... every means possible - painting, sculpture, music, architecture and poetry to reform Italy's traditional culture beyond recognition. Marinetti's Futurism sprung from the modernity and urban life experienced throughout Europe. The Industrialization in Europe had given the machine environmental status yet Italy, with a lack of raw materials, had been left behind. The industrial advances that did occur appeared intrusive against Italian life ... , yet due to Italy's isolation from the Industrial revolution it allowed the machine to be romanticised. By 1900 the society, hundreds of years old,...

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... great change, which produced many great minds. During this time period, society was transformed into one of increasingly dominated by central political institutions with an urban attitude. People's curiosity overcame their fear and many people began to explore and try new things out. It was so evident that new schools ... was able to prove the theory of perpetual motion false, but it still fascinated him. His notes included small ideas for how a perpetual motion machine would work. He believed that an unbalanced wheel that would revolve forever would conserve pretty much all to most of ...

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... appeal. Some of the greatest works of architecture were either conceived or build during the Baroque period. Many works of baroque architecture were executed on a colossal scale, incorporating aspects of urban planning and landscape architecture. This is most clearly scene in Bernini's elliptical piazza in front of St. Peters in Rome. Bernini devised the immense oval enclosure, its axis running ... that demonstrated just how far, the human race has advanced since its primitive stage. The movement of modern architecture came in the twentieth century, signifying a maturity of the industri...

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