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making her the focal point. In Michelangelo’s painting only Saint Thomas is on the ground and the foreground is more natural looking indicating that Saint Thomas is in the mountains. The girdle in this painting is more visual then the one in Francesco and the virgin is in all white having her contrast with the background to create her as the central focal point. Also shown in the flowers that is within the clouds surrounding the Virgin are faces. The faces give the painting a distorted scale

Vespucci was born on March 9, 1451 in Florence, Italy. His parents Ser Nastagio and Lisabetta Mini were friends of the powerful Medici family. Vespucci’s father was a notary in Florence and his brothers studied in the University of Pisa. Vespucci on the other hand, received a rich education from his paternal uncle since

While searching for answers, historians sought to know the time when the portrait was created. According to them, the portrait must have been created when Francesco Del Giocondo and his wife purchased a house in 1503 or during the birth of their son in 1502. Thus, some analysts conclude that the portrait was dedicated to the wife of Francesco Del Giocondo. The nature of clothing often backs the argument. The gown and scarf represented an aristocratic status. The

clear beginnings except for basic ideas and theories. Wealth and humanism started the Renaissance in Italy by providing a motive to learn, causing art and engineering to flourish. The creation of humanism, influenced by the Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch, helped set the path of the Renaissance due to

The dark celebration come from a celtic celebration called Samhain (Francesco 1). It was not about witches and sorcery, it was about celebrating the dead. The Druid priest would organize a feast for the end of the summer, on October 31. They believed that the space between the dead and the living became smaller, and that by sorcery they could bring the dead to eat and drink with them, and give blessings to the living (Francesco 1). On the same night christians would come together to pray and fast

we all love a good hoax believing for a minute the absurd is possible or exposing the truth behind it. However, hoaxes can have a lasting impact on an area whether it is for tourism or the locals simply want to believe what they think they saw was real. When we examine loch Ness we can see how the legend of Nessie has shaped the area's industry, the reaction to the hoax, as well as what context brought this hoax to life. Loch ness is a quiet town is Scotland town, but everywhere you look you can

What is the “quintessential Renaissance man”? Justo Gonzalez defines the it perfectly: “He embodies the Renaissance view of what it means to be fully human, born to create, to leave one’s imprint on the world (…) [Leonardo] became the embodiment and symbol of the ‘universal man’ that was the goal of the Renaissance.” (González Vol. 1, pg. 369) One could say that the goal for the men of the Renaissance was to be as versatile as possible, picking up whatever trades they could master, along the way

of the people” widow with a young son and expecting another with Communist fiancé, Francesco. While Francesco hides the resistance leader in their apartment and puts him self and the family in danger, Magnani is prepared to fight for her family and for a better world, representing a strong working –class woman. However in the end Pina dies, is objectified, made powerless, and ultimately shown as inferior to Francesco because of her class, education and

of March, 1678, in Venice, Italy to Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio. During childhood, he found himself surrounded by his five siblings, Margarita Gabriela, Cecilia Maria, Bonaventura Tomaso, Zanetta Anna, and Francesco Gaetano Giovanni Battista. Francesco, like Vivaldi, would find music to be his calling. He would later teach a young Vivaldi the art of the violin. Vivaldi’s younger years were hard for him; he suffered from strettezza di petto, tightness of the chest; in other words

enthroned, for example, is a personification of Happiness, the figure for which the composition takes its name. However, the painting may also be interpreted as a tribute to Cosimo’s blissful rule over Florence and the perpetuation that is to come under Francesco, his successor. Unfortunately, I didn’t elaborate fully on Allegory’s civic meaning, though to be sure, it’s immensely