Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini also known as Giacomo Puccini. He was named after an 18th century ancestor, who founded a long line of local musicians including Puccini’s father. Puccini is the most successful follower of Verdi, continuing the line of Italian opera composers onto the 20th century. He was born into a musical family that was strongly tied to Christianity, so he served as a church organist and choir director until Verdi’s performance of “Aida” inspired him to become a composer of operas. Puccini an a friend walked 18.5 miles just to see Verdi’s performance of “Aida.” Puccini is called “ the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi.” Puccini was born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy on December 22, 1858 in a house in Corte San Lorenzo. This house was where he spent the first twenty-two years of his life at. Being born into a family with 5 generations of music behind it, he had big shoes he had to fill. He was one of seven children of Michele Puccini and Albina Magi. Puccini was just five years old when his father died and wasn’t capable of taking over his fathers job as a composer, organist, and a teacher. After his father died, his mother sent him to his uncle Fortunato Magi, hoping he can help him with his music. Magi considered Puccini as a poor and undisciplinded student and told his mom, Albina, to give up hopes for her son. Most people think it was that Fortunato was actually jealous of Puccini’s talent, an was afraid he might ruin
Born Vinci, Italy in the year of 1452, Da Vinci was born into a respected family of the community. Early on in his life, his artistic talents were evident and he was sent to Florence to be an apprentice to the respected artist Andrea del Verrocchio. Under the guidance of Verrocchio, Da Vinci acquired a variety of skills which he would later master. Da Vinci learned skills such as metalworking, sculpting and carpentry. Equipped with a wide
Alessandro Filipepi most commonly known as Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy around 1445. Botticelli began studying under Renaissance painter Fra Filippo Lippi at the age of 16 and would go on to become one of the most acclaimed artists in Italy during his lifetime. During the Renaissance, art
Raphael was born in Urbino, Italy on April 6, 1483. At the time of his birth Urbino was encouraging the arts and was a cultural center. Raphael's father, Giovanni Santi who was a painter for the Duke of Urbino (Federigo da Montefeltro), taught him, when he was young, the basics of "painting techniques and exposed him to the humanistic philosophy at the Dukes court. When he was 8 years old his mother died then when he was 11 years old his father died. After his death Raphael started managing his father's workshop and he quickly surpassed his father's work and was now considered the "finest painter in the town".
Composer of Per La Gloria D’Adorarvi, Giovanni Battista Bononcini(1672-1748) was born into a family of composers. Both his father and brother were composers. Although he was orphaned at age 8, he still followed in his fathers footsteps, releasing instrumental music by age 15. Throughout his life, he moved around to many different European countries, but he was born and died in Italy. This shows through in his Italian baroque style, which he helped spread around Europe in his travels.
Michelangelo Buonarroti is a very well known artist from Italy and is know all over the world. He was more than just a painter he was a poet, sculptor, and architect. Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 to Francesca Neri and Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni in Caprese, Italy. His family was in the banking business, he was born to the Florentine family of burgher nobility. Early in Michelangelo's life his mother became ill and he was places with a family of stonecutters. He loved going to a local church and watching the painters paint and drawing what he saw, that's where he grew his interest in painting. Michelangelo's friend from grammar school Francesco Granacci introduced him to a painter named Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Michelangelo Merisi; also known as Caravaggio was a historical painter that can be traced back to Northern Italy. He was born on September 28th, 1571 in a town called Milan. At an early age, Michelangelo would flee with his family to Caravaggio to escape a plague that devastated their hometown. This was a major aspect in his life as he would soon be known by that name. Both his father and grandfather would pass away there just a few years later, coincidentally on the same day. It is believed that his family had close connections with the Sforzas which were a ruling class group in Italy at the time. They ended up playing a major part in the following years. Merisi was a man filled with intersecting personalities. During his early ages, he was a well trained painter.
Giuseppe Verdi Research Paper Derek C. Zimmerman HUM 221 Northwest State Community College Abstract The Italian opera was at an ultimate high during the romantic period. Many composers came to life during this period and became some of the most prominent composers of all time.
This is where the “da Palestrina” in his name as a musical composer would come from. Pierluigi started his learning in Rome where he ended up starting and finishing his musical education. He went from a simple choir boy to an outstanding composer. His patron
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 and was born Caprese Michelangelo, Italy. He was known as a painter, architect, poet, sculptor and an engineer at his time. He was known as one of the greatest artist of the Renaissance period. People see him as an equal to Leonardo da Vinci and even Rafael. He was born into a banking family in Florence he lost his mother at an early age after his mother died his father didn’t know what to do so he send him to live with a stone cutter family. Since he didn’t like school to much his father sent him to study with Ghirlandaio that was when he found his talent in sculpting. His father sent him to study with one of the greatest artist Lorenzo de Medici when he was staying there he sculpted his first sculpture
His parents were Giovanni di Simone Cassai and Jacopa di Martinozzo and his father was a notary and his mother was the daughter of an inn keeper. His father died when he was five years old and his brother was born in the same year. Both he and his brother became artists, despite no one in their
Known as a successful painter, sculptor, architect, and poet, many believe that Michelangelo was the most famous artist during the Italian Renaissance. Michelangelo was born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in Caprese, Tuscany, on March 6, 1475. His mother and father had five sons and he was the second child. Michelangelo’s father was in the banking business and realized when his son was only 13 that he was not interested in education and was continually watching the painters at nearby churches. (Bio.com)
Verdi an Italian opera composer, was born in the small village of Le Roncole, Italy, in 1813. At a young age, Verdi had a passion for the arts. A wealthy merchant and musician, Barezzi, recognized Verdi’s talents and he becomes his patron. With Barezzi’s help, Verdi applied to Milan Conservatory but was rejected, because he wasn’t old enough. Instead, Verdi studied under Vincenzo Lavigna, a former principal conductor at La Scala Opera House in Milan. With the training, Verdi considers himself self-taught.
Rossini is probably the most popular composer of this era. His works are many and are extremely popular. Rossini was born in Pesaro in 1792 and on December15th, 1815 when he was only twenty-three years old, he signed a contract to write an opera for a theater in Rome (Weaver, 11). His childhood friend, Gertrude Righetti Giorgi, premiered as Rosina in Rossin’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, on opening night for the Nobile Teatro di Torre Argentina (Weaver, 19). Il barbiere di Siviglia went on to become one of the more famous operas of Rossini’s. This opera went through many struggles, however, because of the similar story
On March 6th, 1475 Leonardo di Buonarrota and Francesca Neri had their second out of five sons in the small village of Caprese, Italy. They named him Michelangelo di Lodovivo Buonarroti Simoni. But soon after being birthed Michelangelo moved to Florence, Italy with his family.
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was the full name of the famous artist we all call by just his first name Michelangelo. Michelangelo was born on March 6th, 1475 in Caprese, Italy and lived with his parents and four siblings. Michelangelo's mother became sick when he was an infant and he was raised by a wet nurse. In Michelangelo's teen years he would leave school early and go to the church to watch the painted while they worked; his family started to see him as a disgrace as they didn’t see art as a profession he should join(Michelangelo). As he became older he worked more and more with stone over any other type of art and made