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    Brunelleschi's Architecture

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    he draws up a theory of city planning and public space. His ideal city is filled with isolated‚ monumental buildings all perfectly balancing one another.While Brunelleschi is credited with inventing the architectural language of the Renaissance‚ Alberti is generally considered to have perfected it in terms of symmetry and disposition. From its beginnings‚ the humanist education program stressed practical over philosophical careers. The purpose of the humanistic education was to prepare people to

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    Meaning “rebirth” in French‚ the Renaissance in Italy represented a reawakening of classical ideals in art. Beginning in the 14th century‚ the revival of interest in antiquity inspired architects of the age to construct buildings of incredible proportion and symmetry that exuded harmony and order. The renewed concern with classicism sparked the creative imaginations of Renaissance architects‚ who referred to ancient architecture as a model which they often studied for inspiration. Though Renaissance

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    laborer to artist. They hoped to create structures that would appeal to both emotion and reason. Three key figures in Renaissance architecture were Filippo Brunelleschi‚ Leon Battista Alberti‚ and Andrea Palladio.[2] The Renaissance style was introduced with a revolutionary but incomplete monument in Rimini by Leone Battista Alberti‚ in Florence. Some of the earliest buildings showing Renaissance characteristics are Filippo Brunelleschi ’s church of San Lorenzo and the Pazzi Chapel. The interior of

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    humanism A new concept of human individuality‚ originating in the citystates of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy‚ that was based on desire for excellence in scholarship‚ creative work‚ and education. The humanist movement spread to northern Europe‚ France‚ England‚ and elsewhere‚ and continued to flourish until the mid-seventeenth century. Among its more familiar literary figures are‚ in Italy‚ Dante Alighieri‚ Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch)‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ Baldassare

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    Classical Humanism is described as "a phenomenon that gave the Renaissance"¦.its distinctly secular stamp."� Define classical humanism in its historical context and discuss the values and philosophy that shaped the literature and visual art of the Renaissance. The great intellectual movement of Renaissance Italy was humanism. The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life. The intellectual and social movement

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    1) Chapter 21: The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy a. The Early Renaissance in Italy (1400-1500) 2) Chapter 22: Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy a. The High and Late Renaissance in Italy (1500-1600) 3) Chapter 20: Late Medieval And Early Renaissance Northern Europe a. The Renaissance in Northern Europe in the 15th century 4) Chapter 23: High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain a. The Renaissance in Northern Europe in the 16th century 5) Chapter 24: The Baroque

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    heavily infused with the works of those such as Aristotle‚ with whom he shared an interest in optics‚ or the study of the eye. Optics would later play a large part in Leonardo’s study of light and shadows. He had also studied from men like Leon Battista Alberti‚ a quintessential Renaissance Man of the fifteenth century. In Leonardo’s studies of light‚ color‚ and shadow‚ he attempted to find the

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    Report on Cryptography

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    Contents Introduction 2 History of Cryptography 2 Modern Cryptography 4 Bibliography 5 Introduction If you want to keep valuable information a secret‚ there is two possible solutions: hide the entire existence of the information (Steganographic)‚ or make the information unintelligible (Cryptographic). For the sake of this report we will only look at Cryptography. Cryptography is a technique used to hide the meaning of a message and is derived from the Greek word kryptos which means “hidden” (Mathai)

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    Fra Angelico: Annunciation (c. 1440–45)‚ fresco‚ north corridor‚ monastery of S Marco‚ Florence; photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource‚ NYThe Renaissance refers to the era in Europe from the 14th to the 16th century in which a new style in painting‚ sculpture and architecture developed after the Gothic. Although a religious view of the world continued to play an important role in the lives of Europeans‚ a growing awareness of the natural world‚ the individual and collective humanity’s worldly

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    Donato D Angelo Bramante

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    Francesca)‚ Bramante went to Milan in 1481 and‚ like Leonardo‚ stayed there until the French arrived in 1499. In Milan‚ he abandoned painting to become one of his generation’s most renowned architects. Under the influence of Filippo Brunelleschi‚ Leon Battista Alberti‚ and perhaps Leonardo‚ all of whom strongly favored the art and architecture of classical antiquity‚ Bramante developed the High Renaissance form of the central-plan church.” (Kleiner 475) Bramante decorated

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