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    Leonardo Da Vinci Ankit Badatala 12/5/16 Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most important men of the Italian Renaissance. He single handedly influenced art, vast fields of science and engineering of that time period. He was considered the epitome of a “Renaissance man.” He was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy and died on May 2, 1519 ("Leonardo da Vinci"). He always had a curious mind, keen intellect and a strong sense of curiosity even from a young age. Over Leonardo’s lifetime, he

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    sculptures were created and viewed. Artistically through paintings, Leonardo contributed new techniques, Massaccio contributed the one-point perspective, Rapahel clarified the form, Piero Della Francesca transformed art to me more realistic and life-like. Michelangelo, Leonardo, Massaccio, Raphael, and Piero Della Francesca all lead art to become more innovative throughout their own work. Michelangelo was predominantly recognized as a sculpture. However, he painted one of the most outstanding paintings

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    The Early vs. the High Renaissance - I've decided to go with Piero Della - Francesca Battista Sforza and Frederico Da Montefeltro vs. Raphael Agnelo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi. Paintings. Despite their many differences, there are also some similarities between the portraits made by these two artists. Discussing pg. 620 (20-31) Piero Della Francesca Battista Sforza and his wife and Frederico Da Montefeltro, an Italian artist during the Early Renaissance, Fifteenth Century in Uffizi, Florence. The

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    Renaissance. Representatives were Giotto di Bondone and Piero della Francesca. Gitto and Piero paintings were a mirror to reflect Italy world in the period of Pro- Renaissance period and Early Renaissance. In addition, there were many similarities and differences between Giotto and Piero painting style, such as naturalism and humanism; religious piety with good business and religious piety with human development for needs. Obviously, Giotto and Piero were painting giant. Giotto di Bondone was regarded

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    wealthy individuals in politics or religion, but on the Northern half of Europe art shows the very rural aspect of human life. Many of these differences can be represented by the Northern works of Piero della Francesca Resurrection and the Southern works of Pieter Brueghal’s The Census at Bethlehem. Della francesca's Resurrection depicts Jesus during the resurrection triumphantly standing over four soldiers as they sleep in front of his tomb. The meaning of this fresco is to show how the heavens will

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    Piero della Francesca’s art has always been intriguing to the eyes of the lookers, analysers, every art pieces containing lots of symbolism and meanings. The Altarpiece Madonna and child with Saints adored by Frederico da Montefeltro was one of the work. Piero della Francesca was born in 1412 and was involved in the Early Renaissance movement. His style involved the use of humanism, geometric forms and use of perspective to create art. From what I saw in the piece Enthroned Madonna and Child with

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    As exemplified in Raphael’s School of Christ, Della Francesca was the first to recognize that using mathematical equations and position was necessary to show perspective, hierarchy and the passage of time. ”Resurrection of Christ” is an example of a painting where he used various mathematical influences

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    During the 15th century, Northern Europe as well as Italy witnessed a serious revival of drawing accompanied by sculpture, painting and architecture. This revival was termed as the Renaissance. The revival effected major changes onto the representation of pictorial space on these two regions. These changes on that occurred on pictorial space representation were mostly driven by new idea of “Humanism”. Humanism philosophy practically outwitted religious and secular belief. As a result, the philosophy

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    sites: The Ideal city of Urbino, Baltimore, and Berlin. The painting is authorized by the court of Federico da Montefeltro. The artist of the painting is unknown, it is assumed it is around the time revolved around the Duke of Montefeltro; or Piero della Francesca, Luciano Laurana, Francesco di Giorgio Martini. What makes the work distinctive is the outlook and the general sequence of the piece of art as well as what it speaks for. After Plato’s statements of an urban utopias or ideal cities, ‘The ideal

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    What are some of the qualities and strategies Machiavelli recommends to political leaders in the excerpts you read? How does this represent a break with the past? Machiavelli brought up many controversial and untraditional points regarding what a kingdom or prince was allowed to do to maintain power. The most extreme, being that the prince wasn't held to any moral code in the practice of maintaining power. A prince must be prepared to ward off any conflicting power even if it means breaking

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