... sight-seeing, we stopped at a nearby restaurant at about 7.30pm and enjoyed eating lovely flavorsome Italian cuisine. Everyone around us spoke in Italian and most could speak a good smattering of high-school English. Since we were carrying an Italian-English' translation dictionary and some of the words in Italian are similar to French and English words, we did not find it that hard to ... our way to Paris, we learned (from the announcements made on the train) that France is the land of mysterious prehistoric caves and Celtic monoliths, Roman ruins, medieval fortresses and Renaissance c...

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... become so accustomed to it that we do not recognize it and take these powerful shapes and colors for granted. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti * The Italian millionaire poet and writer, Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti (later called Filippo Tommaso), was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1876 the second son of ... and in 1898 he published his first work in the new 'free verse' style. By 1900 he had decided to devote himself entirely to Italian and French literature and poetry. He founded the international magazine Poesia (Poetry) in 1905 and published it in Milan from 1905 until 1909. ... movement. ...

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Gothic architecture first got its name during the Italian renaissance when the people considered all buildings of the Middle Ages barbaric and associated them with the savage Goths. With the passing of many centuries, Gothic became more clearly associated with ... time, the separation point would set around the style, which followed, the Romanesque era. The title was later limited to the hardly barbaric architecture of the period between Romanesque and Renaissance. Gothic architecture emerged from Romanesque architecture in the year 1144 AD. A Benedictine abbot called Suger was building a ne...

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... (drawing or painting). The early cartoons were sketches, and it was quite common for the weavers to add their own artistic expressions giving each tapestry it's own individuality. By the Renaissance period, the cartoons were very sophisticated, drawn or painted in great detail with specific instruction to the weaver about colors and tones to be used. The Latin name for tapestry ... 12 colors, then dyed the thread, and only then started weaving these masterpieces. A skilled weaver took two months to complete just one square foot, working with English or Picardy wool, Italian silk, and si...

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... became the great museum that it is today. It houses the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo as well as other masterpieces from all over the world. It houses Italian Renaissance art, ancient Egyptian art, and Roman and Greek art. I admit that at that time it was not the most exiting thing I would do while in Paris but nowadays I am very ... ...

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... many artists. What is thought to be the "most famous work of this theme is Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus."" (Loggia) Since the creation of this painting in the early Renaissance, the Birth of Venus has become a model for artists though the centuries due to the soft features and how Botticelli captured the beauty of the goddess of Love (Loggia). But ... of showing the beauty of the woman. Titian's Venus of Urbino displays one artist that portrayed a woman in comparison to Aphrodite. The reclining nude played a very important part in famous Italian paintings. Also, artists try and as...

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