this time period is Caravaggio. Caravaggio was born in 1573 with the given name of Michelangelo Merisi. After ... ...

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... not in Amboise on May 1, 1519, so he couldn't be in Amboise the day after. His notebooks and paintings were passed on to his favorite student and long-time friend Francesco de Melzi, who had traveled to France with Leonardo in 1516. An interesting fact is that, while we know that Leonardo was buried in the palace church, we no longer ... ...

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... the common residents of the town, considering them to be inferior. Despite the possible downfalls that the republic had on Venice, they had much power throughout Europe. "The philosopher-poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) called it mundus alter, another world." (Brown, 9) In Florence, which is considered to be the most important center of Renaissance learning in history, the Medici family dominated ... ...

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