museums and places in Venice. After a few day eating pasta and drinking wine I was looking forward to our next place‚ Florence! At Florence we walked like the ironman race‚ a lot of miles to get to our destiny. It was the first time I used a train‚ a really fast train! It was awesome! We enjoyed the view of the place‚ the wineries‚ the houses‚ everything was pretty. When we where at Florence it was Easter celebration‚ we saw all the Catholic rituals and it was amazing to see all the people getting together
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and Chancellor of Florence‚ it became his duty to produce histories to not only reexamine the past‚ but also to help stimulate feelings of public spirit and civic pride. Largely relying on Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Libri as a foundation to form his narrative style‚ Bruni’s History of the Florentine People is physical evidence of the rebirth of the classical literary genre. The most direct‚ and noticeable‚ comparison of Livy and Bruni’s works is that they
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The Renaissance is referred to as the “rebirth”. The Renaissance was a movement that lasted from the thirteen hundreds to the sixteen hundreds. Renaissance is known as a time that classical art and learning more came into play. The Renaissance was originally began in Italy. It started there because most Italian artists lived there and started to identify classical art. Also because Italy at that time was the center of the Roman Empire. The main reasons the Renaissance came to be was when Europe’s
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attractions. A few of the most known attractions are the Leaning Tower of Pisa‚ Colosseum‚ David‚ and Florence Cathedral. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is located in Piazza Del Duomo and is a freestanding bell tower of the cathedral and stands at 183
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patronage of the city of Florence. Ghiberti is a good example of how it was not just wealthy families or individuals who commissioned works of art for themselves. Unlike Donatello and Leonardo‚ Ghiberti did not seem to do as much art for individuals‚ instead‚ he did more public pieces‚ and was most frequently commissioned to do works for the city of Florence. For instance‚ after being commissioned to create the doors‚ he was commissioned by the Merchants Guild of Florence to make a bronze statue of
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widow. She died during an outbreak of plague. He was a member of an aristocratic and wealthy Florentine family of merchants and bankers that had been exiled from Florence for political reasons in 1377. Having grown up in the shadow of exile‚ he spent his life in continuous travels even after his family was allowed to return to Florence in 1428. Under his father’s influence‚ he studied classical subjects at the best universities: literature in Venice and Padua‚ law and Greek in Bologna. But from
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Taylor Webb 6/18/13 Document Analysis Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi Letter 5 Alessandra Strozzi wrote many letters to her children which can convey to us the importance of family in Florence during the Renaissance. Alessandra’s husband Matteo died‚ and so these letters are written from the perspective of a widow‚ not a married woman. In Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King‚ it states that widows of the Renaissance could dispose of the family wealth themselves and were also able to carry on
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March 1475‚ a few hours before dawn (Symonds 5). His father was a sort of “local governor of the small towns of Caprese…” thus giving him a more graced chance at making it somewhere higher in the world. When his father moved his family back to Florence‚ Michelangelo was “first exposed to stone carving‚” and besides that fact‚ was enrolled in a Latin school. As he continued in this‚ he found that he was drawn more to art‚ than to other professions; this realization‚ of course as it would any‚ upset
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his father’s status on art. Raphael started showing his talents with drawings of self-portraits. As a teen‚ Sanzio was even commissioned to paint for the Church of San Nicola. In 1504 he moved to Florence to develop more knowledge‚ and study the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Here in Florence he gained important commissions such as Monde de Crucifixion. Raphael was able to assimilate the influence of Florentine art‚ while keeping his own developing style. In
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literature‚ was an idea associated with the Renaissance. During the fifteenth century‚ the printing press was developed‚ resulting in the spread of printed word‚ literacy‚ and new ideas. Simultaneously‚ many Italian cities’ trade increased dramatically. Florence‚ the birthplace of the Renaissance‚ was located along the Arno River‚ which made it a popular trading port. Florentine merchants
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