Rustico and Alibech by Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio The exact details of his birth are uncertain. A number of sources state that he was born in Paris‚ but others denounce this as romanticism by the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany‚ perhaps in Certaldo‚ the town of his father. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman‚ and almost certainly born illegitimate. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. His father was working for the Compagnia
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Giovanni Boccaccio “While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens‚ ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.” A famous quote written by Giovanni Boccaccio in his famous work ‘The Decameron’. An italian poet and scholar that helped develop the foundations of humanism and vernacular literature. Without him‚ the history of Italian Renaissance’s literacy would be unclear. With his famous poems and novels‚ he inspired many future writers like Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer. Giovanni
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Giovanni Da Verrazano Nusrat begum SOCIAL STUDIES 711 Giovanni Da Verrazano was one of the many European explorers that explored The New World‚ he explored northern eastern part of the present day U.S which are North Carolina‚ New York‚ Maine‚ Canada. Verrazano was also an Italian navigator who boarded voyages along with He was a Florentine explorer that served for King Francis I of France. Giovanni da Verrazano Giovanni travelled the seas as a pirate‚ or Privateer sailing for King Francis
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Nikki Giovanni: The Princess of Black Poetry Yolanda Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni is one of the world’s most renowned black poets‚ as well as an author‚ commentator‚ writer‚ and educator. Born in Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ raised in Cincinnati‚ Giovanni has been an involved activist and writer since the early 1960s. After leaving high school in the eleventh grade‚ she entered the historically black Fisk University where she graduated with a BA in History in 1967. During her time at Fisk‚ Giovanni became
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Stella Maris College for women [pic] Visual Culture assignment 1 Nikita .A 11/PFAA/010 Visual culture The term visual culture encompasses many media forms ranging from fine arts to popular film and television to advertising to visual data in fields such as the science‚ law and medicine. The term culture refers to a whole way of life‚ meaning a broad range of activities geared towards classifying and communicating symbolically within a society. Visual culture is the shared practice
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Symbolism and the Multiple Meanings in Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding Portrait Throughout the Renaissance‚ many talented artists tried to express deep symbolism in their paintings‚ but no one came close to the ability of Jan Van Eyck. His paintings were so accurate and realistic that it was necessary for him to paint his miniaturists with a single strand of hair‚ on a brush. Jan’s Arnolfini Wedding Portrait (1434) is so photo-realistic that it has been debated for decades of it’s legality of
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Iconography is particularly important in the study of religious and allegorical painting. For example‚ the Cross has always been a symbol of Christianity in religion. Nonetheless‚ a good example of an artwork in terms of its iconography is Arnolfini Portrait. The Arnolfini Portrait is an oil painting on oak panel dated 1434 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. One can apply a variety of iconographic interpretations
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Referring to iconographic and historical analysis‚ the author of the reading suggests several possible interpretations concerning “Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife‚” the 1434 oil painting by northern European artist Jan van Eyck. The identity of the couple and the subject matter of the portrait is still shrouded in mystery. The assumption that I made after reading chapter 19 was that Jan van Eyck might have dedicated the portrait to the couple as a testimony or commemoration of
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Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni has evolved as writer; naturalist and a modernist later. Naturalism was a literary movement that was taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions‚ heredity‚ and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. Giovanni shows naturalism in her works "Poem (No Name No. 2)"‚ and “[Untitled] (For Margaret Danner)”. Just to give a little background on modernism‚ Modernism is when writers proclaimed a new
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Courage Award‚ National Association of Radio and Television Announcers Award for Best Spoken Word Album‚ and the ALC Lifetime Achievement Award (Giovanni 1). These are a small portion of her numerous accomplishments. But‚ who is Nikki Giovanni and how did she become such a decorated and recognized poet? Nikki Giovanni was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.‚ 7 June 1943 in Knoxville‚ Tennessee. At a young age she considered herself a dreamer. She loved reading books and some of her favorite authors
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