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Life in the Renaissance

it was harder on the peasants, who literally worked sunup to sundown (Renaissance-Out of the Middle Ages, 2008). There was a small...

'Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance'

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

Renaissance Women’s Writings

to his demands because she was "a dutiful daughter" (Life and Death in a Venetian Convent 26). AS a dutiful daughter she did as sh...

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

Time Capsule: Renaissance & The Age Of Baroque

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...

Women's Rights: How Small Strides were Made During the Renaissance

not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...

Erasmus/Praise of Folly

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

Ghiberti., Reliefs, and the Renaissance

In the story one can see the unique style, and the power of his art that would forever serve to influence relief sculpture of the ...

Leonardo da Vinci as a Renaissance Man Par Excellence

received by his Florentine father (Craven 83-84). From the earliest age, young Leonardo exhibited what appeared to be an endless ...

Early and High Renaissance

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

Lute in Renaissance Music

woodworkers who practiced their craft in northern Italian cities crafted lutes that generally had "six courses and pear shaped bod...

Renaissance and Baroque

instrument and during the Renaissance period flutes and reed instruments were widely used. One author notes, "The basic reed instr...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

Michelangelo and Bernini/Statues of David

writing that the primary motivation behind Michelangelos sculpture was "the expression of thought in stone" (Burns 412). Furthermo...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

Various Renaissance Periods

Introduction In world history there have been times of great growth and change, often referred to as renaissance periods. While m...

Analytical Analysis of Renaissance Art

obtained the quality he called "grazia," which he used to describe a "kind of perfect divine beauty" (Witcombe). A work of art cam...

A Rethinking of the Value of Nuclear Power

The April 2011 Japanese Earthquakes and the resulting Fukushima...

Brunelleschi and Early Renaissance Architecture

This research paper discusses the career of Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), his buildings and his influence on architecture at t...

The Mona Lisa

to be the quintessential example of a Renaissance man, as his talents encompassed a breadth of subjects, from art and sculpture to...

Politics in the English Renaissance Plays

mimicry and metaphor (Braunmuller and Hattaway 93; Kennedy 64). It is interesting to note that drama was using similar tools othe...

Chris Matthews/Hardball

with the name of Chris Matthews because this is the name of the MSNBC television show on which Matthews appears as the host. Howev...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

Dance Music in Musical History

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

1968 Film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli

In three pages this paper examines the filmmaker's various cinematic techniques and include elements such as utilizing teenage act...

Italy During the Renaissance Era and the Roles Played by Nonelites and Women

result, court mistresses commonly took on the role of both lover and confidant, creating a lineage through childbearing that suppo...

Italian Renaissance and Humanism

In five pages the Italian Renaissance is examined in a consideration of how humanism affected Medieval thinking, religion, and soc...

Judaism During the Renaissance

In five pages this examines the Renaissance period with the focus being upon Judaism's art and culture with the faith and treatmen...