Born in 1377 to a distinguished Florentine notary‚ Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi‚ and his wife Giuliana Spini‚ Filippo Brunelleschi was the second of three sons. Not much is known about his childhood‚ but it is speculated that his father had wanted him to follow in his footsteps in law as a notary. Filippo had other plans in mind‚ however. In 1392‚ Brunelleschi became a goldsmithing and sculpting apprentice. During his apprenticeship‚ he studied and mastered drawing and painting‚ woodcarving‚ metal
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an age in which artistic‚ social‚ scientific‚ and political thought turned in new directions. DANTE AS A FORERUNNER OF THE RENAISSANCE Dante Alighieri‚ "the fame of the Tuscan people‚" was born at Florence in 1265. He was exiled by the Florentines in I‚302‚ and at the courts of friends learned how hard a thing it is " to climb the stairway of a patron." He died at Ravenna in 1321‚ and his tomb there is a place of pilgrimage to-day. It was during the years of his exile that Dante wrote his
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or also known as the capital punishment‚ is one of the most debated topics in the judicial system of the world. It has existed long before 2500 BC‚ when Hammurabi (Mesopotamia civilization) created the first written law called ‘Codex Hammurabi’. The principal of the codex is generally ‘eye for an eye‚ tooth for a tooth’. At that time‚ it was most likely if a person committed a capital crime‚ such as murder or theft‚ they were executed to maintain harmony in the community and to bring solace to those
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1) Read chapters One through three of your textbook 2) Compare and contrast the Existentialism and Contractarianism framework Compare: Both existentialism and contractarianism frameworks are two of the three deontological frameworks outlined in chapter one. Deontological frameworks focus on the duty or obligation in determining whether the actions are right or wrong. Contrast: Existentialism focuses on individual behavior while contractarianism focuses on society as a whole. Existentialism
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Ancient Roman Laws Although the history of Rome’s regal period is based in large part on legend‚ and was so in antiquity‚ tradition was strong‚ and many of Rome’s laws and customs‚ committed to writing much later‚ have their roots in the distant past. Ancient Rome had many different types of law in government. Out of all of the ancient Roman laws‚ the Julian Marriage laws‚ the laws of the kings‚ and the Justinian Codes‚ are some of them. The Julian Marriage laws were very specific and
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Practically nothing is known of Nicolo Machiavelli before he became a minor official in the Florentine Government. His youth‚ however‚ was passed during some of the most tumultuous years in the history of Florence. He was born the year that Lorenzo the Magnificent came to power‚ subverting the traditional civil liberties of Florence while inaugurating a reign of unrivaled luxury and of great brilliance for the arts. He was twenty-five at the time of Savonarola ’s attempt to establish a
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something that was common and closely associated to the Italian Renaissance. Masaccio was a trained Florentine artist. Artists in Florentine were trained in things such as anatomy‚ modeling‚ and perspective‚ which helped them to create art that employed life like figures and gave a natural‚ quite realistic look to the pieces. Masaccio was considered one of the most innovative artists of Florentine because of his mastery of the linear perspective. He pushed Italian painting into entirely new standards
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IS THE LEGEND OF JUAN DIEGO AND THE VIRGIN MARY TRUE? The legend of the supposed sighting of the Virgin Mary by Juan Diego‚ from Britannica Biographies‚ starts of that his first vision of The Virgin Mary was on December 9‚ 1531. When he was visited‚ he was on Tepeyac Hill‚ which lies outside of Mexico City. In Náhuatl‚ the native language of Aztecs‚ asking him to build a shrine on the hill. Juan went to tell the Bishop about the incident but the Bishop did not believe his story and wanted proof
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Republic. Cosimo was one of the wealthiest men in Europe and spent a very large portion of his fortune in government and philanthropy. He was a patron of the arts and funded public works. Lorenzo’s father‚ Piero de’ Medici‚ was also at the center of Florentine life‚ active as an art patron and collector. His mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni was a poet and writer of sonnets. She was also family friends with incredible figures like Luigi Pulci and Agnolo Poliziano and became her son’s advisor when he took over
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Florence‚ the Martelli’s. While he was with the family he was given his first instructions on becoming a goldsmith. The name of Donatello’s mother was unknown but Niccolo di Betto Bardi was his father and he was a wool comber in Florentine. His father was a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild. Donatello didn’t want to do what his father did so he took a different route. It is believed that he received his artistic training in a goldsmith’s workshop. There he learned about metallurgy and fabrication
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