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I was interested in the artists of the Renaissance, particularly Botticelli because I researched him for my World Arts project. This page has a brief overview of Botticelli. Here is another overview of Botticelli. Botticelli was Italian, born in 1445. His most famous pice of art is probably the Birth Of Venus. Other works by Botticelli can be found here.
A question I have about Botticelli is did he ever work with any of the other great artists in the Renaissance, or did he paint all by himself?
I decided to find some more information on Da Vinci. Some interesting facts that I found about him were, he would wear pink to make his complexion look fresher, he never attended a public school, and he was raised by his single father. I also found that he was born April 15, 1452 and died May 2, 1519. Beside being an artist, Da Vinci also was an architect, musician, engineer, scientist and inventor. He also sketched the first parachute, first helicopter, first airplane, first tank, first repeating rifle, swinging bridge, paddle boat, and first motor car, which I thought was pretty interesting. A question I have is: I know that the Wright Brothers invented the first successful airplane and that they were after Da Vinci, so did they use the sketches that Da Vinci made?
I wanted to know more about Andrea Palladio because arcitecture interests me. I found out that he was one of the "most influential people in the history of western arctiecture". At this site I saw some of Palladio's buildings. My favorite was La Rotonda/Villa Capra. When I first saw the name, I thought of the Rotunda at UVA. I found out that both buildings were based on the Parthenon. (Although, I already knew that about UVA's Rotunda). At this site, it says that Palladio placed the building so that it connected with nature. I was wondering if all his buildings were built to connect with their surroundings. Also, with Villa Capra, he made sure that all the rooms got sunlight. I want to know if he made sure that all his buildings got something special.
About the guy himself, I found out that at first he was to be a stonecutter, but after 18 months as an apprentice, he ran out on the job. I also found that he was first recognized for his talents in his thirties. He got his ideas for his architecture from the roman past. He first learned the "principles" of classical architecture while working on additions to Gian Giorgio Trissino's villa. Here I found more about Gian Giorgio Trissio. (Who was a really interesting person...) As well as being one of the most influential achitects, Palladio was an author, publishing books about Classic Roman arcitecture. But more importantly, he published books outlining his principles for his architecture and giving advice to the builders of the future. He is said to be one of the most copied architects in the western world. So he was pretty good at what he did. I was wondering if his architecture was copied, or his inspiration was copied.
Some other interesting information... 1. Villa Capra is now owned by Mario di Valmarana who is a former professor of architecture at UVA. 2. Palladio is not his real name. It was changed from Andrea Di Pietro della Gondola. He was given his new name by Trissino. 3. He was given the name Palladio after the greek god of wisdom.
Here are some pictures of Villa Capra. and here is a site with some really useful information about Palladio
I was interested in music and art during the renaissance period. However I thought focusing on music could be interesting. I thought that French composer Guillame Dufay was an interesting individual. I learned that he was a famous French composer during the renaissance period. I also learned that he was born in Cambrai, France in 1399 and died in 1474. He joined a choir with about 15 to 20 other artists and after he continuously switched choirs. He also was able to teach due to his education and expereince. I found this information from the 8th grade renaissance page titled "Musicians".
I also find art very interesting and like Da Vinci, Raphael and MichaelAngelo and many others.
If its possible I would like to focus on music and art and how they connect, and how they related to one another during the renaissance period.
I was still interested in the Medici family after this reading and there happened to be a link to the PBS webpage for the Medici family. I read all the links on the page and found the whole thing really cool. While I was reading it all I could think about was that this family seemed a lot like a mafia family. They killed the people who got in their way, bribed people, corrupted others and held onto their power very tightly. I also read that the family made strong connections with the pope and that this was very important to the family's power. But if the pendulum swayed away from the pope how did that help the family? Later on in the reading about the Medici family, one of the three popes to come from the family, Pope Clement the seventh, had a child. I thought this was strange because pope's can't have wives shouldn't they not have kids? This made me wonder if him being a pope was just another way to stay in power and he wasn't really that religious. Lastly, I read about the assassination of Giuliano and Lorenzo de'Medici. I found it very interesting how the powerful families of Italy "battled" right out in the open. The Pazzi family was in charge of the assassinations, only Giuliano died, but Lorenzo made it out alive. This doomed the Pazzi family. The family members were hung and thrown from windows of Palazzo Vecchio. The family has a lot of bloody murder stories that they did right out in the open. I found it really interesting how they held that much power and could influence people so much that they could murder people in front of a whole town.
I was interested in finding out more information about Fillippo. From reading about him I learned that he studied the science of motion, and I found that very interested because we now use that science of motion for a lot of stuff we do. It was also very interesting that he was the first to create the reverse gear. This was interesting because our 21st century society using this reverse gear to hoist a lot of heavy equipment up to great heights.
One question I have is why was he so paraniod to present his work in the competion between him and Ghiberti?
I wanted to learn more about Niccolo Machiavelli; since I have heard "machiavellian" used as an adjective, but never learned about the person behind it. (Machiavellian means deceptive or manipulative)
Niccolo Machiavelli lived from 1469-1527, and was born in Florence. Machiavelli was very involved in the politics of Florence until it was taken over by the Medici family. He fought against the takeover, and ended up being tortured for conspiracy involvement. Though he was eventually pardoned, Machiavelli was never able to gain favor from the Medicis and retired from public life.
Machiavelli was a political theorist, and is well known for the pamphlet he wrote, The Prince. According to Wikipedia, The Prince states that "actions to protect the country, no matter how cruel, are always justified." So, the end justifies the means. Even thought The Prince unfairly represents Machiavelli's work of a lifetime (He wrote many plays as well as a History of Florence), he is most remembered for it. The Prince was actually an attempt to curry favor with the Medici family, but it failed. Machiavelli's works were only published after his death.
I found it very interesting that while Machiavelli actually fought for the freedom of Florence, he is only associated with a lack of morals and almost totalitarian government. One question I had was- who was responsible for publishing Machiavelli's works after his death, and how they gain popularity?
Here is an excellent overview of his life, and here is a portrait.
I was interested in learning about Michelangelo mainly because he's left-handed.
I found here that Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Since I would like to become an architect, I wanted to look at some of his works. I found that he worked on projects that other men started. "Around 1530 Michelangelo designed the Laurentian Library in Florence, attached to the church of San Lorenzo." Here is a picture of that. Michelangelo also designed the Medici Chapel. Here is a picture of that.
Niccolo Machiavelli: He was a political strategist from the renaissances, May 3, 1469- June 21, 1527. After Florence was restored to a republic, Machiavelli was placed on the council. He was in charge of diplomatic negotiations and the military. His services were like a mix between the Armed Services committee and the in today’s Senate and Congress. He commanded Florence’s militia when the Medici family retook Florence. He was exiled afterwards. This is when he started writing books on political theory. He wrote two infuenctial books, one was called The Prince and the other was Discourses of Livy . It is from The Prince that we get the famous quote: "It is best to be both feared and loved; however, if one cannot be both it is better to be feared than loved."
I first became interested in Filippo Brunelleschi when his name was mentioned in the reading. I followed the link from the Renaissance page, and I found some interesting details. First of all, he was from Florence, Italy. He started as a goldsmith. He became interested in math and architecture, so he started building houses and other buildings. When he continued his studies, he chose to abandon goldsmithing and study architecture instead. When he died at the age of 69 he was buried under the floor of the Cathedral of Florence. He is considered to be one of the best Italian Renaissance architects. A lot of what he known for building was churches and cathedrals. He also constructed a hospital. The thing he is most famous for appears to be the dome of the Cathedral of Florence. His life and works led me to wonder several things: Was it easy to change a potential profession during the Renaissance? It sounds like was able to just switch to becoming an architect. How common was that? I would have thought that the professions the people were trained in would be more set in stone.
Were the important buildings of the time all centered around religion? If not, what sort of buildings were equally important as the churches?
How much say did Filippo Brunelleschi have in the buildings he created? Was he able to say, "Hey, let's build a cathedral over there," or did he have to do what was asked of him?
Where did he want to be buried? Did they have to dig a hole in the middle of the cathedral and then repair it? Was that what he would have wanted?
I know that the artists of the renaissance are a big thing so I decided to research them. As I was looking found good sites for http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/michelangelo.html MICHELANGELO also I found one http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/raphael.html RAPHAEL. I did my world arts project on Raphael, so I thought that was interesting. http://library.thinkquest.org/2838/artgal.htm This is a good link to information about all the artists.
(sorry my computer wouldn't let me post with linked text.)
I decided to learn more about one of the architects in the Renaissance. I chose Leon Battista Alberti. Besides being an architect he was also an author, artist, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer. He was also a humanist like the reading the other day mentioned many during the Renaissance were. He had a broad range of knowledge in many subjects including the arts, sciences, and math. He uses this knowledge to create a treatise named De pictura (On painting) which discusses perspective in art. I found this interesting because having just attempted to paint a renaissance painting it is quite a bit harder with perspective and some of the other advances made during the renaissance. However the method still wasn't perfected. This website shows how the early renaissance method of perspective still wasn't perfect.
I've never heard of him before, and I found out that he is considered the founder of astronomy. He was a POLISH Renaissance man, which I found interesting because I don't think of Poland when I think of the Renaissance.
Nicolaus was the first person to consider the Earth not being in the center of the universe. He thought of the sun to be the center of the universe. He spent his whole life writing a book about his work in astronomy, but he never got to see it published. At his funeral, the first published copy of his book was placed into his hands (representing his life's work).
I thought it was interesting that I've never heard of this guy, especially since he's such a big deal in the field of science (astronomy).
The question I had was... Did this book of his cause any contreversy? Especially within the church is what I'm thinking, because the church was known for giving scientists with new discoveries a hard time, back then.
Here's a good site by Stanford with a detailed description of Nicolaus Copernicus.
After reading the first reading, I looked at the artists, and the one that I chose to look at was Raphael. While I was looking at the Raphael page, it stated several of his accomplishments, and most of them were paintings. While looking at the titles of the paintings, I saw that several of them involved the word Madonna in them. I was curious why Madonna was painted with religious figures.Madonna was like a mother figure, this is what I figured out.
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I was interested in the artists of the Renaissance, particularly Botticelli because I researched him for my World Arts project. This page has a brief overview of Botticelli. Here is another overview of Botticelli. Botticelli was Italian, born in 1445. His most famous pice of art is probably the Birth Of Venus. Other works by Botticelli can be found here.
A question I have about Botticelli is did he ever work with any of the other great artists in the Renaissance, or did he paint all by himself?
I decided to find some more information on Da Vinci. Some interesting facts that I found about him were, he would wear pink to make his complexion look fresher, he never attended a public school, and he was raised by his single father. I also found that he was born April 15, 1452 and died May 2, 1519. Beside being an artist, Da Vinci also was an architect, musician, engineer, scientist and inventor. He also sketched the first parachute, first helicopter, first airplane, first tank, first repeating rifle, swinging bridge, paddle boat, and first motor car, which I thought was pretty interesting. A question I have is: I know that the Wright Brothers invented the first successful airplane and that they were after Da Vinci, so did they use the sketches that Da Vinci made?
I wanted to know more about Andrea Palladio because arcitecture interests me. I found out that he was one of the "most influential people in the history of western arctiecture". At this site I saw some of Palladio's buildings. My favorite was La Rotonda/Villa Capra. When I first saw the name, I thought of the Rotunda at UVA. I found out that both buildings were based on the Parthenon. (Although, I already knew that about UVA's Rotunda). At this site, it says that Palladio placed the building so that it connected with nature. I was wondering if all his buildings were built to connect with their surroundings. Also, with Villa Capra, he made sure that all the rooms got sunlight. I want to know if he made sure that all his buildings got something special.
About the guy himself, I found out that at first he was to be a stonecutter, but after 18 months as an apprentice, he ran out on the job. I also found that he was first recognized for his talents in his thirties. He got his ideas for his architecture from the roman past. He first learned the "principles" of classical architecture while working on additions to Gian Giorgio Trissino's villa. Here I found more about Gian Giorgio Trissio. (Who was a really interesting person...) As well as being one of the most influential achitects, Palladio was an author, publishing books about Classic Roman arcitecture. But more importantly, he published books outlining his principles for his architecture and giving advice to the builders of the future. He is said to be one of the most copied architects in the western world. So he was pretty good at what he did. I was wondering if his architecture was copied, or his inspiration was copied.
Some other interesting information...
1. Villa Capra is now owned by Mario di Valmarana who is a former professor of architecture at UVA.
2. Palladio is not his real name. It was changed from Andrea Di Pietro della Gondola. He was given his new name by Trissino.
3. He was given the name Palladio after the greek god of wisdom.
Here are some pictures of Villa Capra. and here is a site with some really useful information about Palladio
I was interested in music and art during the renaissance period. However I thought focusing on music could be interesting. I thought that French composer Guillame Dufay was an interesting individual. I learned that he was a famous French composer during the renaissance period. I also learned that he was born in Cambrai, France in 1399 and died in 1474. He joined a choir with about 15 to 20 other artists and after he continuously switched choirs. He also was able to teach due to his education and expereince. I found this information from the 8th grade renaissance page titled "Musicians".
I also find art very interesting and like Da Vinci, Raphael and MichaelAngelo and many others.
If its possible I would like to focus on music and art and how they connect, and how they related to one another during the renaissance period.
I was still interested in the Medici family after this reading and there happened to be a link to the PBS webpage for the Medici family. I read all the links on the page and found the whole thing really cool. While I was reading it all I could think about was that this family seemed a lot like a mafia family. They killed the people who got in their way, bribed people, corrupted others and held onto their power very tightly. I also read that the family made strong connections with the pope and that this was very important to the family's power. But if the pendulum swayed away from the pope how did that help the family? Later on in the reading about the Medici family, one of the three popes to come from the family, Pope Clement the seventh, had a child. I thought this was strange because pope's can't have wives shouldn't they not have kids? This made me wonder if him being a pope was just another way to stay in power and he wasn't really that religious. Lastly, I read about the assassination of Giuliano and Lorenzo de'Medici. I found it very interesting how the powerful families of Italy "battled" right out in the open. The Pazzi family was in charge of the assassinations, only Giuliano died, but Lorenzo made it out alive. This doomed the Pazzi family. The family members were hung and thrown from windows of Palazzo Vecchio. The family has a lot of bloody murder stories that they did right out in the open. I found it really interesting how they held that much power and could influence people so much that they could murder people in front of a whole town.
I was interested in finding out more information about Fillippo. From reading about him I learned that he studied the science of motion, and I found that very interested because we now use that science of motion for a lot of stuff we do. It was also very interesting that he was the first to create the reverse gear. This was interesting because our 21st century society using this reverse gear to hoist a lot of heavy equipment up to great heights.
One question I have is why was he so paraniod to present his work in the competion between him and Ghiberti?
I wanted to learn more about Niccolo Machiavelli; since I have heard "machiavellian" used as an adjective, but never learned about the person behind it. (Machiavellian means deceptive or manipulative)
Niccolo Machiavelli lived from 1469-1527, and was born in Florence. Machiavelli was very involved in the politics of Florence until it was taken over by the Medici family. He fought against the takeover, and ended up being tortured for conspiracy involvement. Though he was eventually pardoned, Machiavelli was never able to gain favor from the Medicis and retired from public life.
Machiavelli was a political theorist, and is well known for the pamphlet he wrote, The Prince. According to Wikipedia, The Prince states that "actions to protect the country, no matter how cruel, are always justified." So, the end justifies the means. Even thought The Prince unfairly represents Machiavelli's work of a lifetime (He wrote many plays as well as a History of Florence), he is most remembered for it. The Prince was actually an attempt to curry favor with the Medici family, but it failed. Machiavelli's works were only published after his death.
I found it very interesting that while Machiavelli actually fought for the freedom of Florence, he is only associated with a lack of morals and almost totalitarian government. One question I had was- who was responsible for publishing Machiavelli's works after his death, and how they gain popularity?
Here is an excellent overview of his life, and here is a portrait.
I was interested in learning about Michelangelo mainly because he's left-handed.
I found here that Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Since I would like to become an architect, I wanted to look at some of his works. I found that he worked on projects that other men started. "Around 1530 Michelangelo designed the Laurentian Library in Florence, attached to the church of San Lorenzo." Here is a picture of that. Michelangelo also designed the Medici Chapel. Here is a picture of that.
Niccolo Machiavelli:
He was a political strategist from the renaissances, May 3, 1469- June 21, 1527. After Florence was restored to a republic, Machiavelli was placed on the council. He was in charge of diplomatic negotiations and the military. His services were like a mix between the Armed Services committee and the in today’s Senate and Congress.
He commanded Florence’s militia when the Medici family retook Florence. He was exiled afterwards. This is when he started writing books on political theory. He wrote two infuenctial books, one was called The Prince and the other was Discourses of Livy . It is from The Prince that we get the famous quote: "It is best to be both feared and loved; however, if one cannot be both it is better to be feared than loved."
I first became interested in Filippo Brunelleschi when his name was mentioned in the reading. I followed the link from the Renaissance page, and I found some interesting details. First of all, he was from Florence, Italy. He started as a goldsmith. He became interested in math and architecture, so he started building houses and other buildings. When he continued his studies, he chose to abandon goldsmithing and study architecture instead. When he died at the age of 69 he was buried under the floor of the Cathedral of Florence. He is considered to be one of the best Italian Renaissance architects. A lot of what he known for building was churches and cathedrals. He also constructed a hospital. The thing he is most famous for appears to be the dome of the Cathedral of Florence. His life and works led me to wonder several things:
Was it easy to change a potential profession during the Renaissance? It sounds like was able to just switch to becoming an architect. How common was that? I would have thought that the professions the people were trained in would be more set in stone.
Were the important buildings of the time all centered around religion? If not, what sort of buildings were equally important as the churches?
How much say did Filippo Brunelleschi have in the buildings he created? Was he able to say, "Hey, let's build a cathedral over there," or did he have to do what was asked of him?
Where did he want to be buried? Did they have to dig a hole in the middle of the cathedral and then repair it? Was that what he would have wanted?
I know that the artists of the renaissance are a big thing so I decided to research them. As I was looking found good sites for http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/michelangelo.html MICHELANGELO also I found one http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/raphael.html RAPHAEL. I did my world arts project on Raphael, so I thought that was interesting. http://library.thinkquest.org/2838/artgal.htm This is a good link to information about all the artists.
(sorry my computer wouldn't let me post with linked text.)
I decided to learn more about one of the architects in the Renaissance. I chose Leon Battista Alberti. Besides being an architect he was also an author, artist, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer. He was also a humanist like the reading the other day mentioned many during the Renaissance were. He had a broad range of knowledge in many subjects including the arts, sciences, and math. He uses this knowledge to create a treatise named De pictura (On painting) which discusses perspective in art. I found this interesting because having just attempted to paint a renaissance painting it is quite a bit harder with perspective and some of the other advances made during the renaissance. However the method still wasn't perfected. This website shows how the early renaissance method of perspective still wasn't perfect.
So I researched Nicolaus Copernicus.
I've never heard of him before, and I found out that he is considered the founder of astronomy. He was a POLISH Renaissance man, which I found interesting because I don't think of Poland when I think of the Renaissance.
Nicolaus was the first person to consider the Earth not being in the center of the universe. He thought of the sun to be the center of the universe. He spent his whole life writing a book about his work in astronomy, but he never got to see it published. At his funeral, the first published copy of his book was placed into his hands (representing his life's work).
I thought it was interesting that I've never heard of this guy, especially since he's such a big deal in the field of science (astronomy).
The question I had was... Did this book of his cause any contreversy? Especially within the church is what I'm thinking, because the church was known for giving scientists with new discoveries a hard time, back then.
Here's a good site by Stanford with a detailed description of Nicolaus Copernicus.
Hannah find this cool website and I thought I'd share it with you guys.
It just talks about Leonardo DiVinci being left-handed.
After reading the first reading, I looked at the artists, and the one that I chose to look at was Raphael. While I was looking at the Raphael page, it stated several of his accomplishments, and most of them were paintings. While looking at the titles of the paintings, I saw that several of them involved the word Madonna in them. I was curious why Madonna was painted with religious figures.Madonna was like a mother figure, this is what I figured out.
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