Republic of Florence

slingshot against the larger and stronger Goliath. Some people say Michelangelo’s “David” is the most beautiful statue ever created. It was placed in the center of Florence as a symbol of the republic. Michelangelo wrote, “Archways were torn down, narrow streets were widened… it took forty men five days to move it. Once in place, all Florence was…

Such people like Dante Aligheri, Niccolo` Machiavelli, and Girolamo Savonarola were key components in this respect. Dante Alifgheri was born in Florence, in the year 1285, were he lived a normal life until adulthood. He was exiled when a opposing family took control of Florence, which was extending for the rest of his life. During this time however, he started to work on the influential works that would define him and the Renaissance, one going by the name of…

At the age of 26 yrs, Michelangelo takes a trip to Florence to inspect the block. Totally uninhibited by the blocks dimensions, he had developed a technique based on the integrity of the single block, takes the measurements and conceives the image of David within that is within the block. In as much of his success as a sculptor in Bologna Rome, he was not proven to be so in the city of Florence. He was not considered but due to his brilliance in selling himself he was given…

in Europe. Actually Renaissance architecture pursues or follows the Gothic architecture and. The Renaissance architecture can also be described as the renewal and development thought material and culture. Renaissance architecture was developed in Florence, Italy with Filippo Brunelleschi whom we will talk later, one of its finest architects of that period. Brunelleschi used mathematical and geometrical calculations in his designs and he was known as one of the first architects to use it. His…

subjects and friends. Machiavelli executes his claims successfully through the use of rhetorical appeals portrayed in this treatise. Soon after the Medici family defeated the Republic of Florence armed forces’, the government dwindled. Once the regime changed, Niccolo Machiavelli, the Second Chancellor of the Republic of Florence, fell under serious false accusations of conspiring…

Florence Duomo Historical Background Information Around 1415, Filippo Brunelleschi competed for the chance to build the dome of the Florence Duomo. Florence was home to many talented artists, and all of them entered competitions to build or design various buildings around the city. Just a few years before, Brunelleschi had competed to design the bronze doors on the baptistery, but lost the competition to Lorenzo Ghiberti. Along with Ghiberti and Michelangelo, Brunelleschi built a model of what…

of his later works as an artist. He had no formal education past the basic reading, writing and math, but his father could see he had artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 to a famous sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, of Florence. For ten years he worked with Verrocchio refining his skills and gaining a lot of experience with painting and sculpture. When he was 20, the painters’…

I took a vacation to Italy. There was a lot of beautiful scenery, wonderful food, and so much more. I visited Rome, Venice, and Florence, went to the beaches, ate lots of Italian food, and went June 18-25th so it would not be too hot or too cold. First, I had to figure out what all I needed for my trip to Italy, I discovered I had to get a passport to even enter the country.” Passports should have at least six months remaining validity beyond your departure date. U.S. citizens may enter Italy…

Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469 in a town called Florence Italy. He was known to have a great education and he was a great writer and reader.Machiavelli saw the struggles the french had during the french invasion in 1493 when the medici fled . In 1498 he became secretary of the Ten he had held this until fall in 1512. Machiavelli was employed in a great variety of missions. He did a mission for the Emperor Maximilian. And machiavelli did four more more for france. The dispatches during…

Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was born on March 6,1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. Died on February 18, 1564 at the age of 88 in Papal States, Rome. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. He was the first artist who was recognized during his life time. He is also the first western artist whose biography was published when he is still alive. During…