History of Italy

characterized by the ancient Romans and Greek history. This helped in the development of how they built their structures. Santa Maria Presso and the San Satiro was built during the 15th century and is known as one of the most, greatest masterpieces of Renaissance, the architect is Donato Bramante he is known for his rich ornamentation of his structure, with altar pieces and paintings that are lace in gold tooling. This became so popular in Florence Italy which was passed on to other parts of the…

Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. Born to a family in the banking business, Michelangelo became an apprentice to a painter before studying in the sculpture gardens of the powerful and royal Medici family. What followed was a remarkable career as an artist in the Italian Renaissance, noticed in his own time for his artistic outlook on everything. His works include the David and Pieta statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome's Sistine Chapel, the Last Judgment. He liked…

significant details that reveal his desire to be a “creator of Nature”. In short, an accumulation of knowledge over time gave rise to the development and maturation of techniques. The Flemish art of portraiture in the Early Renaissance influenced that in Italy in the High Renaissance, in which Leonardo da Vinci reached a zenith. The Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani is a transitional work by Leonardo, which shows both the influence of earlier artists and his innovation. His intense and mature…

The Unifications of Germany and Italy are inherently linked together. Both of the unifications served to weaken the Habsburg Austrian Empire which operated as a buffer in both cases. While the Italian unification was initiated first it was the German unification and subsequent wars with…

Both the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance art forms centered on realism and religion, but differed in that Italian art emphasized the human form and aristocracy, while Northern Art focused on fine details and color, and the everyday life of peasants. Northern art was predominantly Gothic, but over time began to adopt some of the Italian characteristics. To illustrate, the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ created by Albrecht Durer, shows the minute details used by Northern artists as…

baroque style. Although Italian born, Lully flourished in France. His work is very significant to French culture and history. Throughout the majority of his life he made an impact. These impacts can be seen through his childhood and growing years, his works and musical compositions, and his influence on future composers and their music. Giovanni Battista Lulli was born in Florence Italy in on November 28, 1632 and was the son of a miller. Later, once in France, changing his last name to…

Southern Italy during his exile? Many people do believe so because during his exile he traveled very often and in fact, the famous author B. Lucrezi states that in Dante’s work Convivio, he explicitly says to have been traveling thoughout the whole Italian peninsula. Furthermore, Dante, in his Divine Comedy, often refers to places, facts, characters, and some dialect sayings from Southern Italy. Nothing forbids us to believe that Dante Alighieri, during his exile, had visited Southern Italy as…

importance in the way of economic and political organization. Italy is the richest merchant country in both Europe and the East. In addition, Italy was fortunate to have a huge repository of classical monuments and artifacts. For examples, Roman architectures and Sculpture were found in most towns and cities, including copies of lost sculptures from ancient Greece, which were familiar for centuries. These are the conditions that made Italy became the first place where the Renaissance began in…

Renaissance started in Italy in the early 1300s depending upon recapturing the classical civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. By following the humanist movement, it focuses on building a world that its central values are human beings. Therefore, people worked on improving their own cultures, literature and art (Cox, 2015). The Renaissance had gradually spread northward to other European countries such as Spain and France to finally end around 1650. Although they both considered Italy as a…

The article starts out in Florence Italy were, according to the text, the Renaissance period originally began and spread throughout most of Europe. It discusses the changes in art and how paintings started to have a sense of real weight and place, in other words they had more of a realistic…