The impact of the Renaissance on Europe Jacob Burckhardt best describes the renaissance as the prototype of the modern world‚ for it was the period between the fourteenth and fifteenth century in Italy‚ when the base of modern civilisation was formed. It was mainly through the revival of ancient learning that new scientific values first began to overthrow traditional religious beliefs. People started to accept a new rational and objective approach to reality and most
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Images offer a powerful way to communicate. A single image can relate more to a person than text can. An artist can create a piece of artwork to express how he or she feels or how they see something. Over time the art that was created long ago can change meaning from what the artist originally intended and the perception can change as well‚ either through mystification or personal experiences. Author John Berger in his book Ways of Seeing writes about the various ways in which this can happen. By
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religious subjects and used a realistic style copied from classical models. The Renaissance made Greek and Roman subject popular too. Techniques included the glorification of the human body‚ perspective‚ and expressions. Artists like Michelangelo‚ Donatello‚ Leonardo da Vinci‚ and Raphael placed a role in Renaissance art. For literature‚ the techniques that the writers used during the Renaissance are still used today. These writers “wrote about self-expressions or to portray the individuality of their
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Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable
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Many modern artists use high technology equipment in their works. Whereas traditionally artists used a pencil or brush to make beautiful works of art‚ artists in the early twenty-first century are now using sound‚ video or computer generated images. Digital art developed from simple patterns and shapes made using computer programs to finished works of art which can look as realistic as a watercolour or oil painting. Modern art exhibitions often include more videos and installations than traditional
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Hello everyone‚ my name is Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici ‚ eldest son of the late Lorenzo de’ Medici. I’d like to start off by graciously thanking all of you for being here today‚ to celebrate my father’s life and legacy. As I look into this great crowd‚ it gives me joy to see many familier faces who I’ve come to know over the years. My father was very lucky to have an abundance of loving friends‚ family‚ and supporters who stayed with him through the bright and dark times. I would also like to say
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A Study in Portraits – da Vinci and Van Gogh Two of the greatest artists of all time would have to be Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) and Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890). Da Vinci was an artistic genius‚ as well as an ingenious inventor and scientist‚ while Van Gogh was an artistic savant whose mental instability cut short a career of wonder and enlightenment. Both artists presented works that made people look both outside at the artwork itself as well as inside the individual viewer in order
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Picasso Desmoiselles d’Avignon Paul Klee They’re Biting Michelangelo Last Judgement Greek Marathon Boy Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel Cindy Sherman Untitled (Self-Portrait of Marilyn Monroe) Francis Bacon Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X Willem Claesz Heda Still Life with Oysters‚ a Silver Tazza‚ and Glassware Paul Cezanne Still Life with Basket of Apples Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Cans Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper Janine Antoni Gnaw Austrian/Gravettian
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IAKT Have you ever heard of the Middle Ages and The Renaissance? The middle ages were a period in time where everything was based off the feudal system. The renaissance were a period where everything was changing like a “rebirth”. It can be hard to think about which one became more important or more interesting to know about. People in those time periods were confused on which period they would stick to the most. There are also many ways these two periods changed the world today. The middle
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extended north to all of Europe. Promoted by the invention of the printing press‚ which caused an upsurge of the availability of books and other reading materials. Art was looked upon as its own branch of knowledge starting in the Renaissance. And as Michelangelo‚ da Vinci‚ and others became famous‚ people started to look at them‚ not just as skilled artisans (as they were called at that time)‚ but also as brilliant and imaginative artists‚ some people even called them geniuses. So‚ it was then in the Renaissance
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